Anne Hardy
Associate Professor Anne Hardy is a researcher with a keen interest in tourist behaviour and sustainable tourism and is based at the University of Tasmania in the School of Social Sciences. Her research has been cited over 2500 times and she is the author of over 30 journal articles and three books, the most recent of which is titled Tourist Tracking and Mobility. Some of Anne’s most well-known research is the multiple award-winning project, Tourism Tracer. This project was the first to track tourists, with their consent, for the duration of their holiday throughout entire destinations. Tourism Tracer’s success resulted in changes in the way that destinations such as Tasmania collect visitor information. Since its development, it has been used in many other national and international jurisdictions and has since been commercialised.
Anne’s international and national reputation for innovative, engaged and impact driven tourism research has led to a variety of national and international academic invitations to deliver keynote speeches to both industry and academic audiences. She has worked for the UNWTO, the One planet sustainability initiative and is currently doing research for the Asia Development Bank. She is also beginning a new program of research in Antarctic Tourism. Anne is the co-founder of the Iso-CHATS seminar series. This series is dedicated to sharing the work of tourism researchers across the globe during the COVID pandemic. It rapidly gained a reputation of being a collaborative, social and supportive space for new, emerging and experienced researchers from across the world.
Currently Anne is the Head of the Research in the School of Social Sciences, at the University of Tasmania and a Visiting Fellow at Wakayama University, Japan. She has a passion for ocean swimming and can be found in the cold water of Tasmania a few times per week.
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