Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Hazel Tucker

'Shame, Empathy, Fear and Hope: Why Tourism Matters'.
This is the title of Professor Tucker's lecture.

About Hazel's Research:
With a background in social anthropology, Hazel investigates tourism’s influence on socio-cultural identities, relationships and change. She asks: What does, or potentially what can, tourism do within contemporary society and culture?

For over two decades Hazel has conducted ethnographic research on tourism development at a World Heritage Area in central Turkey. The focus has been on World Heritage values, rural community entrepreneurial development, gender and poverty alleviation, and tourism-refugee interactions. The longitudinal nature of this research in one destination has allowed Hazel to track development and social change over a 20 year period.

Other areas of Hazel’s research include examining emotions in tourism, such as the relationship between tourism and empathy, shame, fear (for the future), and how tourism affects our capacity for hope. Recently, she has participated in a collaborative program of research that aims to better understand Chinese domestic and outbound tourism.