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Dr Richard Aquino

Contact

Department: Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Email: richard.aquino@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690487

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Languages: English, Filipino

I use critical and community-engaged approaches in studying tourism and social entrepreneurship to make tourism sustainable for local communities.
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Research / Creative works
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Fields of Research

  • Sustainable tourism
  • Tourism planning and development
  • Community development
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Tourist behaviour
  • Tourism impacts

Researcher Summary

My research interests include tourism for sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, community development, tourism impact assessment, tourist behaviour, and decolonising tourism knowledge production.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Management, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, International Business and Other Business: Entrepreneurship
  • Marketing and Tourism: Consumer Behaviour
  • Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work, Criminology and Gender Studies: Social Science

Resources

  • LinkedIn

Prizes and Awards

    Distinction
  • Faculty of Culture and Society Dean's Award for Doctoral Achievement ( 2020 - present )
  • AUT Vice-Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship ( 2017 - 2020)
  • New Zealand ASEAN Scholar Award ( 2013 - present )
  • Best Paper Award, Council of Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference 2018 ( 2018 - present )

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles
  • Aquino R. (2022) Community change through tourism social entrepreneurship. Annals of Tourism Research 95 103442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103442.
  • Aquino R., Lück M. and Schänzel H. (2022) Mapping the outcomes of social entrepreneurship and tourism on host communities: a three-dimensional approach. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 30(8): 1799-1820. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2021.1986515.
  • Doan T., Aquino R. and Qi H. (2022) Homestay businesses’ strategies for adapting to and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic: A study in Vietnam. Tourism and Hospitality Research : 146735842211031-146735842211031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14673584221103185.
  • Lengauer D., Trupp A. and Aquino RS. (2022) Editorial. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 15(1): 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0070.
  • Prayag G., Aquino RS., Hall CM., Chen N. and Fieger P. (2022) Is Gen Z really that different? Environmental attitudes, travel behaviours and sustainability practices of international tourists to Canterbury, New Zealand. Journal of Sustainable Tourism http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2022.2131795.
  • Aquino RS. (2019) Towards decolonising tourism and hospitality research in the Philippines. Tourism Management Perspectives 31: 72-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2019.03.014.
  • Aquino RS., Schänzel HA. and Hyde KF. (2019) Analysing Push and Pull Motives for Volcano Tourism at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. Geoheritage 11(1): 177-191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12371-017-0254-z.
  • Aquino RS., Lück M. and Schänzel HA. (2018) A conceptual framework of tourism social entrepreneurship for sustainable community development. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 37: 23-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2018.09.001.
  • Aquino RS., Schänzel HA. and Hyde KF. (2018) Unearthing the geotourism experience: Geotourist perspectives at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. Tourist Studies 18(1): 41-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797617717465.
  • Aquino RS., Tuazon GP., Yap TW. and David IBM. (2017) In search of greener pastures? Investigating Filipino tourism and hospitality management students’ willingness to work overseas. Asia-Pacific Journal of Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism 6(2): 81-90.
Edited Volumes
  • Aquino R; Porter B (Ed.) (2022) Tourism in the Philippines: Applied Management Perspectives. Springer Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4497-0.
  • Aquino R; Porter B (Ed.) (2022) Tourism in the Philippines: Communities, Hosts and Guests. Springer Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4013-2.
Chapters
  • Aquino R. and Porter B. (2022) Contemporary Issues in Tourism Management in the Philippines. In Aquino R; Porter B (Ed.), Tourism in the Philippines: Applied Management Perspectives: 3-19.Springer Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4497-0_1.
  • Aquino R. and Porter B. (2022) Tourism in the Philippine Society: Conclusions and Looking Forward. In Aquino R; Porter B (Ed.), Tourism in the Philippines: Communities, Hosts and Guests: 171-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4013-2_10.
  • Aquino R. and Porter B. (2022) Tourism in the Philippines Through the Gaze of Communities, Hosts and Guests. In Aquino R; Porter B (Ed.), Tourism in the Philippines: Communities, Hosts and Guests: 3-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4013-2_1.
  • Aquino R. and Porter B. (2022) Tourism in the Philippines: Conclusions and Implications for Management. In Aquino R; Porter B (Ed.), Tourism in the Philippines: Applied Management Perspectives: 183-190.Springer Singapore. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4497-0_10.
  • Boluk K. and Aquino R. (2022) Assessing the impacts of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises in tourism. In Stofellen A; Ioannides D (Ed.), Handbook of Tourism Impacts: Social and Environmental Perspectives: 117-133. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800377684.00018.
  • Aquino R. (2021) Performing and negotiating Filipino masculinities in the field. In Porter B; Schanzel H; Cheer J (Ed.), Masculinities in the field: Tourism and transdisciplinary research: 71-84. Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications.
  • Lück M. and Aquino R. (2021) Domestic Nature-Based Tourism and Wellbeing: A Roadmap for the New Normal? In Wilks J; Pendergast D; Leggat P; Morgan D (Ed.), Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the New Normal: 269-292.Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5415-2_11.
  • Aquino RS. and Rivera JPR. (2018) Chapter 8: Public–private partnership framework for sustainable geopark development. Handbook of Geotourism: 111-125.Edward Elgar Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785368868.00018.
  • Aquino R., Schanzel H. and Hyde K. (2016) Expectations for a volcano tourism experience: Visitor perspectives at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. In Luck M; Ritalahti J; Scherer A (Ed.), International perspectives on destination management and tourist experiences: Insights from the International Competence Network of Tourism Research and Education (ICNT): 125-140. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang GmbH. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-06985-3.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Aquino R., Lueck M. and Schanzel H. (2020) The outcomes of tourism social entrepreneurship: Host community perspectives. In Williamson D; Harkison T; Brothers T; Jose P (Eds). CAUTHE 2020: 20:20 Vision: New Perspectives on the Diversity of Hospitality, Tourism and Events: 547-549.
  • Aquino R., Schanzel H. and Lueck M. (2020) Taking charge of tourism - Tourism social entrepreneurial processes in Culion Island, Philippines. In Dredge D; Phi G (Eds). TEFI Symposium and Walking Workshop Proceedings: 26-27.
  • Schanzel H., Aquino R. and Lueck M. (2020) A host-community’s journey from non-participation to participation in surfing tourism. In 2nd International Conference of Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific - Tourism in Troubled Times: Responsibility, Resistance and Resurgence in the Asia Pacific - Book of Abstracts: 58-58.
  • Aquino R., Lueck M. and Schanzel H. (2019) Towards inclusive economic development? Tourism entrepreneurship and community participation in a surfing tourism destination in Zambales, Philippines. In Abstracts: Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals Conference: 3-3. Massey University.
  • Aquino R., Lueck M. and Schanzel HA. (2018) Tourism social entrepreneurship for sustainable community development: Review and conceptual framework. In CAUTHE 2018: Get Smart: Paradoxes and Possibilities in Tourism, Hospitality and Events: 359-369.
  • Aquino R. (2017) Exploring tourism social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for community development in the Philippines. In 11th Annual Conference of ICNT Proceedings: Ecotourism in the 21st Century.
Other
  • Aquino R. (2022) Social Entrepreneurship. In Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800377486.social.entrepreneurship.
  • Aquino R. (2021) Book Review: Social Tourism: Global Challenges and Approaches, J. Lima, C. Eusébio (Eds.), CABI, Wallingford (2021), xi + 193 pp. ISBN-13: 9781789241211. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 49: 285-286. Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.09.020.
  • Aquino R. (2020) Book Review: Dolezal, C., Trupp, A., & Bui, H. T. (Eds.). (2020). Tourism and development in Southeast Asia.. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 13: 161-164. Gesellschaft für Südostasienwissenschaften/Society for South-East Asian Studies, Vienna. http://dx.doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0035.
  • Aquino R. (2019) [Review of book Transforming travel: Realising the potential of sustainable tourism, by J. Smith]. Journal of Ecotourism 18: 193-195. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14724049.2018.1465258.
  • Aquino R. (2015) Understanding visitor perspectives on volcano tourism at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines: A mixed methods study. .

Student Supervision

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    Current
  • PhD - Ju X: Tourism Lifestyle Migration and Entrepreneurship in Hainan Island: Taking a Chinese Family Perspective
  • Masters - Noordanus L: The Role of Entrepreneurial Marketing (EM) in SME Performance in a Pandemic Setting
  • Completed
  • Masters - Dinh M: Photography in Tourism: Vietnamese Travellers’ Photographs and Narrative-sharing on the Destination Image of Northwest Vietnam (2021)

Editorial Work

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  • Tourism in Marine Environments Section Editor ( 2021 - 2023)
  • Advances in Southeast Asian Studies Editor ( 2020 - 2023)

Review and Refereeing

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  • Advances in Southeast Asian Studies ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Annals of Tourism Research ( 2021 - 2023)
  • APN Science Bulletin ( 2022 - 2023)
  • Asia Pacific Viewpoint ( 2022 - 2023)
  • Current Issues in Tourism ( 2021 - 2023)
  • E-review of Tourism Research ( 2018 - 2023)
  • Journal of Development Studies ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Journal of Ecotourism ( 2018 - 2023)
  • Journal of Ecotourism ( 2017 - 2023)
  • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism ( 2019 - 2023)
  • Journal of Tourism Futures ( 2018 - 2023)
  • Ocean and Coastal Management ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Regional Studies ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Social Enterprise Journal ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Tourism Geographies: an international journal of tourism place, space and the environment ( 2021 - 2023)
  • Tourism in Marine Environments ( 2016 - 2023)
  • Tourism Management ( 2016 - 2023)
  • Tourism Management Perspectives ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Tourism Recreation Research ( 2021 - 2023)

Key Methodologies

  • Grounded theory
  • Participatory research methods
  • Community asset mapping
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