Rate My Professor Lisa Ruhanen

Ruhanen’s research interests include Indigenous tourism, sustainable tourism, tourism destination planning, knowledge management, governance, and climate change. She has authored or co-authored over 150 academic publications. Major works include the co-edited book Indigenous Tourism: Cases from Australia and New Zealand (2017) and Tourism, Global Crises and Justice: Tourism Transition to a More Just and Sustainable Future (2024). Highly influential publications are “The positive and negative impacts of tourism” (2012), “Trends and patterns in sustainable tourism research: A 25-year bibliometric analysis” (2015, 756 citations), “Local government: facilitator or inhibitor of sustainable tourism development?” (2013), “Governance: a review and synthesis of the literature” (2010), and “Indigenous peoples and tourism: The challenges and opportunities for sustainable tourism” (2016). Recent contributions feature “Climate change and tourism transition: from cosmopolitan to local justice” (2023, Annals of Tourism Research) and “Curating local voices to construct projected destination image: A case study of the ‘Join Me in Jamaica’ campaign” (2026, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management). In 2015-2016, she received maternity funding from the Queensland Government Advance Queensland Women's Academic Fund. Ruhanen teaches in the areas of sustainable and responsible tourism, ethics, and tourism in developing countries.