Sandhiya Goolaup is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Business and Economics, Department of Marketing and Tourism Studies. She received a doctoral degree from University of Gothenburg in November 2018 for her thesis entitled ‘On Consumer Experience and the Extraordinary’.
Her research interests, since then has revolved around areas such as tourists experience, transformative experience, value creation, consumer behavior, destination development, and event studies. In her research, she uses mainly qualitative research methods such as phenomenology and grounded theory.
Sandhiya's work features in journals such as Journal of Travel Research,Tourism Management and Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.
Research
More about my research can be seen in the following page:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Be8Ys68AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
We are accredited
The School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, AACSB.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Goolaup, S., Nunkoo, R. (2023). Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences. Journal of Travel Research. 62 (2). 399-411.
Status: Published -
Purohit, S., Arora, R., Nunkoo, R., Goolaup, S., Das, M. (2023). Airbnb Experiences : Travelers' Purchase Behavior and Word-of-Mouth. Journal of Travel Research. 62 (7). 1569-1587.
Status: Published
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Goolaup, S. (2023). Transformative Experience as an agent triggering behavioral change : Transformative experience as triggering behavioural change. Handbook on Tourism and Behaviour Change. Edward Elgar Publishing. 36-49.