Rate My Professor Michael Hall

Professor C. Michael Hall served as Professor of Tourism in the Department of Tourism, School of Business at the University of Otago from October 1997 to December 2006, during which he headed the department for six years. He holds a doctorate in geography from the University of Western Australia, with a thesis on wilderness and international heritage agreements in Australia; an honours degree in politics from the University of Western Australia, focusing on water resource management of the Peel Inlet; and a master's degree from the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada, on hydroelectricity and wilderness policy in Tasmania. Earlier in his career, Hall was one of the first appointees to Massey University Auckland in 1993.

Hall's research specializations include tourism geography, international marketing, regional development, global environmental change and climate change, sustainability and circular market practices, biodiversity conservation, biosecurity, food, wine and beverage marketing, place branding, World Heritage, social marketing, behavioural interventions, active transport, resilience, governance, and the interrelationships between ecology, biogeography, and social sciences. He has authored or edited numerous influential books, such as Tourism Planning: Policies, Processes and Relationships (2008, 3790 citations), The Geography of Tourism and Recreation: Environment, Place and Space (2014, 3756 citations), Tourism and Politics: Policy, Power and Place (1994, 2309 citations), Hallmark Tourist Events: Impacts, Management and Planning (1992, 2016 citations), and Pandemics, Tourism and Global Change: A Rapid Assessment of COVID-19 (2020, 7823 citations). His work has appeared in leading journals including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and Current Issues in Tourism. Hall has held professorial positions at the University of Canterbury, Victoria University of Wellington, and currently serves as Dean's Chair in Marketing Sustainability & Society at Massey University Business School. He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Umeå (2008), Oulu (2012), and Lund (2016), the Elsevier ScienceDirect ‘For Great Thinking’ award (2009), and induction into the urban tourism research hall of fame (2024).