Mieke Witsel Drs(Amsterdam), MA(Amsterdam), PhD(SCU) Mieke is a lecturer at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University, and is a partner in a courseware development and consultancy firm, Southern Cross Connexxions. She has taught and lectured in interpersonal & business communication, tourism & leisure, and intercultural communication in Australia and Europe for more than 20 years, at various levels of education, ranging from undergraduate to postgraduate and corporate levels. Her previous appointment involved six years as communications lecturer and course coordinator with Holland University's Amsterdam Management School for Tourism and Leisure, where she designed and taught subjects that highlighted the importance of effective communication and cultural sustainability in the successful management of tourism and leisure organisations. The consultancy work has focused strongly on intervention and conflict resolution strategies, language and communication issues. Mieke's research focuses on tourism education, intercultural communication, sustainability and international management issues. Mieke has been a long term member of SCU Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee; and Emerging Technologies Advisory Group. She is the winner of SCU’s 2004 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement (Meeting student needs); and the divisional seeding grant for internationalisation of tourism education project. In addition Mieke received the 2007 Vice Chancellor’s award for teaching excellence (Significantly reducing student attrition in a large common core unit).
Journal articles
Gutsy women? Conflicting discourses in women's travel guidebooks (with Erica Wilson and Louise Holdsworth), Tourism Recreation Research (2009)
There is a growing body of information and advice on offer for contemporary women travellers....
Aircraft contrails contribute to climate change: whole tourism systems are appropriate contexts for research on sustainable tourism (with Neil Leiper and Richard W. Braithwaite), Tourism Analysis (2008)
Environmental activists and concerned scientists have suggested since the 1970s that jet aircrafts' contrails, also...
Leisure travel and business travel: a comparative analysis (with Neil Leiper and Perry Hobson), Asian Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research (2008)
‘‘Leisure travel’ and ‘business travel’ are expressions referring to broad categories of a form of...
Books
Communication in organisations (2nd edn), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Papers (2008)
'The content for this custom publication is drawn from: Bretag / Communication skills for international...
Communication in organisations, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Papers (2007)
'The content for this custom publication is drawn from: Bretag / Communication skills for international...
Interpersonal communication skills in organisations (2nd edn), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Papers (2004)
'Include chapters from the following texts: De Janasz-Dowd-Schneider / Interpersonal skills in organizations [&] Lesikar-Flatley...
Develop teams and individuals (with H Mol), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Papers (2003)
Book chapters
Theses
Transcultural teachers: experiences of academics teaching tourism and hospitality in multicultural and transnational contexts, PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW (2008)
The rapid growth in internationalisation of education has led to the point where Australia has...
Conference publications
Leadership, empowerment and trust development in team teaching, Tales from the Trenches: Teaching and Learning Centre, Southern Cross University (2008)
Mind mapping as a qualitative research tool, School of Tourism & Hospitality Management's Seminar Series (2008)
Sharing experience, SASS Forum – Digital submission and marking of assignments School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University (2008)
Tourism & hospitality academics teaching in transnational and multicultural contexts: where the bloody hell are they? Plenary session, Proceedings of “Where the 'bloody hell' are we?” Tourism and Hospitality Research: 18th Annual Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference (2008)
The ontology of teaching tourism and hospitality in a transcultural context: the voices of four successful academics, Area of Research Strength in Tourism Retreat (2007)
Reports
Report of the working party on international and intercultural perspectives at Southern Cross University (with Michelle Wallace), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Papers (2006)
Implementing internationalisation at Southern Cross University, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Papers (2005)