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Dr Aaron Tkaczynski

Senior Lecturer

School of Business
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
a.tkaczynski@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 67093

Overview

Dr Aaron Tkaczynski is a Senior Lecturer in both tourism and events in the School of Business in the Faculty of Business, Economics & Law. He has been employed at the University of Queensland in a research capacity since 2009. Since 2021 he has also had an extra-ordinary Associate Professor position in the Tourism Research in Economics, Environs and Society (TREES) department at North-West University in Potchefstroom in South Africa. Aaron's research expertise and experience stems from market segmentation modelling and he publishes within this field in journals such as Tourism Management and the Journal of Travel Research. Dr Tkaczynski is also very interested in tourism seasonality, social marketing and small-scale festivals. Aaron is also a Christian and actively researches and volunteers for many Christian orientated events such as festivals and leadership conferences. Prior to academia, Aaron was employed in local government (Hervey Bay City Council, Redland Shire Council and the Local Government Association of Queensland). Whilst now a full-time Senior Lecturer, Aaron consults for local government and in 2021 will be part of a research team that will co-design and implement a community engagement and threat mitigation initiatives in partnership with local governments to support Koala Conservation in South East Queensland.

Research Interests

  • Nature-based tourism
    Understanding the motivations and behaviour of tourists seeking to experience activities in a nature-based context.
  • Market segmentation
    Understanding new methods on how to profile people (e.g. customers, tourists) into valid solutions.
  • Social marketing
    Influencing individual behaviour for common good.

Research Impacts

Dr Tkaczynski’s research in events and tourism has been of interest to the wider community. He has delivered segmentation solutions for organisations as diverse as Easterfest (Australia), the Winnipeg Fringe Festival (Canada) and Johannesburg International Mozart Festival (South Africa). This research has used both on-line and in-person surveys to identify attendee’s motivations and behaviour (e.g. satisfaction) of attendees. Aaron has debriefed research committees on how event organisers can best use the results to inform future marketing and communication plans. These results have been used by the event organisers in their future marketing strategies (e.g. targeting a regional socially-focused segment). Aaron has been interviewed by industry personnel (e.g. South African Broadcasting Corporation and Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio) relating to insight from his projects. He is also very active in the religious community. For example, he has conducted in-kind research into the market segmentation of attendees to a Queensland Baptist conference (NeoLeaders) over a four year (2013-2016) period.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Business(Hons), Queensland University of Technology
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southern Queensland

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Book

  • Tourism investment in Australia: A scoping study

    Driml, Sally, Robinson, Jacqui, Tkaczynski, Aaron and Dwyer, Larry (2010). Tourism investment in Australia: A scoping study. CRC for Sustainable Tourism. Monograph series Gold Coast, Australia: CRC For Sustainable Tourism.

Book Chapter

  • Leaf collective

    Cordova, Luisa Lopez, Xi, Yue, Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn, Anibaldi, Renata, Tkaczynski, Aaron, Pham, Cuong and Salamone, Vanessa (2023). Leaf collective. Social Marketing. (pp. 249-265) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003200086-21

  • Environmental-focused events: saving tourism landmarks for future generations

    Ye, Qing and Tkaczynski, Aaron (2017). Environmental-focused events: saving tourism landmarks for future generations. Advances in hospitality and leisure. (pp. 155-163) edited by Joseph S. Chen. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing. doi: 10.1108/S1745-354220170000013013

  • Segmentation using two-step cluster analysis

    Tkaczynski, Aaron (2017). Segmentation using two-step cluster analysis. Segmentation in social marketing: process, methods and application. (pp. 109-125) edited by Timo Dietrich, Sharyn Rundle-Thiele and Krzysztof Kubacki. Singapore, Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-1835-0_8

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This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

tourism, seasonality, whale watching, small-scale festivals, Christian events, koalas, social marketing

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