Tourism PhD Student Completions
During the past year, over ten students working with the tourism group have successfully defended their PhD theses. Their names and PhD topics are listed below:
| Kai-Lin (Karen) Wu: Who Chooses to Visit Museums? The influence of Children on Family Museum Visiting in Taiwan | |
| Balvinder Kler: Sub-Aquatic Meanings: A Phenomenological Study of Scuba Divers’ Experience of Place | |
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Maureen Ayikoru: The Discursive Construction of Tourism Higher Education in England |
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Shujie Shen: Combination Forecasts of UK Outbound Leisure Tourism Demand |
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King Chong: National tourism policy making process in China post 1978 |
| Yianna Farsari: Sustainable Tourism Policy: Conceptual Framework and Cognitive Mapping | |
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Sang-Hyun Han: Recreation
demand modelling and non-market valuation of cultural heritage
tourist resources. |
Nicholas Jones: Towards
Inter-organizational Management in Tourism. |
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KyoungJin
Kim (Aise): Visitor Interpretation and Sustainable Tourism:
a study of the role of interpretation in influencing attitudes
and behaviour toward environmental conservation. |
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Zheng
Lei: Measuring Regional Economic Effects of Low Cost Carriers
in the UK: a panel data econometric approach. |
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Glen McCartney: Macao’s Destination Image in the East Asia Region after the Liberalisation of it Casino Industry |
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Taketo Naoi: Establishing
a Theory of Visitors’ Evaluation of a Historical District:
Frameworks and Methods. |
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Maria Helena
Pereda: An
Examination of the Impact of Service Quality Dimensions on Students’ Satisfaction
in Higher Education in the UK, (awarded posthumously). |
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Raija
Seppala-Esser: Resource Dependence of Tourism Enterprises:
a study of dependence of tourism SMEs on the resources of national
tourism organisations. |
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Nancy
Stevenson: Policy at the margins: views from Leeds
about local authority tourism policy activity. |














