Qualifications 

PhD Griffith University Environmental Economics 2006 

M.RegSci University of Queensland Regional Economics 1996 

PGCE Exeter University Education 1984 

BA Hons University of Kent Human Movement Studies 1983 

Dr Mike Raybould joined Bond University in 2009 from Griffith University where he has
taught, among other things; tourism economics, service operations management, project
management, and event management. 

Mike's PhD was completed in environmental economics and the thesis investigated
information effects in valuation of non-market environmental goods. His research and
consultancy interests lie primarily in tourism and environmental economics and he has
published a number of papers related to evaluation of tourism events, hospitality
management, and tourism and hospitality management curriculum development in
international journals. 

In the distant past Mike worked in the leisure and recreation industries in Australia,
the UK and USA and, prior to joining academia, he worked for Hilton Hotels Corporation in
the human resource department of a major casino hotel property.

Articles

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Burnout and perceived organisational support among frontline hospitality employees (with Gabrielle Walters), Journal of hospitality and tourism management (2007)

This article describes research designed to investigate the relationship between burnout and perceived organisational support...

 

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Generic skills for hospitality management: A comparative study of management expectations and student perceptions (with Hugh Wilkins), Journal of hospitality and tourism management (2006)

Tertiary providers of hospitality management degree programs must fulfil the needs of student, industry and...

 

Over qualified and under experienced – Turning graduates into hospitality managers (with Hugh Wilkins), International journal of contemporary hospitality management (2005)

Purpose – This paper sets out to report on research that investigated hospitality managers' expectations...

 

Conference Papers

Triple bottom line event evaluation: A proposed framework for holistic event evaluation (with Liz Fredline, Leo Jago, and Marg Deery), Third International Event Conference, The Impacts of Events: Triple Bottom Line Evaluation and Event Legacies (2005)

Although there has long been an interest in measuring the economic impacts of events, it...