Sandhiya Goolaup

Sandhiya Goolaup is a Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at the University of Borås. Her research interests revolve around areas such as consumer and tourist experiences, transformative experiences, value creation, consumer behaviour, destination development, and event studies. Sandhiya’s work has been featured in journals such as the Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, and the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.

Researcher's publications in DiVA (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet)

External Publications

• Jernsand, E and Goolaup, S. (forthcoming). Learning through extraordinary tourism experiences. The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Experience Management and Marketing (1^st first Edition) Routledge Handbook: UK
• Nunkoo, R., Thelwall, M., Ladsawut, J., & Goolaup, S. (2020). Three decades of tourism scholarship: Gender, collaboration and research methods. Tourism Management, 78, 104056.
• Goolaup, S., Solér, C., & Nunkoo, R. (2019). The Tourists’ Gastronomic Experience: An Embodied and Spatial Approach. The Routledge Handbook of Gastronomic Tourism (1st Edition) Routledge Handbook: UK
• Goolaup, S., Solér, C., & Nunkoo, R. (2018). Developing a Theory of Surprise from Travelers’ Extraordinary Food Experiences. Journal of Travel Research, 57(2), p.218-231. DOI: 0047287517691154.
• Goolaup, S., & Solér, C. (2018). Existential Phenomenology: understanding tourists’ experiences. Handbook of Research Methods for Tourism and Hospitality Management (p.62-71), Edward Elgar Publishing: UK
• Goolaup, S., & Mossberg, L. (2017). Exploring the concept of extraordinary related to food tourists’ nature-based experience. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 17(1), 27-43.
• Goolaup, S., & Mossberg, L. (2017). Exploring consumers’ value co-creation in a festival context using a socio-cultural lens. The Value of Events (p. 39-57), Routledge; London.