Sara Dolnicar

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Full Name	Sara Dolnicar
Occupation	Researcher
Date Of Birth	Jan 9, 1972(1972-01-09)
Age	52
Birthplace	Ljubljana
Country	Slovenia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Sara Dolnicar Biography

Sara Dolnicar is one of the most popular and richest Researcher who was born on January 9, 1972 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sara Dolnicar (born January 9 1972, in Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a social scientist who studied in Austria and focusing on markets segmentation and sustainable tourism and Airbnb. Since 2013, she is a Research Professor of Tourism at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She was recognized in the Republic of Slovenia for her research accomplishments.

Dolnicar accepted an academic teaching/research position full-time beginning in 2002, as Senior Lecturer at the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong in Australia She was promoted to an full professor in the year 2006, a relatively young. She was for two terms an Director of Research and Associate Dean (Research) in Commerce and was the founding Director for the Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research. She has been awarded more than four million dollars in funding and was given the Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship of AUD$1.46 million in 2010 to study market segmentation. This was the largest amount of an ARC Discovery Scheme grant that year. In 2011, the UOW’s tourism research, which included Dolnicar’s, was awarded a 5 score from ARC as the sole ARC tourism research institute in Australia. The board was hers. Tourism Wollongong. In 2013, she was appointed a research professor at The University of Queensland in the former School of Tourism. She was granted the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in the year 2019.

Dolnicar received the Ambassador of Science Award of the Republic of Slovenia at an award ceremony held on November 21, 2016 in the country’s capital and Dolnicar’s birthplace, Ljubljana. The Ambassador of Science award is the highest national prize the Republic of Slovenia awards to expatriate native Slovenian researchers in recognition of their global research excellence, the high impact of their work as well as their active engagement in international knowledge transfer. The US-based Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA) awarded her the Distinguished Researcher Award (2017) for ground- breaking research that positively impacts the tourism industry, and outstanding service to the tourism research community. In the Association’s 48-year history this award has been given to only four people.

Dolnicar’s research has contributed to the improvement of market segmentation methodology, measures in the social sciences, and the development and testing of measures to improve the environmental sustainability of tourism. In August 2017, she did a TEDxUQ talk on her sustainable tourism research. Dolnicar also researches public perceptions and acceptance of water conservation and water from alternative sources such as recycled water, including media inaccuracy and bias. She has also studied attracting high-quality foster carers, and researched how to restore tourism to areas hit by disasters, by identifying “resilient travellers”. She has studied attendance of lectures by undergraduate students.

Dolnicar is a native of Ljubljana, Slovenia, grew up in Vienna, Austria, and was relocated to Australia in 2002. She is married and has two kids.

Sara Dolnicar Net Worth

Sara Dolnicar is one of the richest Researcher from Slovenia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sara Dolnicar 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dolnicar completed a Magister degree in Business Administration in 1994, equivalent to a combined Bachelor and master’s degree, and was awarded her Ph.D. in 1996 by the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien) on “Vacation Expectations of Summer Tourists in Austria – a Psychographic Taxonomy Using Neural Network Techniques”, supervised by Professor Josef Mazanec. Dolnicar is also a Magister degree in Psychology in Psychology from the University of Vienna in 1998.

Dolnicar was employed by in the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) Institute for Tourism and Leisure Studies with short-term contracts throughout the course of her Ph.D. as well as a psychology master’s degree. From 1998 to 2002 she worked as a researcher within an Centre of Excellence funded by the FWF (the Austrian research funding body) with a fixed-term half- time contract. She also had the privilege of performing administrative duties such as serving as the Secretary General for the Austrian Society for Applied Research in Tourism.

Dolnicar is an elected fellow of three societies for tourism researchers, the International Academy for the Study of Tourism in 2013, the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST), and the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE). She has won a number of awards, including the Charles R. Goeldner Article of Excellence Award for the best paper published in the preceding year in the Journal of Travel Research (in 2004 and 2016), the UQ Excellence in Research Supervision award (2017), the Travel and Tourism Research Association’s Distinguished Researcher Award recognizing Dolnicar as a valuable resource in the tourism research community (2017), the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies (ACWA) Service Partnership Award and the University of Wollongong Research Excellence Award for Senior Researcher.

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