Alexandra Witte
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Dr Alexandra Witte

Lecturer

 0131 455 3824

  A.Witte@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Alex is Lecturer in Sustainable and Natural Area Tourism and the MSc Programme Leader for the dual programme of Hospitality and Tourism Management in cooperation with HTMi (Switzerland).

Alex joined the Tourism and Languages Subject Group at Napier in 2022. Before, she held various Assistant Professor and Lecturer positions at the polytechnic University of Hong Kong , Macau City University, and at Arizona State University's HAITC campus in Hainan, China.

Alex conducted her PhD research while working as Graduate Teaching Assistant at Leeds Beckett University. Her PhD titled 'A Mobile Ethnography of Walking Tourism on China's Ancient Tea Horse Road' focused on the discourses, experiences and practices of walking mobilities in the context of a large-scale heritage route in Yunnan Province.

Alex's research has since focused on various aspects of tourism mobilities, including the continuation of research related to walking tourism, and additional research strands focused on gendered experiences within tourism, as well as on tourism policy formulation in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Based on her research, she has been invited as guest speaker to other Universities, e.g. Hong Kong University and St Joseph University in Macau on several occasions.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • 2024 Symposium ‘Mobile Methods across Disciplines’

 

Invited Speaker

  • Invited Guest Speaker at University of Groningen

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Scholar St Joseph University of Macau

 

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Theorising Deep and Shallow Diversity: Critiquing The North Face’s Allyship in the Outdoors program

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Witte, A., & Stanley, P. (2025, August)
Theorising Deep and Shallow Diversity: Critiquing The North Face’s Allyship in the Outdoors program. Presented at Royal Geographical Society International Conference, Birmingham, UK
Recreational access to the outdoors is good for human bodyminds (Natural England, 2016a, 2016b). But for many reasons —conceptually divisible into tangible and intangible cons...

Hiking on Uneven Ground: Women’s Negotiations of Access and Inclusion in Scotland

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Witte, A. (2025, August)
Hiking on Uneven Ground: Women’s Negotiations of Access and Inclusion in Scotland. Presented at Royal Geographical Society International Conference, Birmingham
Although the Scottish Outdoor Access Code promises to empower everyone to enjoy nature, access is influenced by complex socio-cultural and structural factors. Neither access n...

(Im)mobilities on and of China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Witte, A. (2024, August)
(Im)mobilities on and of China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road. Presented at 35th International Geographical Congress, Dublin, Ireland
This research examines how various stakeholders’ practices on the ground mobilise and immobilise the history and heritage of China's Ancient Tea Horse Road as a historic trade...

Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown: the role of the tourist gaze

Journal Article
Wang, Q., & Witte, A. (2023)
Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown: the role of the tourist gaze. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 18(6), 768-784. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2252112
This study examines how diaspora tourists’ secondary and primary image of their ancestral home is constructed and how the tourist gaze is implied within. The study focuses on ...

Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of Covid-19 on Women in Tourism

Book Chapter
Muldoon, M. L., Witte, A., & Xu, Y.-H. M. (2023)
Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of Covid-19 on Women in Tourism. In Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in Covid-19 Affected Destinations (159-178). Channel View Publications. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845418762-012

Pandemic immobilities as provocative pauses: Reflections from Macau’s non-resident worker community

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Witte, A. (2022, June)
Pandemic immobilities as provocative pauses: Reflections from Macau’s non-resident worker community. Presented at 9th Critical Tourism Studies Conference, ' With in Dangerous Times', Maó, Menorca
This research explores the lived experience of waiting and its social implications in the context of travel restrictions and resulting immobilities for Macau’s non-resident wo...

Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Women in Tourism

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muldoon, M., Witte, A., & Xu, Y.-H. (. (2022, June)
Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Women in Tourism. Presented at 9th Critical Tourism Studies Conference, ' With in Dangerous Times', Maó, Menorca
It became evident early on in the pandemic that many of the impacts on livelihood, employment, income, and work mobilities are of a gendered nature (Assoumou Ella, 2021; Zulve...

Navigating tourism ethnographies – fieldwork embroiled in time, movement and emotion

Journal Article
Witte, A., Wilson, J., Burrai, E., & Dashper, K. (in press)
Navigating tourism ethnographies – fieldwork embroiled in time, movement and emotion. Current Issues in Tourism, https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2022.2057841
In this paper, we reflect on the challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in tourism research. Specifically, we discuss the intense, messy and complex dynamics of doing (tourism) ...

Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online

Journal Article
Muldoon, M. L., Witte, A., Guan, S., Fang, H. Y., Xie, Y., & Zhou, L. (in press)
Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online. Annals of Leisure Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1878379
This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and...

Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective

Journal Article
Witte, A. (in press)
Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective. Tourism Geographies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2021.1878269
Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking ...

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