Researcher's Biography

Name:                           Noel Murray

Position:                        Postgraduate Research Student

Qualifications:              Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS), Waterford Institute of Technology

                                      Higher Diploma in Education (HDE), Trinity College Dublin

                                      Masters of Business Studies (MBS), Waterford Institute of Technology

Email:                           nmurray@wit.ie

Biography                  

Noel graduated from Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) in 2001 with a Bachelor of Business Studies (Hons). Following this, he completed a Higher Diploma in Education in Trinity College Dublin and pursued a career teaching Business and Economics at second level.  He then returned to WIT and completed a taught Masters in Business Studies in 2005 for which he received a 1.1 result.  Anchored by extensive industry experience at both national and international level across disciplines such as food business, retail management, recruitment, & hospitality, Noel returned to WIT at the end of 2009 where he is currently pursuing research to doctoral level as a member of the RIKON group

Research Interests     

Noel’s interests lie mainly in the field of tourism, and include areas such as the creation of experiences and tourism destinations and more specifically how experiences and can be created and managed within tourism destinations. Whilst pursuing his research, Noel also works as a researcher within the  School of Business.

Research Project       

Noel is at the early stages of his research and his working title at present is “A Framework for Tourism Experience Creation: The Mediating Role of the SME”.

Publications

Murray, N., Foley, A. and Lynch, P. (2010) " Fáilte go Sláinte:  Understanding the Tourist Experience Concept" In: 6 th  Annual Tourism and Hospitality Research in Ireland Conference: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities, 15th – 16th June 2010, Shannon College of Hotel Management, Shannon Airport, Ireland.

Murray, N., Foley, A. and Lynch, P. (2010), (forthcoming) “Addressing Gaps in Understanding the Tourism Experience: Towards an Intergrated Perspective”, Accepted for Inclusion in: 13 th  Annual Irish Academy of Management Conference: Renewing the Management Research Mandate, 1st – 3rd September 2010, Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), Cork, Ireland.