Staff profile

Dr Ewen Michael

Associate Professor

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Marketing and Tourism and Hospitality

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons) La Trobe, Dip Ed La Trobe, PhD (Economics) La Trobe

Area of study

Tourism and Hospitality Management

Brief profile

Dr Ewen Michael is an Associate Professor in the School of  Management and currently serves as the  Director of Tourism & Hospitality. He is responsible for supervising these disciplines within the School and for developing new coursework postgraduate programmes for these fields of study.

Dr Michael returned to La Trobe University in 1987, after a career in industry and research. In the 1980s he worked as an economic policy analyst and project leader for the Australian Railway Research and Development Organisation Ltd., where he was responsible for conducting a wide range of industry and academic consultancies. After completing his PhD in the School of Economics, he helped to establish the original undergraduate programmes in  Tourism & Hospitality in 1996, and continues to work in those fields.

Dr Michael’s teaching responsibilities include coordinating the economic and policy studies units in the School’s curriculum. In 2001, he was appointed to the editorial board of “Tourism Analysis”, and, in 2004 he helped to establish the “La Trobe University Centre for Public Sector Accountability and Governance” by serving as its Deputy-Director until late 2006. He currently co-ordinates the new master of Tourism programme for the school.

Dr. Michael is a flexible and self-motivated analyst with multi-disciplinary skills in economics, planning and policy. He has written extensively over the past 20 years on issues concerning economic impacts, public policy, transportation, tourism and community services, and on the development of niche markets. His current research is focussed on the development of niche market clusters as a means to enhance regional and urban tourism growth, but he continues to take an active interest in Public Policy.

Research interests

Tourism policy and planning

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Recent publications

Books

E.J. Michael (2007): Micro-Clusters and Networks: The Growth of Tourism, Elsevier, Oxford. ISBN 0080450962

E.J. Michael (2006): Public Policy: The Competitive Framework, Oxford University Press, Melbourne. ISBN 019555526-0

E.J. Michael (2004): The New Foundations for Public Policy, La Trobe University, Bundoora. ISBN 1920948368  

Book Chapter

E.J. Michael: Tourism Clusters, as Chapter 18, in C. Karlsson (Editor) (2008): Handbook of Research on Cluster Theory, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. [Pages 292-305] ISBN 978 1 84542 516 6  

Journal Articles L. Cioccio & E.J. Michael (2007): Hazard or Disaster: Tourism Management for the Inevitable in Northeast Victoria, Tourism Management, Vol. 28, No. 1, Pp. 1-11.

E.J. Michael (2003): Tourism Micro-Clusters, Tourism Economics, Vol. 9, No. 2, Pp. 133-145.

E.J. Michael & B. Singh (2003): Mixed Signals from Kerala’s Improving Health Status, The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 123, No. 1, March, Pp. 33-38.

E.J. Michael & G. Plowman (2002): Mt Stirling: the Politics of Process Failure, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol.10, No 2, Pp. 154 – 169.

E.J. Michael (2002): Antiques and Tourism in Australia, Tourism Management, Vol.23, No.2, Pp. 117 – 125.

E.J. Michael (2001): Public Choice and Tourism Analysis, Current Issues in Tourism, Special Issue: Tourism Policy Making: Theory and Practice, Vol.4, Nos. 2 – 4, Pp. 308 – 330.

Refereed Conference Papers

E.J. Michael (2008): Tourism in Australia – where have all the people gone? in K. Lindroth & M. Voutilainen (Editor): Competition in Tourism: Business and Destination Perspectives: Proceedings of the Travel & Tourism Research Association Europe – 2008 Annual Conference, Helsinki, Finland, April 2008, Pp. 362-371. ISBN 978-91-633-0646-4

E.J. Michael (2007): Shopping, retailing and leisure: Exploring the tourism dimension, in F. Dimanche, (Ed.): Tourism, Mobility and Technology, Proceedings of the Travel and Tourism Research Association Europe, 2007 – Annual Conference, Nice, France, April 2007, Pp. 237-244.

E.J. Michael (2004): Tourism Micro-Clusters; from Principles to Practice, Tourism State of the Art II, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, June 2004. [CD].

E.J. Michael (2003): A Role for Government in the Development of Tourism Micro-Clusters, Riding the Wave of Tourism & Hospitality Research, CAUTHE 2003 Refereed Papers, Coffs Harbour, February 2003. (CD)

K.W. Hopkins & E.J. Michael (2002): Tourism Clusters - Towards a Theory for Regional Development. In N. Andrews, J. Ruddy & S. Flanagan (Eds), Tourism, Destination Planning, Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary International Conference, European Association of Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS), Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, 3-6 October, 2001. Paper 20, Pp. 346-360.

E.J. Michael (2001): Tourism Growth and the Development of Micro-Market Clusters, Creating and Managing Growth in Travel and Tourism, TTRA 3rd European Conference, Stockholm, April 2001. (CD)

E.J. Michael & G. Plowman (2001): Development at Mt Stirling: Another Case of Collective Failure, Capitalising on Research, CAUTHE 2001 Refereed Papers, Canberra, February 2001, Pp. 233 – 245.  

Other Publications

E.J. Michael (2004): When is a Cluster not a Cluster? Comparative Cases in Tourism Micro-Clusters, Creating Tourism Knowledge – CAUTHE 2004, Working papers, University of Queensland, School of Tourism & Leisure Management, February 2004, Pp. 279-283. ISBN 978-91-633-0645-7

E.J. Michael (2003): The Foundations of Public Policy, Draft Student Edition, School of Tourism & Hospitality, La Trobe University, Bundoora. ISBN 1920697527

E.J. Michael (2002): The Bear Minimum – A Workbook for Economics for the Tourism Industry, School of Tourism and Hospitality, La Trobe University, Bundoora. (Revised editions 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009). ISBN 186446 5794

E.J. Michael (2001): Public Choice, The Tourism Industry and Other Readings, School of Tourism & Hospitality, La Trobe University, Bundoora (Monograph, c220 pages). ISBN 1864465441.

E.J. Michael (Editor) (2000): Peak Performance in Tourism and Hospitality Research, CAUTHE 2000 Refereed Papers, School of Tourism and Hospitality, La Trobe University, Bundoora. (Volume and CD) ISBN 0-646-38832-0