Dr Manisha Agarwal ~ Lecturer Business / Senior Manager Professional Recognition & Personal Data Protection

Dr. Manisha Agarwal is working with the Singapore campus of James Cook University (JCU) as a Lecturer in Business and Psychology programs. With a background in Psychology and PhD in Tourism, she takes on a multidisciplinary approach to deliver engaging and meaningful learning experiences for her undergraduate and post graduate students. Her research interests include tourist behaviour and understanding of underlying psychological processes in tourists. She is also interested in exploring different methodology to learn more about tourist behaviour and tourism phenomenon such as destination management and loyalty as well as responsible tourism. She has worked on many collaborative projects with other faculties and published articles in top ranking journals. She is actively involved with leading journals as a reviewer of research papers.

Teaching

• BX2091: Tourism and Leisure Management (Level 2; SIN)
• BX2094: Conference and Events Management (Level 2; SIN)
• PY5405: Major Project (Level 5; SIN)
• TO2051: Innovation for Tourism, Hospitality and Events Futures (Level 2; SIN)

Interests

Research

• Tourist Behaviour, Destination Loyalty, Repeat Tourism, Sustainable and Responsible Tourism

Experience

• 2020 to present - Lecturer, James Cook University Singapore (Singapore)
• 2019 to present - Senior Manager, Professional Recognition and Personal Data Protection, James Cook University, Singapore (Singapore)
• 2017 to 2019 - Senior Manager, Accreditation, Policy, Security (Data Protection) and Review, James Cook University, Singapore (Singapore)
• 2012 to 2017 - Senior Manager, Strategic Planning and Review, James Cook University, Singapore (Singapore)

Research Disciplines

• Tourism (3508)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Tourism services (1104)

Awards

• 2023 - Quarterly Employee Recognition Award: Feather in your Cap: 1st Quarter 2023
• 2021 - Engagement Excellence Awards 2021: Professional engagement award James Cook University Singapore
• 2021 - Corporate staff Excellence Awards 2021: Professional Team award for Excellence James Cook University Singapore
• 2021 - Vice Chancellor 2021 Awards for Excellence: Innovation and Change , 1st Award, James Cook University Australia
• 2021 - Quarterly Employee Recognition Award: Feather in your Cap: 1st Quarter 2021
• 2020 - BEST PAPER AWARD: Oktadiana, H., Agarwal, M. et al., (2020). “Local Food Power: Nudging Tourists Motivation to Visit Padang Indonesia” 8th international Tourism Studies Association Biennial Conference
• 2014 - Innovator of the Year Award, James Cook University Singapore

Memberships

• 2019 - Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA)
• 2017 - AACSB Member
• 2015 - Professional member of International Association of Privacy Professional, USA

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Journal Articles

• Agarwal M, Pearce P, Oktadiana H, Bhati A and Josiassen A (2023) Does the travel career pattern model work for repeat tourists? Tourism Recreation Research,
• Bhati A, Mohammadi Z, Agarwal M, Kamble Z and Donough-Tan G (2022) Post COVID-19: cautious or courageous travel behaviour? Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 27 (6). pp. 581-600
• Bhati A and Agarwal M (2021) Vandalism control: perception of multi-stakeholder involvement in attraction management. Current Issues in Tourism, 24 (17). pp. 2374-2380
• Bhati A, Mohammadi Z, Agarwal M, Kamble Z and Donough-Tan G (2021) Motivating or manipulating: the influence of health-protective behaviour and media engagement on post-COVID-19 travel. Current Issues in Tourism, 24. pp. 2008-2092
• Bhati A, Agarwal M, Tjayaindera D, Aung R, Thu M and Nguyen T (2021) Dark tourism in SouthEast Asia: are young Asian travelers up for it? International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management, 22 (5). pp. 550-566
• Oktadiana H, Pearce P, Pusiran A and Agarwal M (2017) Travel career patterns: the motivations of Indonesian and Malaysian muslim tourists. Tourism Culture and Communication, 17 (4). pp. 231-248

Book Chapters

• Oktadiana H and Agarwal M (2022) Travel Career Pattern Theory of Motivation. In: Routledge Handbook of Social Psychology of Tourism. Routledge, Abingdon, England, pp. 76-86

Conference Papers

• Agarwal M and Pearce P (2019) Back to India again: motivational insights from the travel career pattern approach. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference. In: CAUTHE 2019: 29th Annual Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference: sustainability of tourism, hospitality & events in a disruptive digital age, 11-14 February 2019, Cairns, QLD, Australia

Other research outputs

• Agarwal M, Chong T, Eijdenberg E, Mukherjee M and Wood J (in press) Putting the Tropics on the academic map: The Raison d’Être of the SEIGOP Conference. Innovation-Driven Business and Sustainability in the Tropics: Proceedings of the Sustainability, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Organisational Psychology Conference 2023. In: SEIGOP 2023: Sustainability, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Organisational Psychology Conference, 1-3 March 2023, Singapore
• K. T, Azzali S, Kamble Z, Prabhugaonkar Y and Agarwal M (2022) In focus 5 – religious tourism in the urban setting of Varanasi in India. In: Handbook of Niche Tourism. Research Handbooks in Tourism series. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 328-330
• Agarwal M (2022) Repeat Tourism. In: Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 673-676