Aims

Our Aims Are

To create an interdisciplinary / transdisciplinary environment that seeks research excellence, policy relevance and which critically engages all stakeholders in the processes, outcomes and meanings of tourism and cultural change;

To offer new and challenging perspectives on the ways in which tourism mobilises and represents culture(s) and the ways by which tourist behaviour and tourism development are shaped by culture;
To assess the implementation of sustainable and economically viable tourism policies and strategies considering the cultural, social, political and economic particularities of host regions and countries;
To develop high quality collaborative synergies with other research institutes, local, regional, national and international agencies involved with the tourism and culture interface;
To work with stakeholders across the tourism and cultural sectors at local, regional, national and international levels in order to facilitate dialogue and mutual understanding and to identify socially appropriate and sustainable economic opportunities associated with the tourism and cultural sectors;

To disseminate the outcomes of research to a wide audience of end-users and to act as a core repository of knowledge, expertise and creative thinking for the tourism and cultural sectors.