Scott Richardson
Academic Dean
Programs BBA in Global Hospitality Management - Abu Dhabi, Master of Science in International Hospitality Management
Campus Abu Dhabi
Bio

Professor Scott Richardson is an accomplished academic leader and expert in hospitality education.

He currently serves as the Academic Dean, bringing his extensive experience and knowledge to the role.

Professor Richardson holds a PhD in Tourism from Griffith University, underscoring his expertise and dedication to advancing the field.

Publication
  • Manfreda, A., Presbury, R., Richardson, S., Melissen, F., & King, J. (2023). A balancing act: Negotiating authenticity in luxury lodges. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 30(4), 805-827. Read here
  • Goh, E., & Richardson, S. (2024). Developing effective mentoring programs in hospitality higher education: a practical perspective using the mentoring framework. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 24(2), 179–188. Read here
  • Lee, C., Richardson, S., Goh, E., & Presbury, R. (2022). Exploring the selfie and distracted gaze of the tourist experience through the lens of online photo-sharing: Where to from here? Journal of Vacation Marketing, 30(1), 3-20. Read here
  • Manfreda, A., Presbury, R., Richardson, S., Melissen, F., & King, J. (2023). Walking the talk: A High Engagement Research implementation framework in the qualitative study of tourism and hospitality experiences. Tourism Management Perspectives, 48, N.PAG. Read here
  • Lee, C., Richardson, S., Goh, E., & Presbury, R. (2023).From the tourist gaze to a shared gaze: Exploring motivations for online photo-sharing in present-day tourism experience. (2023). Tourism Management Perspectives. Read here
  • Manfreda, A., Melissen, F., Presbury, R., Richardson, S.,  & King, J. (2023). A model of luxury lodge experience quality. (2023). Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Read here
  • Manfreda, A., Melissen, F., Presbury, R., Richardson, S. (2023). The building blocks of luxury accommodation experiences: A meta-ethnographic synthesis. Tourism Management Perspectives. Read here
  • Patiar, A., Kensbock, S., Benckendorff, P., Robinson, R., Richardson, S., Wang, Y., & Lee, A. (2021). Hospitality Students’ Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills through a Virtual Field Trip Experience. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, 33(1), 14–28. Read here
  • Goh, E., Lai, M., & Tham, A. (2025). Travel constraints and coping mechanisms of healthy ageing senior solo travellers: a netnographic user-generated content analysis of video travel blogs. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics
  • Gao, J., Zhang, Y., Goh, E., & Li, Y. (2025). Transforming Hospitality Workforces Through Adaptive Human Resource Management. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 0(0). Read here
  • Goh, E., Richardson, S., & Thomas, N. (2025). Opportunities, challenges, and future prospects of establishing a hospitality institution in the UAE: a case study of the Abu Dhabi Hospitality Academy, Les Roches. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 1–21.
  • Barton, B., & Goh, E. (2025). Last chance tourism: A systematic literature review and future research directions. Tourism Management Perspectives, 57, 101361.
  • Yang, S., Goh, E., & Fan, Y. (2025). Advancing self-congruity theory in senior tourism: a perspective on theoretical, methodological and contextual progress. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics
  • Sigala, M., Goh, E., Leung, X., Rasoolimanesh, S., Su, C., & Tham, A. (2025). 30 Years of contribution and future directions in tourism, hospitality, and events research: A Quo Vadis perspective from the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 62(March), 258-265.
  • Tjong, F., Goh, E., & Wilk, V. (2025). Crisis Planning Intentions among Hotel Managers: What have we learned from the COVID19 Pandemic? Tourism Recreation Research.
  • Fan, Y., Yang, S., & Goh, E., Isa, M.(2025). Do prestige sensitivity and altruism moderate the effects of customers’ emotions on WOM? An investigation of luxury retailers. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management
  • Zhang, Y., Gao, J., Goh, E., & Li, Y. (2024). A Complex Adaptive System Analysis of Emerging Tourism Work Paradigms. Current Issues in Tourism.
  • Kitchener, E., Goh, E., Steriopoulos, E., Robertson, M., Losekoot, E., Harkison, T., & Drake, C. (2024). Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning. Studies in Higher Education.
  • Goh, E., Tham, A., & Lai, M. (2024). Exploring senior solo travel through a tri-factor healthy ageing framework. Tourism Management Perspectives, 54(Nov), 101314.
  • Goh, E., & Wilk, V. (2024). Showcasing Leximancer in Tourism and Hospitality research: A review of Leximancer-based research published in tourism and hospitality journals during 2014-2020. Tourism Recreation Research, 49(5), 1005-1018.
  • Fan, Y., Goh, E., Isa, M., & Yang, S. (2024). 30 years of healthy ageing research in tourism and hospitality: research trends and implications for future research. The Services Industries Journal.
  • Lee, C., Richardson, S., Goh, E., & Presbury, R. (2024). Exploring the selfie and distracted gaze of the tourist experience through the lens of online photo-sharing: Where to from here? Journal of Vacation Marketing, 31(1), 3-20.
  • Pham, T., Bannigidadmath, D., Goh, E., & Golab, A. (2024). Hitting the Jackpot: What drives casino hotel stock returns’ predictability? Tourism Recreation Research.
  • Goh, E., & Richardson, S. (2024). Developing effective mentoring programs in hospitality higher education: a practical perspective using the mentoring framework. Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, 24(2), 179-188.
  • Lee, C., Richardson, S., Goh, E., & Presbury, R. (2023). From the tourist gaze to a shared gaze: Exploring motivations for online photo-sharing in present-day tourism experience. Tourism Management Perspectives, 46, 101099.
  • Goh, E. (2023). Walking off-trail in national parks: Monkey see monkey do. Leisure Sciences, 45(1), 1-23.
  • Fan, Y., Isa, S., Yang, S., & Goh, E. (2023). Please stay with us again: Investigating the mediating roles of hedonic well-being and tourism autobiographical memory in customer retention at Chinese resorts. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 56, 410-419.
  • Wen, J., Goh, E., & Yu, C. (2023). Segmentation of physician-assisted suicide as a niche tourism market: An initial exploration. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 47, 574-589.
  • Nyanjom, J., Goh, E., & Yang, E. (2023). Integrating authentic assessment tasks in work integrated learning hospitality internships. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 75, 300-322.
  • Goh, E. (2023). Managing off-trail walking behaviour in national parks. Anatolia, 34(1), 104-107.
  • Nguyen, I., Goh, E., & Murillo, D. (2023). Living through the lives of hospitality students during work-integrated learning (WIL) internships: An application of the critical incident technique to explore affecting students’ WIL experience. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, 35(3), 225-236.
  • Esfandiar, K., Pearce, J., Dowling, R., & Goh, E. (2023). The extended theory of planned behaviour model and national parks visitors’ pro-environmental binning behaviour: A cross-cultural perspective. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 42, 100602.
  • Cao, D., Yan, S., Goh, E., Wang, R., Kuiavska, K. (2022). Adoption of smart voice assistants technology among Airbnb guests: A revised self-efficacy-based value adoption model (SVAM). International Journal of Hospitality Management, 101, 103124.
  • Goh, E., Wen, J., & Yu, C. (2022). Lessons from the departed: A planned behaviour approach to understand travellers’ actual physician-assisted suicide behaviour. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 46(8), 1675-1689.
  • Goh, E., Esfandiar, K., Jie, F., Brown, K., & Djajadikerta, H. (2022). Please sort out your rubbish! An integrated structural model approach to examine antecedents of residential households’ waste separation behaviour. Journal of Cleaner Production, 355(June), 131789.
  • Goh, E., Okumus, B., Jie, F., Djajadikerta, & Lemy, D. (2022). Managing food wastage in hotels: discrepancies between injunctive and descriptive norms amongst hotel food and beverage managers. British Food Journal, 124(12), 4666-4685.
  • Goh, E., Mat Roni, S., & Bannigidadmath, D. (2022). Thomas Cook(ed): Using Altman’s Z-score analysis to examine predictors of financial bankruptcy in tourism and hospitality businesses. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 34(3), 475-487.
  • Esfandiar, K., Pearce, J., Dowling, R., Goh, E. (2022). Pro-environmental behaviours in protected areas: A systematic literature review and future research directions. Tourism Management Perspectives, 41, 100943.
  • Yang, S., Isa, M., Ramayah, T., Wen, J., & Goh, E. (2022). Developing an extended model of self-congruity to predict Chinese tourists’ revisit intentions to New Zealand: the moderating role of gender. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 34(7), 1459-1481.
  • Wen, J., Wang, C., Goh, E., Su, Z., & Ying, T. (2022). Traditional Chinese medicine as a tourism recovery drawcard to boost China’s inbound tourism after COVID-19. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 34(7), 1503-1523.
  • Aston, J., Wen, J., Goh, E., & Maurer, O. (2022). Promoting awareness of sex trafficking in tourism and hospitality. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 16(1), 1-6.
  • Steriopoulos, E., Goh, E., & Harkison, T. (2022). Practical teaching tips on designing authentic assessments in Tourism, Hospitality and Events (THE) higher education. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 22(4), 425-433.
  • Goh, E., & Baum, T. (2021). Job perceptions of Generation Z hotel employees towards working in COVID-19 quarantine hotels: the role of meaningful work. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 33(5), 1688-1710.
  • Lambert, C., & Goh, E. (2021). To toy or not to toy in supermarket instant reward programs. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 33(2), 513-525.
  •  Esfandiar, E., Dowling, R., Pearce, J., & Goh, E. (2021). What a load of rubbish! The efficacy of theory of planned behaviour and norm activation model in predicting visitors’ binning behaviour in national parks. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 46(Mar), 304-315.
  • Ying, T., Wang, K., Liu, X., Wen, J., & Goh, E. (2021). Rethinking game consumption in tourism: A case of the 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in China. Tourism Recreation Research, 46(2), 304-309.
  • Su, Z., Wen, J., McDonnell, D., Goh, E., Li, X., Segalo, S., Ahmad, J., Cheshmehzangi., & Xiang, Y. (2021). Vaccines are not yet a silver bullet: The imperative of continued communication about the importance of COVID-19 safety measures. Brain, Behaviour and Immunity, 12, 100204.
  • Su, Z., McDonnell, D., Wen, J., Cheshmehzangi, A., Ahmad, J., Goh, E., Li, X., Šegalo, D., Mackert, M., Xiang, Y.-T., & Wang, P. (2021). Young adults’ preferences for influenza vaccination campaign messages: Implications for COVID-19 vaccine intervention design and development. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health, 14(July), 100261.
  • Goh, E., & Kim, J. (2021). Emotional intelligence as a predictor of academic performance in hospitality higher education. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, 33, 140-143.
  • Goh, E., & Jun, W. (2021). Applying the Technology Acceptance Model to Understand Hospitality Management Students’ Intentions to Use Electronic Discussion Boards as a Learning Tool. Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, 21(2), 142-154.
  • Esfandiar, K., Dowling, R., Pearce, J., & Goh, E. (2020). Personal norms and the adoption of pro environmental binning behaviour in national parks: an integrated structural model approach. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 28(1), 10-32.
  • Wen, J., Huang, S., & Goh, E. (2020). Effects of perceived constraints and negotiation on learned helplessness: A study of Chinese senior outbound tourists. Tourism Management, 78(June), 104059.
  • Goh, E. (2020). Breaking the rules to venture off-trail at National Parks: Exploring salient beliefs through Planned Behaviour. Tourism Recreation Research, 45(2), 277-283.
  • Goh, E., & Okumus, F. (2020). Avoiding the hospitality workforce bubble: Strategies to attract and retain generation Z talent in the hospitality workforce. Tourism Management Perspectives,33(Jan).
  • Nyanjom, J., Goh, E., & Yang, E. (2020). Integrating authentic assessment tasks in work integrated learning hospitality internships. Journal of Vocational Education and Training.
  • Scerri, M., Presbury, R., & Goh, E. (2020). An application of the mentoring framework to investigate effectiveness of mentoring programs between industry mentors and student mentees in hospitality. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management,45(December), 143-151.
  • Wen, J., Klarin, A., Goh, E., & Aston, J. (2020). A systematic review of the sex trafficking related literature: Lessons for tourism and hospitality research. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 45(Dec), 370-376.
  • Goh, E., & Sigala, M. (2020). Integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into classroom instruction: teaching tips. Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, 20(2), 156-165.
  • Goh, E., & King, B. (2020). Four decades (1980-2020) of Hospitality and Tourism Higher Education in Australia: Developments and Future Prospects. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, 32(4), 266-272.
  • Goh, E. (2020). Educating the Future Hospitality and Tourism Workforce: Trends, Issues, and Directions in Australia and New Zealand. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, 32(4), 193.
  • Zheng, Y., Goh, E., & Wen, J. (2020). The effects of misleading media reports about COVID19 on Chinese              tourists’ mental health: a perspective article. Anatolia, 31(2), 337-340.
  • Wen, J., Yu, C., Huang, S., & Goh, E. (2020). Perceived constraint and negotiation of Chinese outbound senior tourists. Anatolia, 31(1), 149-153.