Keynote Speakers

Professor Nancy McGehee

Virginia Tech

USA

Nancy is the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Virginia Tech and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Travel Research. She is an internationally recognised tourism scholar whose research spans community-centred tourism development, transformative and regenerative tourism, volunteer tourism, sustainability, and the intersections of race, class and gender.

Professor Donna Chambers

Independent Scholar and Visiting Professor,

Critical Studies in tourism, leisure and culture,

University of the Commonwealth Caribbean

Donna is Professor of Critical Cultural Studies at Northumbria University and an internationally recognised critical tourism scholar. Her research examines representations of people and places through tourism, drawing particularly

on postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, critical race theory and Black feminist theory.

Dr Bernadette Quinn

Technological University

Dublin, Ireland

Dr Bernadette Quinn is a Human Geographer and Senior Lecturer in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Technological University Dublin, Ireland. She has written extensively about arts festivals and cultural events, being interested in the roles that they play in transforming space, reproducing place and shaping identities. Her work is widely published in international tourism and geography journals and edited collections.

Professor Mindy Blaise

Edith Cowan University

Australia

Mindy is a Vice Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for People, Place and Planet at Edith Cowan University. She is a transdisciplinary scholar whose work brings together feminist, anticolonial, environmental and place-based approaches. Her research is particularly concerned with relationships between people, place, Country and the more-than-human world.

Conference Host

Western Sydney University

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