Staff profiles
Dr Dorothea Meyer
Director of the Tourism and Poverty Reduction Research Unit
Senior lecturer in tourism, PhD, PGCLT, MA, BSc (Hons)
Phone 0114 225 2906
Email d.meyer@shu.ac.uk
Dorothea is particularly interested in the political economy of tourism and the role of tourism as an agent for poverty reduction in less economically developed countries.
She completed her PhD at the University of North London in 2001, which focused on power, networks and resident responses to tourism development. Prior to that, she worked as marketing executive for the Malta National Tourist Office in London, and as researcher/lecturer for the tourism department at the Technical University of Dresden in Germany. After finishing her PhD she worked on pro-poor tourism issues for the Overseas Development Institute, where she focused on projects in sub-Saharan Africa looking at pro-poor tourism methodology and in particularly the implementation of linkages between mainstream tourism businesses and 'poor' neighbouring communities.
She joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2004, where she has combined her teaching with research projects. She is director of the Tourism and Poverty Reduction Research Unit and has recently carried out research projects related to tourism as a tool for poverty reduction in the Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu, Thailand, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Dorothea worked on projects funded by a variety of organisations including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), European Commission European Development Fund/Africa Caribbean Pacific, UK Department for International Development (DfID), UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Travel Foundation, and various local governments, community based organisations and (international) non governmental organisations. She is currently engaged in research and education projects in Southern and Eastern Africa.
Teaching interests
- tourism and development
- tourism and globalisation
- research methods
Postgraduate teaching
- tourism and globalisation (module leader)
- development studies and tourism (module leader)
Research interests
- tourism as a tool for poverty reduction and pro-poor tourism
- political economy of tourism
- tourism impact assessments and methodology
- foreign direct investment in tourism and its developmental impacts
- residents' perceptions of tourism development
- tourism, gender and poverty reduction
- the role of the private sector in poverty reduction
- tourism value-chain analysis
Supervision
- undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations
- PhD supervision
Publications
Erskine, L. and Meyer, D. (2012) 'Influenced and influential: The role of tour operators and development organisations in tourism and poverty reduction in Ecuador.' Journal of Sustainable Tourism, special issue on Tourism and Poverty Reduction edited by D. Meyer and A. Spenceley
Meyer, D. (2010) Pro-Poor Tourism. in S. Cole and N. Morgan (Eds) Tourism, Inequality and Social Justice. CABI
Meyer, D. (2010) The Emergence of the Semi-Periphery in Tourism Investment in East Africa. In: J. Mosedale (Ed) The New Political Economy of Tourism; Routledge
Meyer, D. (2009) 'Pro-Poor Tourism: Whose rhetoric?' Tourism Recreation Research, 34(2)
Meyer, D. (2008) 'Pro-Poor Tourism - from leakages to linkages. A conceptual framework for developing linkages between the tourism private sector and 'poor' neighbours'. Current Issues in Tourism 10:6, pp. 558–583.
Bramwell, B and Meyer, D. (2007) 'Networks, power and policies in transition'. Annals of Tourism Research 34(3): 766–788
Meyer, D. (2006) Caribbean Tourism, Local Sourcing and Enterprise Development: review of the literature. Pro Poor Tourism Working Paper No 19, London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT)
Roe, D., Ashley, C., Page, S. and Meyer, D. (2004) 'Tourism and the Poor: Analysing and Interpreting Tourism Statistics from a Poverty Perspective', PPT Working Paper No. 16, London: ODI, IIED and ICRT
Meyer, D. (2003) 'Outbound UK Tour Operating Industry and Implications for Pro-Poor Tourism in Developing Countries', Pro-Poor Tourism Working Paper No. 17, London: ODI, IIED and ICRT
Meyer, D. (2003) 'What Price Tourism?', Development Policy Review, 21(3), pp. 383–387
Meyer, D. (2003) 'Strengths and Weaknesses of a Pro-Poor Tourism Approach', Pro-Poor Tourism Working Paper No 9, London: ODI, IIED and ICRT
Other
Meyer, D. (2007) Foreign Direct Investment in Tourism: The Development Dimension. Review of Best Practice in Foreign Direct Investment Policy. Geneva: UNCTAD
Meyer, D. (2006) Foreign Direct Investment in Tourism: The Development Dimension. Case Study Sri Lanka. Geneva: UNCTAD
UNCTAD (2004) World Investment Report 2004 - Tourism Networks,
Geneva: UNCTAD (un-named but acknowledged contribution)
Pro-Poor Tourism in Southern Africa Partner Workshop (2004) 15
Briefs available at www.pptpilot.org.za
Meyer, D. (2004) Tourism Routes and Gateways: examples and a selection of key issues for the development of tourism routes and gateways and their potential for Pro-Poor Tourism. London: ODI, available at www.pptpilot.org.za
Meyer, D. (2004) Pro-Poor Tourism Implementation Scoping Studies for Sun City, Sun International and Spier; internal reports, summaries available at www.pptpilot.org.za
Pro-Poor Tourism Info Sheets (2004) - 14 information sheets on pro-poor tourism, available at www.propoortourism.org.uk
Pro-Poor Tourism Lesson Sharing (2003) Report to DfID; London: ODI, IIED and ICRT
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