Dr Vicki Peel

Lecturer, Graduate Tourism Program

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As Co-Director of the Master of Tourism, Vicki’s approach to teaching and program management has reflected an obligation to deliver a high level professional tourism degree directed at positive learning and career outcomes for all students. She firmly believes in the importance of students’ integration with the industry during their course and the educational value of fieldwork for all students aiming for a successful career in tourism.

Vicki has a research reputation in the combined fields of Australian Studies and Tourism, with particular emphasis on Cultural Tourism, the Backpacker and Student Tourism markets. Across these interdisciplinary interests, Vicki’s research themes have consistently addressed issues of historical and contemporary educational and youth travel experience and the spatial relationship and dynamic that underpins tourism at heritage places. Most recently, Vicki has researched as part of an Australian wide team on cultural tourism projects funded by the Sustainable Tourism Centre for Cooperative Research. These studies explored the landscape, commercial application and stakeholder role of Cultural Tourism development in Australia. She has provided professional commentary in areas of Tourism for the Age, the Herald Sun and CNNN Asia and referees for journals including Tourism Management, Tourism, Culture and Communication and the Journal of Australian Studies. 

Since 2000, Vicki has also played a significant role in the transition activities of international students to an Australian university through a secondment position as Director, Study Abroad, for the Faculty and as co-coordinator of the Faculty’s second largest postgraduate coursework program, the Master of Tourism.

Publications

Peel, V. (2001). Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School: A History, Halstead Press, Sydney, xv + 312pp.

Peel, V and Jarvis, J. (2008) ‘Study Backpackers: Australia’s short-stay international student travellers’ Hannam, K and Ateljevic, I,  Backpacker Tourism: Concepts and Profiles, Channel View Publications.

Peel, V and Steen, A. (2007) ‘Victims, Hooligans and Cashcows: Backpackers and Media Representation in Australia’, Tourism Management, 28(4).

Peel, V. and Hughes, M., Carlsen, J., Frost, W. and Pocock, C. (2007) ‘Key success factors and information availability in heritage tourism operations’. Tourism: past achievement, future challenges, (refereed conference proceedings), CAUTHE

Peel, V and Frost, W. (2006). ‘Cultural Heritage and  Regional Tourism in the Victorian Goldfields",  Heritage and Regional Development ANZRAI

Peel, V. (2006)‘The Team Player: Lindsay Thompson’, Costar, B. & Strangio,P, The Victorian Premiers, Federation Press, Vic.

Peel, V., Maher, J., Lindsay, J., Twomey, C. (2006) ‘Peer mentoring as academic resource: or ‘my friend says’. Australian Universities Review, 48 (2)

Peel, V. & Jarvis J. (2005). ‘The  Backpacker Boon’, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, Around the Globe, Autumn, vol. 3.

Peel, V. (2004). ‘Classroom Tourists: study-abroad students and Australian studies’ in Carter, D., Darian-Smith, K. & Worby, G. Thinking Australian Studies: teaching across cultures, UQP.