Masters Dissertations
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The Masters Dissertations collection contains digital copies of AUT University masters dissertations deposited with the Library since 2007 and made available open access. From 2007 onwards, all dissertations for masters degrees awarded are required to be deposited in Tuwhera Open Theses & Dissertations unless subject to an embargo.
Dissertations submitted prior to 2007 are usually recorded in the AUT Library catalogue where the full text, if available, may be accessed with an AUT password. Other people should request an Interlibrary Loan through their library.
Dissertations are protected by the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand). The dissertation may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use:
- Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person.
- Authors control the copyright of their dissertation. You will recognise the author’s right to be identified as the author of the dissertation, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate.
- You will obtain the author’s permission before publishing any material from the dissertation.
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Satisfaction Factors of Tourists Staying in Queenstown’s Airbnbs: An Exploratory Study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Because satisfying customers is a persistent goal of the hospitality industry, many studies have aimed to determine the key factors of guest satisfaction. More recently, with the emergence of the sharing economy, Airbnb ... -
Travelling With Hanfu: A Social Media Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Travelling for Artistic Photographs
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Travelling with Hanfu is a new form of travel that has become popular among young people in contemporary China in recent years. Such travellers dress up in Hanfu (the traditional costume of the Han people) to visit tourist ... -
The Mediating Role of Boundary Flexibility in the Workload and Work Fatigue Relationship among New Zealand-Based Midwives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This dissertation adopts an organisational behavioural (OB) and management approach to explore the effects of boundary flexibility on role demands and personal wellbeing among New Zealand (NZ) midwives. The paper reviews ... -
Exploratory Research on the Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction of Chinese Guests Towards Serviced Apartments in Auckland, New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction have always been a topic of academic research, and it has increasingly been paid more attention because it directly affected customer experiences (Lu et al., 2015). Previous studies ... -
An Exploration Into the Sexual Harassment of Hospitality Interns: A Multiple-case Study of the United States, New Zealand and Australia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Sexual harassment has been considered as a persistent workplace problem in the hospitality industry, and it has been confirmed to influence both employees and organisations negatively. However, previous studies have ... -
Flexible leading spaces: An exploration of leader experiences of shared office spaces
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Despite widespread research into the topic of Flexible Learning Environments (FLE) in schools as well as government policies supporting a shift to FLE schools, the way that schools choose to provide workspaces for educational ... -
Risk and Drug-taking in Tourism: A Content Analysis of the Implementation of Drug Testing at New Zealand's Music Festivals for the Harm Minimisation of Young Festival Visitors
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)As in several other countries, the emergence of dance-music culture and ‘raves’ in New Zealand during the 1980s stimulated the relationship between drugs and youth, generating dynamic situations in which the ingesting of ... -
Status of International Study Tours in China: The Students’ and Parents’ Perspectives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)International study tours have a place in both the tourism and education markets. In recent years, international short-term study tours have become increasingly popular in China. A large number of students choose to ... -
Analysing Social Media Posts and Tourists’ Experiences in the Xi’an Muslim Quarter, China
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The Xi’an Muslim Quarter, in the central part of Xi’an City, China, is famous for its culture and food. It attracts visitors from all over the world each year. By analysing the contexts of online media, this research ... -
Food Events and the Experience Economy: A Netnographic Examination of the Case of Dîner En Blanc
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The ‘experience economy’ is a term that continues to be applied by tourism and hospitality researchers although it emerged over 20 years ago. According to Pine and Gilmore (1998), the next level after the service economy ... -
Analysing the Rhetoric of Accessibility: How Well Do New Zealand’s Hotel Restaurants Meet the Needs of Customers With Disabilities?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The concept of “accessible tourism” enables people with access requirements/disabilities, including mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive dimensions of access to function independently with equity and dignity through the ... -
Exploring Chinese Visitor Perspectives of Māori Indigenous Tourism
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Māori tourism is a key sector in differentiating New Zealand in the global tourism industry. Māori tourism provides for unique experiences for visitors showcasing culture as well as being a key industry for Māori economic ... -
What Is the Role of Culture and Family Influence on Career Decisions of Asian Tertiary Students?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Career decision-making is influenced by many factors. Culture and family influences are the main subjects of this research. Career decisions are made at different stages of an individual’s life. The focus of this research ... -
The Impact of Key Attributes in Nightclub Experience of Generation Z Customers: The Moderating Role of Gender
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This study examines generation Z customers’ nightclub experience and their impact on their satisfaction and loyalty, and further investigates the moderating role of gender difference in the relationships between nightclub ... -
Psychosocial Recovery From Disasters: A Māori Perspective
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Psychosocial wellbeing considers the interaction between psychological and social factors which contributes to overall wellbeing for individuals, families and communities. Impacts of disasters vary and pose a serious risk ... -
A Bite of YouDunZi: A Netnography Analysis of Shanghai Street Food
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Street food is a symbol of local culture but it is often neglected by gastronomy studies. This research examines the street food culture in Shanghai, to analyse why YouDunZi (a deep-fried turnip cake), a local street food, ... -
Innovation in Sporting Events Design: A Critical and Theoretical Examination
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Events are frequent and significant phenomena in contemporary society and academics have worked for some decades to try to better understand them. So far, event studies have investigated a variety of areas, of which event ... -
An Employee’s Living Wage and Their Quality of Work Life: Discussing the Importance of Work-life Balance in China
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The purpose of this research is to provide a literature review ofl iving wage and the links to work-life balance, ,vith a specific focus and application towards China.Theliterature focuses on the perspectives of both ... -
The Impacts of the Closure of Stuff On the Surviving Titles and Advertisers
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)The closure of Stuff has brought significant impact on the market and we aim to empirically analyze the response of surviving newspaper titles. We create our original dataset by manually collecting data, in terms of content ... -
Rice and Beans, Fish and Chips: Investigating Brazilian Immigrant Families’ Experiences of Eating and Nourishing in New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Immigration has been a common practice in human society since the earliest times (United Nations, 2019). Whatever the reasons behind people migrating, it is a complex movement that involves a chain of changes in their ...