About this Presentation
In normal (pre-Covid) circumstances, tourist drivers are often accused of causing problems, and even accidents, on roads. But is this claim fair?
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
Tourism, particularly self-drive tourism, is a significant part of New Zealand's economy, but it also poses potential risks and conflicts with residents.
Media plays a significant role in amplifying negative perceptions of self-drive tourism.
Infrastructure issues and driving ability are core problems leading to negative perceptions. Mitigation strategies can be developed using the Theory of Constraint methodology.
Instructor(s)
Wing Cho (Joe) Cheung
Wing Cho Cheung (Joe) is Master of tourism management at the Victoria University of Wellington's School of Business and Government. He has tutored TOC courses for Prof Vicky Mabin, and completed his Master thesis studying causes and effects of residents’ perception of self-drive tourism under the supervision of Prof Vicky Mabin and Associate Prof Ian Yeoman.
Vicky Mabin
Vicky Mabin, PhD FORS is Adjunct Professor at the Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Business and Government. She has taught several hundred students about TOC and conducted and supervised many projects using TOC. Vicky led the first implementation of TOC in New Zealand in 1987, and has written over 200 journal articles, books, chapters, conference papers, teaching texts, and technical reports, many of which are on TOC. She is leading author of TOC TP articles, and co-author of The World of TOC (2000), bibliographical articles on TOC, and co-creator of the TOC research articles database.
Vicky served on the TOCICO Board of Directors from 2016–2019 and is a frequent presenter at TOCICO and Operations Research/Decision Sciences conferences. She has received top awards including Fellow of the ORS (UK), the ORSNZ’s premier award the Hans Daellenbach Prize for her contributions to the theory and application of OR, particularly TOC, and most recently the Griffiths Medal for the best paper in the last 2 years in the Health Systems journal.
Ian Yeoman
Ian Yeoman is Editor of the Journal of Revenue & Pricing Management. Co Editor of the Journal of Tourism Futures. Expert in travel and tourism futures. Scenario planner and futurologist in travel and tourism. Creative speaker. Author of several tourism books.