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Heike Annette Schänzel (born 1966) is a German–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor in the School of Hospital and Tourism at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in research on gender and family issues in tourism.

Academic career

Schänzel grew up in Germany and worked as a travel consultant, but moved to New Zealand after enjoying a motorbike touring holiday there in the 1990s. She completed a PhD titled Family Time and Own Time on Holiday: Generation, Gender, and Group Dynamic Perspectives from New Zealand at Victoria University of Wellington. Her thesis won the inaugural Dean's award in the School of Management. Schänzel then joined the faculty at Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor from January 2024.

Schänzel's research is focused on exploring how tourism and hospitality relate to intergenerational relationships and gender. This involves looking at issues such as feminism, childism, sustainability and social justice in tourism. She has also published on the sexual politics of tourism research, and the risks for women, LGBTQ researchers and people from ethnic minorities in undertaking tourism geography fieldwork. Schänzel has co-edited six books, including Children, Families and Leisure in 2018, Tourism Education and Asia in 2019, and Masculinities in the Field: Tourism and Transdisciplinary Research in 2021. She has published forty book chapters and supervised more than thirty postgraduate theses.

Schänzel is the chief co-editor of the specialty journal Social Impact of Tourism.

Selected works

• Heike A. Schänzel; Alison J. McIntosh (February 2000). "An Insight into the Personal and Emotive Context of Wildlife Viewing at the Penguin Place, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand". Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 8 (1): 36–52. doi:10.1080/09669580008667348. ISSN 0966-9582. Wikidata Q123455679.
• Richard S. Aquino; Michael Lück; Heike A. Schänzel (December 2018). "A conceptual framework of tourism social entrepreneurship for sustainable community development". Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. 37: 23–32. doi:10.1016/J.JHTM.2018.09.001. ISSN 1447-6770. Wikidata Q123455648.
• Heike A. Schänzel; Ian Yeoman (16 March 2015). "Trends in family tourism". Journal of Tourism Futures. 1 (2): 141–147. doi:10.1108/JTF-12-2014-0006. ISSN 2055-592X. Wikidata Q123455662.
• Heike A. Schänzel; Karen A. Smith (15 March 2014). "The Socialization of Families Away from Home: Group Dynamics and Family Functioning on Holiday". Leisure Sciences. 36 (2): 126–143. doi:10.1080/01490400.2013.857624. ISSN 0149-0400. Wikidata Q60512853.
• Heike A. Schänzel; Karen A. Smith (July 2011). "The absence of fatherhood: achieving true gender scholarship in family tourism research". Annals of leisure research. 14 (2–3): 143–154. doi:10.1080/11745398.2011.615712. ISSN 1174-5398. Wikidata Q58283700.
• Heike A. Schänzel; Karen A. Smith (January 2011). "Photography and Children: Auto-driven Photo-elicitation". Tourism Recreation Research. 36 (1): 81–85. doi:10.1080/02508281.2011.11081664. ISSN 0250-8281. Wikidata Q60512881.

References

1. Schaenzel, Heike Annette. Family Time and Own Time on Holiday: Generation, Gender, and Group Dynamic Perspectives from New Zealand (PhD thesis). Open Access Repository, Victoria University of Wellington.
2. Victoria University of Wellington School of Management (6 April 2011). "Dean's Award for Doctoral Achievement in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration".
3. ^ Auckland University of Technology. "Academic profile: Heike Schänzel". academics.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
4. "New Professors and Associate Professors – AUT News – AUT". www.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
5. Schänzel, Heike A.; Porter, Brooke A. (19 May 2023). "Sexual politics in the field: gendered research spaces in tourism geographies". Tourism Geographies. 25 (4): 1085–1103. doi:10.1080/14616688.2022.2077426. ISSN 1461-6688.

External links

• Podcast episode Sexual politics in the field: gendered research spaces in tourism geographies (2 Dec 2022)

• 1966 births
• Living people
• German emigrants to New Zealand
• New Zealand academics
• New Zealand women academics
• Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology
• Tourism researchers
• Victoria University of Wellington alumni