Nadja Schweiggart

I am a researcher in sustainable tourism with a Ph.D. (2025) from the University of Hamburg, Germany, a Bachelor's degree in Tourism Management (B.A.) from Heilbronn UAS as well as a Master's (M.Sc.) in International Business Economics and Management from KU Leuven, Belgium.

Previous to joining the Department of Marketing and Tourism Studies at LNU, I was a research associate at the Chair of Marketing and Innovation at the Socioeconomics Department at the University of Hamburg (UHH). At UHH, I taught various lectures, exercises and seminars on Marketing, market-oriented management and tourism.

Before transitioning to academia, I worked in international marketing at the German National Tourist Board in Brussels and as a strategy consultant for tourism destinations in Germany.

Research

My research specialises in sustainable tourism and transport through the lens of equity and environmental economics. It is interdisciplinary by nature, embracing geography, socioeconomics, sociology, political science, and psychology. I aim to contribute to a more sustainable future in terms of tourism and mobility by shedding light on the larger systemic interrelationships of the tourism industry, transport sector, society, and political arena.

Beyond that, part of my research is embedded within the Horizon Europe research project "Urban Burden of Disease Estimation for Policy Making", which is aimed at estimating the health and socioeconomic costs and benefits of air quality, noise, lack of urban green spaces, heat and temperature, physical activity, inequity for nearly 1,000 European cities in EU and monitors 3-year trends and impacts of urban planning, transport planning and environmental policies.
Consortium partners: Barcelona Institute for Global Health, University of Cambridge, Health and Environment Alliance, Linnaeus University, Utrecht University, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
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My work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Cities, Journal of Ecotourism, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, and the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, among others.

You can access my research here: Google Scholar

Selection of publications (peer-reviewed)

• Gössling, S., Hopkins, D., Schweiggart, N., Cohen, S., Cocolas, N., and Higham, J. 2025. Beyond the rhetoric of 'sustainable aviation': a counterfactual confrontation. Journal of Travel Research, https://10.1177/00472875251411867
  
  
• Schweiggart, N., Simonn, F.C., & Kock. F. (2025). Do Not Touch: Understanding Travelers’ Implicit Attitudes Towards Close Wildlife Interactions and the Power of Animal-Welfare Warning Messages. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 
  
  
• Simonn, F., Schweiggart, N., Shah, A. M., & Sun, H. (2025). Commuting mode and university students’ wellbeing: Investigating the role of effort on subjective wellbeing and perceived autonomy. Journal of Transport & Health, 42, 102017.
  
  
• Schweiggart, N., Shah, A. M., Qayyum, A., & Jamil, R. A. (2025). Navigating negative experiences: how do they influence tourists’ psychological and behavioral responses to tourism service failures on social media. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 1-23.
  
  
• Gössling, S., Schweiggart, N., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., McEachan, R. R. C., & Khreis, H. (2024). Urban transport system changes in the UK: In danger of populism?. Cities, 153, 105273.
  
  
• Schweiggart, N. (2024). Mapping the role of animal welfare in tourism: examining discourses in tourism research and beyond using a bibliometric co-occurrence analysis of author keywords. Journal of Ecotourism, 1-28.
  
  
• Teichert, T., González-Martel, C., Hernández, J. M., & Schweiggart, N. (2024). Dynamics in accommodation feature preferences: exploring the use of time series analysis of online reviews for decomposing temporal effects. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 36(7), 2521-2541.
  
  
• Shah, A. M., & Schweiggart, N. (2023). #BoycottMurree campaign on twitter: Monitoring public response to negative destination events during a crisis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 92, 103734.
  
  
• Gössling, S., & Schweiggart, N. (2022). Two years of COVID-19 and tourism: What we learned, and what we should have learned. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 30(4), 915-931.
  Most read publication in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism in 2022