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Professional and Teaching Experience
Dr Twan Huybers was educated in The Netherlands where he worked in the private sector for four years. He has a Masters degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Maastricht and joined the School of Business at UNSW@ADFA in 1994. In 2001 he completed his doctoral research at UNSW in which he investigated the effects of environmental management on the competitiveness of nature-based tourism destinations.
His research interests include the economics of tourism and the application of choice modelling methods to various decision making contexts. His choice modelling related work includes applications to tourist destination choices, household discretionary expenditure decisions, museum visitation choices, athletes’ decisions on the use of performance enhancing drugs, and student evaluations of university teaching.
Twan was awarded the Taylor and Francis Prize for the best paper by a researcher new to the field of tertiary education research at the 2009 conference of HERDSA (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia). He is a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of Choice at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Research Fellow of the Tourism and Travel Research Institute at Nottingham University Business School.
Twan has been involved in the teaching of economics at all undergraduate levels. He received the 2001 UNSW@ADFA Teaching Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in teaching, and a 2005 Rector's Commendation for excellence in teaching.
Selected recent publications
Books/monographs
Tourism in Developing Countries, 2007, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Tourism and the competition for discretionary expenditure, Technical Report 2005, Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism (with G. Crouch, T. Devinney, S. Dolnicar, J. Louviere and H. Oppewal).
Substitution between tourism destinations - An application of discrete choice modelling, Technical Report 2005, Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism (with T. Mules).
Environmental Management and the Competitiveness of Nature-Based Tourism Destinations, 2002, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with Jeff Bennett).
Journal Articles
‘Tourism and discretionary income allocation – Heterogeneity among households’, Tourism Management, 2008, 29(1): 44-52 (with S. Dolnicar, G. Crouch, T. Devinney, J. Louviere and H. Oppewal (2008).
‘Different tourists – different perceptions of different places: Accounting for tourists’ perceptual heterogeneity in destination image measurement’, Tourism Analysis, 2007, 12: 447-461 (with S. Dolnicar).
The effect of international tourism on economic development: an empirical analysis, Asia-Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 2005, 10(1): 23-43 (with D Skerritt).
'Modelling short-break holiday destination choices', Tourism Economics, 2003, 9(4): 389-405.
'Domestic tourism destination choices - A choice modelling analysis', International Journal of Tourism Research, 2003, 5: 445-459.
'Environmental Management and the Competitiveness of Nature-Based Tourism Destinations', Environmental and Resource Economics, 2003, 24(3): 213-233 (with J. Bennett).
'Inter-firm cooperation at nature-based tourism destination', Journal of Socio-Economics, 2003, 32(5):571-587 (with Jeff Bennett).
Book Chapters
'Tourism in developing countries - Introduction', in Huybers, T. (ed) Tourism in Developing Countries, 2007, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
'Inter-firm Cooperation at Nature-Based Tourism Destinations' in S. Flanagan, J. Ruddy, and N. Andrews (eds), Tourism Destination Planning, 2002, Dublin: Dublin Institute of Technology.
Refereed Conference Papers
‘Best-Worst Scaling: a ‘magnifying glass’ method for university teaching evaluation’, paper presented at the 2009 conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Darwin, July 2009.
‘Museum Visitors Care about Everything! Using Best-Worst Scaling for Strategic Focus’, paper presented at the 2007 conference of the Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy, Dunedin, December 2007 (with P. Burke, C. Burton, J. Louviere and C. Wise.
'Towards a Choice Model of Athletes' Decision to Use Performance Enhancing Substances or Methods: Factors and Covariates', paper presented at the 2006 ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference, Methods for Investigating performance Enhancing Drug Use Stream, University of Sydney, 2006 (with T. O'Donnell and J. Mazanov).
'Tourism Discretionary Spending Choice Behaviour', Australia New Zealand marketing Academy Conference, Fremants, 2005 (with G. Crouch, T. Devinney, S. Dolnicar, J. Louviere and H. Oppewal).
'New horses for old courses - Questioning the limitations of sustainable tourism to supply-driven measures and the nature-based contexts', Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, Fremantle, 2005 (with G. Crouch, T. Devinney, S. Dolnicar, T. Huybers, J. Louviere and H. Oppewal).
Research Grants - External competitive grants
2006/2009 |
$52,000 |
2005/2007 |
$160,000 |
2004/2006 |
$109.273 - Australian Research Council - Linkage Project |
2004 |
$45,000 - Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism |
2001/2002 |
$57,714 - Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism |