Dianne Dredge is director of The Tourism CoLab, an Australian-based, online tourism education agency and change making consultancy. She is also co-founder of Designing Tourism, a social enterprise that delivers experimental projects that shift how destinations, communities and governments plan, manage and engage in the future of tourism.
Prior to joining academia in 2002, Dianne worked as an environmental and urban planner in Australia, Canada, Mexico, China and Europe. In 2019, Dianne left university employment to start The Tourism Colab.
Experience
Dianne has provided tourism policy analysis and advice on digitalization and collaborative economy to international organizations such as the OECD and the European Commission.
At local levels she has delivered destination management plans and organizational change journeys.
Memberships and Committees
Elected member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism
Education
2001
PhD
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1989
Master of Arts
University of Waterloo
1984
Bachelor of Regional and Town Planning
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Awards
2007
National Citation for Excellence in Teaching
Australia
Publications
Dredge, D. 2022. Regenerative tourism: shifting mindsets, systems and practices, Journal of Tourism Futures.
Cave, J. & Dredge, D. (2020). Regenerative tourism needs diverse economic practices, Tourism Geographies, May 2020.
Cave, J. & Dredge, D. (2018). Reworking Tourism: Diverse Economies in a Changing World, Tourism Planning and Development 15(5): 473-477.
Phi, G. & Dredge, D. (2019). Collaborative tourism-making: An interdisciplinary review of co-creation and a future research agenda, Tourism Recreation Research, 44: 284-299.
Baker, H. & Dredge, D. (2019). Political identity and global citizenship in travel and tourism. Hospitality & Society, Special Issue in Tourism, ethics and global citizenship.
Dredge, D. (2018). Rescuing policy in tourism network research, Via@ Tourism Review. International Journal, Multilingual Interdisciplinary http://viatourismreview.com/ (forthcoming)
Lopes, M. and Dredge, D. (2018). Cruise tourism shore excursions: Value for destinations? Tourism Planning and Development.
Dredge, D. & Gyimóthy, S. (2017). Collaborative Economy & Tourism: Policy, Prospects and Perspectives. Springer Publishing, Cham, Switzerland.
Dredge, D., Airey, D & Gross, M.J. (2015) The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Hospitality Education. Abingdon: Routledge.