Dr. Adam Weaver
Niagara College, Canadá
Abridged Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Adam Weaver
Professor (Bachelor of Business Administration – Hospitality)
School of Hospitality, Tourism and Sport
Niagara College Canada
135 Taylor Road, S.S. #4
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
L0S 1J0
Telephone: (905) 641 2252 ext. 4092
E-mail: adweaver@niagaracollege.ca
Education
• PhD, Department of Geography, University of Toronto (2003)
• Master of Arts, Department of Geography, University of Toronto (1998)
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours, 1st Class), Department of Geography, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada (1996)
Employment History
• Niagara College Canada, Professor, School of Hospitality, Tourism and Sport (as of early December 2016)
• Victoria University of Wellington, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management and Deputy Head of School in the School of Management (July 2016 to early December 2016)
• Victoria University of Wellington, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management (January 2016 to June 2016)
• Victoria University of Wellington, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management and Deputy Head of School in the School of Management (March 2013 to December 2016)
• Victoria University of Wellington, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management and Director of the Bachelor of Tourism Management (2008 to 2013)
• Victoria University of Wellington, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management (2007 to 2008)
• Victoria University of Wellington, Lecturer in Tourism Management (2003 to 2006)
• University of Toronto, Contract Lecturer in the Department of Geography (2001 to 2002)
• From February to April of 2016, I was a Visiting International Scholar in the Department of Tourism Management at Brock University in Canada
• From January to June of 2011, I was a Visiting International Scholar in the Department of Tourism and Environment at Brock University in Canada
Journal Articles
Tran, M., & Weaver, A. (in press). Intra-National Travel and Familiarization with a New
“Home”: Travelling Professional Workers in Vietnam. Tourism Review International.
Weaver, A. (in press/available). Statistics, Publicity, and Industry Intervention: Changing
Depictions of the Chinese Outbound Travel Market in New Zealand Newspapers. Tourism and Hospitality Research.
• This article has not been assigned to an issue of this journal but it can be downloaded from the Tourism and Hospitality Research website.
Weaver, A. (in press/available). Complementary Contrasts in a Mobile World: “In-
Betweenness” and the Selling of Duty-Free Products. International Journal of
Tourism Research.
• This article has not been assigned to an issue of this journal but it can be downloaded from the International Journal of Tourism Research website.
Moularde, J., & Weaver, A. (in press/available). Serious About Leisure, Serious About
Destinations: Mountain Bikers and Destination Attractiveness. Journal of Sport and Tourism.
• This article has not been assigned to an issue of this journal but it can be downloaded from the Journal of Sport and Tourism website.
Weaver, A. (in press/available). Scandals, the Mass Media, and the Politics of Extreme
Visibility: Conflict and Controversy at the Niagara Park Commission. Current Issues in Tourism.
• This article has not been assigned to an issue of this journal but it can be downloaded from the Current Issues in Tourism website.
Weaver, A. (2015). Target Markets as Working Archetypes: Classifying Consumers at
Tourism New Zealand. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 21(2), 163-174.
Weaver, A. (2012). Written Complaints, Third-Party Intervention, and the Management of
Paradoxes: Integrating Extremes. Tourism Analysis, 17(2), 259-272.
Weaver, A. (2011). Tourism and the Military: Pleasure and the War Economy. Annals of
Tourism Research, 38(2), 672-689.
Weaver, A. (2011). The Fragmentation of Markets, Neo-Tribes, Nostalgia, and the Culture of
Celebrity: The Rise of Themed Cruises. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 18(1), 54-60.
Weaver, A. (2011). Pursuing Jobs and Promotions: University Graduates in Tourism as
Enterprising Self-Marketers. Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism, 10(1), 80-95.
Weaver, A. (2010). Vacations as Sweepstake Prizes: Tourism in the Service of Selling.
Tourism Review International, 13(4), 263-273.
Weaver, A. (2009). Tourism and Aesthetic Design: Enchantment, Style, and Commerce.
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 7(3), 179-189.
Weaver, A. (2009). Perceptions of Job Quality in the Tourism Industry: The Views of Recent
Graduates of a University’s Tourism Management Programme. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 21(5), 579-593.
Weaver, A. (2008). When Tourists Become Data: Consumption, Surveillance, and
Commerce. Current Issues in Tourism, 11(1), 1-23.
Weaver, A. (2007). Product Placement and Tourism-Oriented Environments: An Exploratory
Introduction. International Journal of Tourism Research, 9(4), 275-284.
Weaver, A. (2005). The McDonaldization Thesis and Cruise Tourism. Annals of Tourism
Research, 32(2), 346-366.
Weaver, A. (2005). Spaces of Containment and Revenue Capture: “Super-Sized” Cruise
Ships as Mobile Tourism Enclaves. Tourism Geographies, 7(2), 165-184.
Weaver, A. (2005). “Passports to Pleasure”: Credit Cards and Contemporary Travel.
International Journal of Tourism Research, 7(3), 151-159.
Weaver, A. (2005). Representation and Obfuscation: Cruise Travel and the Mystification of
Production. Tourism, Culture & Communication, 5(3), 165-176.
Weaver, A. (2005). Interactive Service Work and Performative Metaphors: The Case of the
Cruise Industry. Tourist Studies, 5(1), 5-27.
Schänzel, H., Smith, K., & Weaver, A. (2005). Family Holidays: A Research Review and
Application to New Zealand. Annals of Leisure Research, 8(2/3), 105-123.
Stuart, P., Pearce, D., & Weaver, A. (2005). Tourism Distribution Channels in Peripheral
Regions: The Case of Southland, New Zealand. Tourism Geographies, 7(3), 235-256.
Book Chapters
Weaver, A. (in press). Tourism Industry Adaptation to a Changing Consumer Market: A
Case Study of New Zealand. The Routledge Handbook of Consumer Behaviour in Hospitality and Tourism, edited by S. Dixit. New York: Routledge.
Weaver, A. (in press). High Fees on the High Seas? The Importance of Shipboard Revenue
Streams to the Cruise Industry. Cruise Ship Tourism, edited by R. Dowling and C. Weeden. Wallingford, Oxfordshire: CAB International.
Weaver, A. (in press). Encyclopedia entry for “Currency, Travellers’ Checks, and Credit
Cards”. The Sage International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism, edited by L. Lowry and G. Golson. Los Angeles: Sage.
Weaver, A. (in press). Encyclopedia entry for “Duty-Free Sales”. The Sage International
Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism, edited by L. Lowry and G. Golson. Los Angeles: Sage.
Weaver, A. (in press). Encyclopedia entry for “Military Tourism”. In Encyclopedia of
Tourism, edited by J. Jafari and H. Xiao. New York: Springer.
Duval, D., & Weaver, A. (2017). Transport and Infrastructure Issues in Asian Tourism. The
Routledge Handbook on Tourism in Asia, edited by C.M. Hall and S.J. Page. New York: Routledge.
Weaver, A. (2014). Representation, Commerce, and Consumption: The Cruise Industry and
the Ocean. In Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present: Envisaging the Sea as Social Space, edited by T. Cusack. London: Ashgate, pp. 117-129.
Weaver, A. (2012). Encyclopedia entry for “Global Tourism’. In The Encyclopedia of
Globalization, edited by G. Ritzer. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1980-1983.
Weaver, A. (2011). “It’s the People You Know”: Using Demographic Data in the
Marketing and Management of Tourism. In Tourism and Demography, edited by I. Yeoman, C. Hsu, K. Smith, and S. Watson. Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers, pp. 165-177.
Weaver, A. (2010). Cafés, Culture, and Consumption: Urban(e) Tourism in Wellington, New
Zealand. In Coffee Culture, Destinations, and Tourism, edited by L. Jolliffe. Clevedon: Channel View Publications, pp. 41-52.
Weaver, A. (2009). The McDonaldization Thesis and Cruise Tourism. In McDonaldization:
The Reader, edited by G. Ritzer. London: Sage, pp. 241-256.
Weaver, A. (2008). Complexity at Sea: Managing Brands within the Cruise Industry. In
Tourism Management: Analysis, Behaviour and Strategy, edited by A. Woodside and D. Martin. Cambridge, Massachusetts: CAB International, pp. 269-284.
Weaver, A., & Duval, D. (2008). International and Transnational Aspects of the Global
Cruise Industry. In International Business and Tourism: Global Issues, Contemporary Interactions, edited by C.M. Hall and T. Coles. London: Routledge, pp. 106-123.
Weaver, A. (2006). The Disneyization of Cruise Travel. In Cruise Ship Tourism, edited by R.
Dowling. Cambridge, Massachusetts, CAB International, pp. 389-396.
Book Reviews
Weaver, A. (2016). Book Review Essay – Seemingly Distant Yet Deeply Connected:
Tourism and Its Opposites. American Quarterly, 68(3), 793-801.
Weaver, A. (2012). Review of The Tourism State: Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race
in New Zealand by Margaret Werry. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 10(4), 338-340.
Weaver, A. (2008). Review of Nautical Tourism: Concepts and Issues edited by M. Lück.
Annals of Tourism Research, 35(4), 1086-1088.
Weaver, A. (2007). Review of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation: Environment,
Place and Space (3rd edition) by C.M. Hall and S. Page. Annals of Tourism Research, 34(1), 276-277.
Recent Conference Presentations and Posters
Weaver, A. (2014). Seeing Chinese Tourists Differently: Representations, Tension,
and Management. Paper presented at The Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference. Brisbane, Australia. February 10-13.
Weaver, A. (2011). Paradox and the Power of Metaphor: Serious Complaints in the
Tourism Industry. Poster displayed at the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) Conference. London, Ontario, Canada. June 19-22.
Contributions to the Research Environment and Peer Esteem
• I am a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism Analysis, and Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (an academic journal published in Turkey).
• I have refereed manuscripts submitted to Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, International Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism Analysis, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Current Issues in Tourism, Tourism Geographies, Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, Journal of Vacation Marketing, Tourism and Hospitality Research, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Tourist Studies, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Ecotourism, Tourism Review International, Annals of Leisure Research, and Leisure/Loisir.