Heike Schänzel
Biographic Data
| ID | 322255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heike Schänzel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heike |
| FAMILY NAME | Schänzel |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÄNZEL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3885-5640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Enhancing sustainable development in the tourism sharing economy: Value co-creation in the service ecosystem
Purpose This study aims to explore how value co-creation is achieved through a relationship between hosts and guests in the urban tourism sharing economy (TSE). Based on the service-dominant logic, the study offers a novel understanding of the nature and types of value generated during interactions between hosts and guests within tours and activities, an area that has been comparatively overlooked in academic literature relative to accommodation.…
On the gender imperative in tourism geographies research
This discussion provides a critical review of gender issues in tourism geographies. It maps historical and contemporary developments and provides a future research agenda that suggests moving beyond binary and Western gender discourses
Mechanism Underlying the Influence of Family Travel on Adolescent Self‐Differentiation: A Social Learning Theory Perspective
Most tourism studies have investigated adolescent experiences and their subjective feelings toward family travel. However, the research regarding how family travel influences adolescent mental development is still fragmented. To fill this research gap, this study used social learning theory and a grounded theory approach to explore the identity development and self‐growth of 12 adolescents from families in China with family travel experiences. Ta…
The future of tourism: Interview with Professor Heike Schänzel about her role as Associate Editor of the Journal of Tourism Futures
Purpose As the Journal of Tourism Futures celebrates its 10th anniversary, Dr Ian Yeoman (Hotel Management School Leeuwarden) interviews Professor Heike Schänzel (Auckland University of Technology) about her role as the Associate Editor of the journal. Design/methodology/approach Personal interview. Findings Schänzel provides a guide to the role of the Associate Editors and discusses her own research. Originality/value The interview provides insi…
African centred research approach: Beyond “ mining data ” to knowledge sharing rooted in Baraza
Queer tourism geographies and placemaking: Beyond Homonormativity
Sexual politics in the field: Gendered Research Spaces in Tourism Geographies
Sexual violence and harassment in field research is an uncomfortable and under-discussed phenomenon in the social sciences. Tourism geographies, being cross-cultural, often require solo fieldwork that exposes one’s gender in geographically remote locations. There is a pressing need to normalise the discussion of sexual politics in the field, specifically concerning occurrences of gender-associated risks in fieldwork and report on the unexpected p…
Slow hospitality: Family perspectives of holiday experiences at beach fale in Samoa
In Samoa, customarily most tourism accommodation is locally owned and operated. Against a backdrop of increasingly foreign-owned large hotels and resorts, local families have built low-cost beach fale accommodation (consisting of thatched beach huts) in coastal locations. These beach fale, traditionally frequented by the backpacker market, are proving increasingly popular with visiting families from overseas. A major attraction at these beach fal…
Mapping the outcomes of social entrepreneurship and tourism on host communities: A three-dimensional approach
Social entrepreneurship has been popularised as a market-based activity with an embedded social purpose aimed at positively transforming communities and society. As a strategy for developing sustainable tourism, social entrepreneurship is promoted as a catalyst for positive community change. This study develops and applies a conceptual model that can help understand the changes directly and indirectly induced by tourism social entrepreneurship (T…
Tourist behaviour in a Covid-19 world: A New Zealand perspective
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic is considered a “once in a century” public health shock that, at the time of writing, continues to have a profound impact on global tourism and New Zealand. The paper aims to assess how consumer behaviour trends changed using a trends analysis framework. Design/methodology/approach Positioning the paper in the prognosis–prediction paradigm from futures studies and using a trend analysis approach, the authors forecast…
Healthy and Indulgent Food Consumption Practices Within Grandparent-Grandchild Identity Bundles: A Qualitative Study of New Zealand and Danish Families
Both grandparenting and food provisioning practices play an important role in contemporary family life, but the role of food in grandparent-grandchild and wider family relationships is underresearched. Popular and academic discourse often focuses on grandparents as indulgent feeders with negative implications for children's weight and eating practices. Drawing on the concept of family identity bundles and interviews with Danish and New Zealand gr…
Hinduism, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health: What Are the Health Hazards for Religious Tourists at Hindu Temples
This exploratory ethnographic study aims to understand the visitation experience and to identify health hazards at pilgrimage sites in India. Specifically, this research aims to assess the tourism potential of holy Hindu temple sites located along well-known pilgrimage routes. During our fieldwork, we visited several of the most significant Hindu temples in India. Framed by a critical ethnography lens, our study used unstructured interviews with …
A tourism inflex: Generation Z travel experiences
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it highlights the emergence of Generation Z and the interface of its members with the tourism system. Second, by way of a theoretical model, the paper provides a more holistic approach to understanding Generation Z travel experiences in which the emphasis is shifted from the destination to the traveller. This is in keeping with the trend which lays more emphasis on people rather than landscape.…
From the fluidity of the experience economy to transformative experiences as a catalyst for positive change: The future of experiential travel
Fun time, finite time: Temporal and emotional dimensions of grandtravel experiences
VFR Travel Research: International Perspectives
Reflections of battlefield tourist experiences associated with Vietnam War sites: An analysis of travel blogs
The aim of this paper is to analyse online travel blogs in order to gain an understanding of the reflections held by battlefield tourists in Vietnam. A qualitative approach utilising thematic analysis was conducted on 20 travel blogs. The findings suggest that tourists can have a deeply reflective experience at sites of past warfare, which includes cognitive dissonance to the war narrative. Tourist experiences in Vietnam presented a connection to…
Unearthing the geotourism experience: Geotourist perspectives at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
This study aims to explore the geotourism experience by undertaking a qualitative inquiry of the narratives of geotourists to Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. This study proposes that the geotourism experience is created onsite through the tourists’ visual, performative and social aspects of gazing and produced in the tourists’ minds through their perception, imagination and self-reflection. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 12 p…
Positive tourism
Non-resident fathers’ holidays alone with their children: Experiences, meanings and fatherhood
Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations. True gender scholarship requires a critical appraisal of gender relations that is inclusive of the male voice in family tourism. This exploratory study extends previous research into separated families and their leisure experiences. Our research focuses on the experiences of non-resident fathers who holiday alone with their children and the meanings of …
Introduction: Special issue on children, families and leisure – part three
As editors, we initially anticipated only one special issue to showcase the changing definitions and conceptualisations of families, children and leisure. Little did we know that we would end up ac
Trends in family tourism
Purpose Families represent a large and growing market for the tourism industry. Family tourism is driven by the increasing importance placed on promoting family togetherness, keeping family bonds alive and creating family memories. Predictions for the future of family travel are shaped by changes in demography and social structures. With global mobility families are increasingly geographically dispersed and new family markets are emerging. The pu…
Family perspectives on social hospitality dimensions while on holiday
This article focuses on neglected social hospitality dimensions of food and accommodation on family holidays. Holidays signify concentrated periods of family time not only allowing for more shared food experiences but also necessitating more confined living spaces compared to home. A whole-family methodology was used as a critical and holistic approach to understand the holiday experiences of 10 families. Positive and negative memories of hospita…
Special issue on children, families and leisure – second of two issues
This issue of Annals of Leisure Research is the second part of a special issue focused on children, families and leisure. The need to produce two parts for the issue is testament to the number and
Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: Differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’
Studies of family leisure and holidays reveal that an important goal of these experiences is the fostering of family togetherness and social connectedness away from usual work/life pressures. As outlined by Schänzel and Smith (2014), however, family experiences of leisure include opportunities for both ‘family time’ and ‘own time’. Family time incorporates opportunities for strengthening family bonds by creating family memories and allowing learn…
Fun time, finite time: Temporal and emotional dimensions of grandtravel experiences
The Socialization of Families Away from Home: Group Dynamics and Family Functioning on Holiday
The focus on individuals in tourism research has led to limited and fragmented research on family groups and their leisure experiences away from home. This article extends conceptual and theoretical understandings within family tourism research by offering a three-dimensional framework inclusive of group perspectives. A whole-family methodology was used with 10 families (10 fathers, 10 mothers and 20 children) in New Zealand as a more critical an…
The Future of Family Tourism
This paper situates current knowledge on family tourism with pointers to the future by drawing on multidisciplinary contributions to a recent consolidative book. Research in family tourism is limited, fragmented and individualized, thus not accounting for the diversity of family forms, sociality of family groups and multidimensionality of family experiences. Integration of thinking about and understanding the changing nature of families in touris…
The absence of fatherhood: Achieving true gender scholarship in family tourism research
The lack of research into fathers on holiday is a reminder that understandings of masculinities and gender relations in tourism are absent compared to other disciplinary areas. Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations rather than examinations of femininities and masculinities. True gender scholarship requires more holistic and critical appraisals of gender relations that recognize the intersect…
Photography and Children: Auto-driven Photo-elicitation
This Department is devoted to research reports, notes, conference résumés and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 3,000 words, may be mailed to the Section Editor, Professor David A. Fetmell, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1; e-mail. [email protected]. In all cases, one copy of the report should be mailed to the Chief Editor, TRR
On the gender imperative in tourism geographies research
This discussion provides a critical review of gender issues in tourism geographies. It maps historical and contemporary developments and provides a future research agenda that suggests moving beyond binary and Western gender discourses
Family perspectives on social hospitality dimensions while on holiday
This article focuses on neglected social hospitality dimensions of food and accommodation on family holidays. Holidays signify concentrated periods of family time not only allowing for more shared food experiences but also necessitating more confined living spaces compared to home. A whole-family methodology was used as a critical and holistic approach to understand the holiday experiences of 10 families. Positive and negative memories of hospita…
Special issue on children, families and leisure – first of two issues
Family Holidays—Vacation or Obli-cation
The most common stated reason for taking a holiday has been found to be ‘to reduce stress’. However, for families, particularly those with young children, holidays may create rather than reduce stress. Often the source of stress is derived from accommodation in destinations not having adequate facilities. Using online questionnaires that allowed in-depth open-ended responses, the findings from 71 respondents within Australia's State of Victoria i…
Reflections of battlefield tourist experiences associated with Vietnam War sites: An analysis of travel blogs
The aim of this paper is to analyse online travel blogs in order to gain an understanding of the reflections held by battlefield tourists in Vietnam. A qualitative approach utilising thematic analysis was conducted on 20 travel blogs. The findings suggest that tourists can have a deeply reflective experience at sites of past warfare, which includes cognitive dissonance to the war narrative. Tourist experiences in Vietnam presented a connection to…
Queer tourism geographies and placemaking: Beyond Homonormativity
Healthy and Indulgent Food Consumption Practices Within Grandparent-Grandchild Identity Bundles: A Qualitative Study of New Zealand and Danish Families
Both grandparenting and food provisioning practices play an important role in contemporary family life, but the role of food in grandparent-grandchild and wider family relationships is underresearched. Popular and academic discourse often focuses on grandparents as indulgent feeders with negative implications for children's weight and eating practices. Drawing on the concept of family identity bundles and interviews with Danish and New Zealand gr…
Special issue on children, families and leisure – second of two issues
This issue of Annals of Leisure Research is the second part of a special issue focused on children, families and leisure. The need to produce two parts for the issue is testament to the number and
Sexual politics in the field: Gendered Research Spaces in Tourism Geographies
Sexual violence and harassment in field research is an uncomfortable and under-discussed phenomenon in the social sciences. Tourism geographies, being cross-cultural, often require solo fieldwork that exposes one’s gender in geographically remote locations. There is a pressing need to normalise the discussion of sexual politics in the field, specifically concerning occurrences of gender-associated risks in fieldwork and report on the unexpected p…
Non-resident fathers’ holidays alone with their children: Experiences, meanings and fatherhood
Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations. True gender scholarship requires a critical appraisal of gender relations that is inclusive of the male voice in family tourism. This exploratory study extends previous research into separated families and their leisure experiences. Our research focuses on the experiences of non-resident fathers who holiday alone with their children and the meanings of …
Introduction: Special issue on children, families and leisure – part three
As editors, we initially anticipated only one special issue to showcase the changing definitions and conceptualisations of families, children and leisure. Little did we know that we would end up ac
Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: Differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’
Studies of family leisure and holidays reveal that an important goal of these experiences is the fostering of family togetherness and social connectedness away from usual work/life pressures. As outlined by Schänzel and Smith (2014), however, family experiences of leisure include opportunities for both ‘family time’ and ‘own time’. Family time incorporates opportunities for strengthening family bonds by creating family memories and allowing learn…
Hinduism, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health: What Are the Health Hazards for Religious Tourists at Hindu Temples
This exploratory ethnographic study aims to understand the visitation experience and to identify health hazards at pilgrimage sites in India. Specifically, this research aims to assess the tourism potential of holy Hindu temple sites located along well-known pilgrimage routes. During our fieldwork, we visited several of the most significant Hindu temples in India. Framed by a critical ethnography lens, our study used unstructured interviews with …
Unearthing the geotourism experience: Geotourist perspectives at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
This study aims to explore the geotourism experience by undertaking a qualitative inquiry of the narratives of geotourists to Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. This study proposes that the geotourism experience is created onsite through the tourists’ visual, performative and social aspects of gazing and produced in the tourists’ minds through their perception, imagination and self-reflection. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 12 p…
Family Holidays: A Research Review and Application to New Zealand
Holidays with children have largely been marginalised in research that examines leisure travel. This paper is a critical review of the available literature and presents a summary of themes relevant for the study of family holidays. Most tourism work is market-driven and from an adult perspective, with children treated as passive members of the family. Neglected areas include the social and cultural dimensions of the family holiday experience, suc…
The absence of fatherhood: Achieving true gender scholarship in family tourism research
The lack of research into fathers on holiday is a reminder that understandings of masculinities and gender relations in tourism are absent compared to other disciplinary areas. Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations rather than examinations of femininities and masculinities. True gender scholarship requires more holistic and critical appraisals of gender relations that recognize the intersect…
Photography and Children: Auto-driven Photo-elicitation
This Department is devoted to research reports, notes, conference résumés and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 3,000 words, may be mailed to the Section Editor, Professor David A. Fetmell, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1; e-mail. [email protected]. In all cases, one copy of the report should be mailed to the Chief Editor, TRR
The Stress of the Family Holiday
Family Tourism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
This cutting-edge international book brings together leading experts’ latest research in the field of family tourism by adding to its underdeveloped knowledge base. It highlights the infancy of academic family tourism research and addresses future implications and theoretical debates about the place of families within tourism.
Family Holidays—Vacation or Obli-cation
The most common stated reason for taking a holiday has been found to be ‘to reduce stress’. However, for families, particularly those with young children, holidays may create rather than reduce stress. Often the source of stress is derived from accommodation in destinations not having adequate facilities. Using online questionnaires that allowed in-depth open-ended responses, the findings from 71 respondents within Australia's State of Victoria i…
The Future of Family Tourism
This paper situates current knowledge on family tourism with pointers to the future by drawing on multidisciplinary contributions to a recent consolidative book. Research in family tourism is limited, fragmented and individualized, thus not accounting for the diversity of family forms, sociality of family groups and multidimensionality of family experiences. Integration of thinking about and understanding the changing nature of families in touris…
The Socialization of Families Away from Home: Group Dynamics and Family Functioning on Holiday
The focus on individuals in tourism research has led to limited and fragmented research on family groups and their leisure experiences away from home. This article extends conceptual and theoretical understandings within family tourism research by offering a three-dimensional framework inclusive of group perspectives. A whole-family methodology was used with 10 families (10 fathers, 10 mothers and 20 children) in New Zealand as a more critical an…
Trends in family tourism
Purpose Families represent a large and growing market for the tourism industry. Family tourism is driven by the increasing importance placed on promoting family togetherness, keeping family bonds alive and creating family memories. Predictions for the future of family travel are shaped by changes in demography and social structures. With global mobility families are increasingly geographically dispersed and new family markets are emerging. The pu…
Family perspectives on social hospitality dimensions while on holiday
This article focuses on neglected social hospitality dimensions of food and accommodation on family holidays. Holidays signify concentrated periods of family time not only allowing for more shared food experiences but also necessitating more confined living spaces compared to home. A whole-family methodology was used as a critical and holistic approach to understand the holiday experiences of 10 families. Positive and negative memories of hospita…
Special issue on children, families and leisure – second of two issues
This issue of Annals of Leisure Research is the second part of a special issue focused on children, families and leisure. The need to produce two parts for the issue is testament to the number and
Family experiences of visitor attractions in New Zealand: Differing opportunities for ‘family time’ and ‘own time’
Studies of family leisure and holidays reveal that an important goal of these experiences is the fostering of family togetherness and social connectedness away from usual work/life pressures. As outlined by Schänzel and Smith (2014), however, family experiences of leisure include opportunities for both ‘family time’ and ‘own time’. Family time incorporates opportunities for strengthening family bonds by creating family memories and allowing learn…
Special issue on children, families and leisure – first of two issues
Non-resident fathers’ holidays alone with their children: Experiences, meanings and fatherhood
Research on family holiday experiences is largely informed by feminist gender representations. True gender scholarship requires a critical appraisal of gender relations that is inclusive of the male voice in family tourism. This exploratory study extends previous research into separated families and their leisure experiences. Our research focuses on the experiences of non-resident fathers who holiday alone with their children and the meanings of …
Introduction: Special issue on children, families and leisure – part three
As editors, we initially anticipated only one special issue to showcase the changing definitions and conceptualisations of families, children and leisure. Little did we know that we would end up ac
VFR Travel Research: International Perspectives
Reflections of battlefield tourist experiences associated with Vietnam War sites: An analysis of travel blogs
The aim of this paper is to analyse online travel blogs in order to gain an understanding of the reflections held by battlefield tourists in Vietnam. A qualitative approach utilising thematic analysis was conducted on 20 travel blogs. The findings suggest that tourists can have a deeply reflective experience at sites of past warfare, which includes cognitive dissonance to the war narrative. Tourist experiences in Vietnam presented a connection to…
Unearthing the geotourism experience: Geotourist perspectives at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
This study aims to explore the geotourism experience by undertaking a qualitative inquiry of the narratives of geotourists to Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. This study proposes that the geotourism experience is created onsite through the tourists’ visual, performative and social aspects of gazing and produced in the tourists’ minds through their perception, imagination and self-reflection. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 12 p…
Positive tourism
A tourism inflex: Generation Z travel experiences
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it highlights the emergence of Generation Z and the interface of its members with the tourism system. Second, by way of a theoretical model, the paper provides a more holistic approach to understanding Generation Z travel experiences in which the emphasis is shifted from the destination to the traveller. This is in keeping with the trend which lays more emphasis on people rather than landscape.…
From the fluidity of the experience economy to transformative experiences as a catalyst for positive change: The future of experiential travel
Fun time, finite time: Temporal and emotional dimensions of grandtravel experiences
Hinduism, Ecological Conservation, and Public Health: What Are the Health Hazards for Religious Tourists at Hindu Temples
This exploratory ethnographic study aims to understand the visitation experience and to identify health hazards at pilgrimage sites in India. Specifically, this research aims to assess the tourism potential of holy Hindu temple sites located along well-known pilgrimage routes. During our fieldwork, we visited several of the most significant Hindu temples in India. Framed by a critical ethnography lens, our study used unstructured interviews with …
Healthy and Indulgent Food Consumption Practices Within Grandparent-Grandchild Identity Bundles: A Qualitative Study of New Zealand and Danish Families
Both grandparenting and food provisioning practices play an important role in contemporary family life, but the role of food in grandparent-grandchild and wider family relationships is underresearched. Popular and academic discourse often focuses on grandparents as indulgent feeders with negative implications for children's weight and eating practices. Drawing on the concept of family identity bundles and interviews with Danish and New Zealand gr…
Slow hospitality: Family perspectives of holiday experiences at beach fale in Samoa
In Samoa, customarily most tourism accommodation is locally owned and operated. Against a backdrop of increasingly foreign-owned large hotels and resorts, local families have built low-cost beach fale accommodation (consisting of thatched beach huts) in coastal locations. These beach fale, traditionally frequented by the backpacker market, are proving increasingly popular with visiting families from overseas. A major attraction at these beach fal…
Sociology (28 works) · Tourism (26 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Geography (12 works) · Social science (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Cruise Tourism Development and Management (9 works)