Alice Graeupl

personal information

Biography

School of Hospitality and Tourism Faculty of Applied Humanities Auckland University of Technology Auckland New Zealand	Phone: 649 921 9999 Email: alice.graeupl@aut.ac.nz
I was born and raised in Austria, where I attended a High School with focus on Tourism studies. After I finished school, I went to the UK to complete my BA(Hons) in Tourism at the University of Derby. Not entirely sure of what to do next I decided to enrol in a Masters programme and graduated a year later with an MA in Tourism Management. During my Masters year, I found an interest in Tourism and Information Technology issues and decided to write my MA dissertation about a related topic. After I finished, I was still intrigued with IT issues, especially the Internet and relating consumer aspects and issues. When I was offered to stay on at university to study for a PhD, I gladly accepted and decided to study the use of the Internet in tourism related studies more in-depth. I decided to use a niche market – the grey market – as the focus for my PhD thesis, which concentrates on online decision-making (especially information search aspects) and information provision in tourism. I hope to submit my thesis in later 2005. I moved to Auckland to fill the position of a Lecturer of Travel & Tourism at AUT in early 2005 Qualifications: BA(Hons) in Tourism; 1999; University of Derby, U.K. MA in Tourism Management; 2000; University of Derby, U.K. PhD Thesis title: ‘Systems of leisure travel information provision and use: the 'grey market' and the Internet’

Publications

Books

2007
Lück, M.; A.Gräupl; J.Auyong; M.L.Miller & M.B.Orams (eds.) (2007). Proceedings of the 5th International Coastal & Marine Tourism Congress. School of Hospitality & Tourism and New Zealand Tourism Research Institute, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand.

Book chapters

2005
Mason, D. & Milne, S. (2005), "Generating agritourism options in the Caribbean: a cost effective model", in Jayawardena, C. (ed.), Caribbean Tourism: More than Sun, Sand and Sea, Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica, WI. Vol 1( 7), 61-75