Sophie Auckram

Soph­ie Auckram

Sophie Auckram

Soph­ie Auck­ram is a research assist­ant at Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity sup­port­ing research into COVID-19, Indi­gen­ous peoples, and tour­ism. She gradu­ated from Vic­tor­ia Uni­ver­sity of Wel­ling­ton in Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions and Polit­ic­al Sci­ence and is plan­ning to do a Mas­ter­’s in Envir­on­ment­al Governance.

What do the people want? Reimagining Pacific Island travel & tourism

, and March 16, 2021
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Reimagining pacific island tourism for host communities. Image (c) Pedram Pirnia

Thanks to its pan­­dem­ic-induced pause, travel & tour­ism has an oppor­tun­ity to rein­vent itself to bet­ter serve the aspir­a­tions of des­tin­a­tion com­munit­ies, accord­ing to Apis­a­lome Movono, Regina Scheyvens, and Soph­ie Auck­ram. The Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity research­ers draw on their ongo­ing study of five Pacific Island states to argue why the industry should be more attuned to […]

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