Johan R. Edelheim BHRM (VHRO, Fin), PgC.VET (Åbo Akademi, Fin), PgC.HE (MQU), PgDip.Tour (MGSM), MBA (MGSM), PhD (MQU) Johan joined Southern Cross University in 2004, after four years at Macquarie University/ICTHM in Sydney, and before that lecturing in Finland. He lectures currently in a range of hospitality and tourism units at undergraduate level with the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management. Before turning to academia, Johan worked in the hotel industry in his native Finland, as well as in Sweden, Germany, Spain and the USA for 11 years. While finishing his MBA studies in 2002, Johan grew discontent with general management theory and decided to undertake his PhD study at Macquarie University’s department of Critical and Cultural Studies instead. His thesis, named ‘The Bushranger and the Big Banana – A cultural studies critique of tourism studies’ is critically evaluating the phenomenological experience of - and narratives surrounding - tourist attractions. Johan’s research interests are divided between two separate areas, Post-structural studies of tourism on the one hand and Hotel and resort management practice and education on the other. While the first mentioned is abstract and aims at critically evaluating tourism research and practice from a non-positivist perspective, the other is more practical and involves concrete management actions in the hotel industry and in the field of education.
Journal articles
Effective use of simulations in hospitality-management education – a case study (with Daisuke Ueda), Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education (2007)
Simulations are widely used tools today, not only as analytical applications to support decisions but...
Hidden messages – a polysemic reading of tourist brochures, Journal of Vacation Marketing (2007)
It is self-evident that tourist brochures are selling a positive and attractive destination to travellers;...
Book chapters
To experience the ‘real’ Australia – a liminal authentic cultural experience, Indigenous Tourism – the commodification and management of culture (2005)
This paper will pose the question: If a nation’s icons are not true representations of...
Occasional papers
Destination choice - visitor behaviours in a coastal tourism destination on Australia’s east coast (Occasional paper) (with Don Fuller, D Bruce Armstrong, Janet Hanlan, Simon J. Wilde, and Stephen Mason), Center for Enterprise Development and Research, Occasional Paper (2005)
Reports
Coffs Coast visitor survey (with D Bruce Armstrong, Stephen Mason, Don Fuller, and Simon J. Wilde), Coffs Coast Tourism Association (2005)
Conference publications
What the bloody hell is a touristic terra nullius?, Proceedings of the 18th Annual CAUTHE Conference (2008)
This paper suggests that tourist attractions might act as powerful agents in forming and forging...
A touristic terra nullius, The 2007 ACRAWSA conference, Transforming Bodies, Nations & Knowledges (2007)
Sustaining healthy destinations – what cultural studies can offer tourism studies, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) Annual Conference (2007)
Hegemonic messages in tourist brochures, Proceedings of the 2006 Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) B O'Mahony & P. Whitelaw (eds) (2006)
The experience of the bandit, Third Asia Pacific Forum for Graduate Students Research in Tourism, Beijing International Studies University (2004)
The methodology used in this study is hermeneutic phenomenology as the intention is to show...