Prof. Dr Adele Ladkin
University Teacher
External Teaching Staff
External Teaching Staff
Academic title: PhD
Habilitation field: Professor (Tourism Employment)
adele.ladkin@guest.um.si
Office hours: by prior arrangement
SCIENTIFIC FIELD
6.12.02 Social Geography
5.04.03 Management
5.04.03 Management
KEYWORDS
Tourism employment, Employee wellbeing, Work life balance, Labour mobility, Work futures and technology
RESEARCH FIELD
Adele Ladkin has expertise is tourism and hospitality workforce and employment, specifically labour mobility, fair work, employee wellbeing and digital transformations of work. Her research is disseminated in more than one hundred scientific articles book chapters and policy reports. She has extensive experience in developing tourism and hospitality international postgraduate studies, contributing to global capacity building in education. She works with UNWTO as an expert advisor for human resources in tourism and is motivated to undertake research to inform policy to drive positive change for employees and organisations, supporting livelihoods in tourism. She is a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and Associate Editor for Annals of Tourism Research.
SUBJECTS/TEACHING ANNOUNCEMENT
DR-17 Turistične prihodnosti
TEACHING APPROACH
Teaching methods are those that facilitate an active classroom and include discussion groups, quizzes and role play. Student input is a valuable learning style in which the sharing of experiences and ideas are encouraged.
recently published
Rainoldi, M., Ladkin, A., Buhalis, D., and Neuhofer, B. (2025). Digital praxiography: A qualitative research toolkit for capturing digital service-related practices. Journal of Service Theory and Practice. August 2025, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTP-02-2024-0055
Savric, J., Ladkin, A., Cooper, C., and Turnsek, M. (2025). Climate Change and Tourism Work. A perspective Paper. Tourism Review. May 2025. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-10-2024-0956
Rainoldi, M., Ladkin, A., and Buhalis, D. (2025). Digital nomads work-leisure management practices. Annals of Tourism Research. Volume 111, March 2025, 103904 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2025.103904
Nguyen, Q., Yankholmes, A., Ladkin, A., and Osman, H. (2024). National Stereotypes in the cross-cultural service encounter: Empirical evidence from Vietnam. Tourism Review. DOI: 10.1108/TR-09-2023-0612.
Savric, J., Ladkin, A., Cooper, C., and Turnsek, M. (2025). Climate Change and Tourism Work. A perspective Paper. Tourism Review. May 2025. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-10-2024-0956
Rainoldi, M., Ladkin, A., and Buhalis, D. (2025). Digital nomads work-leisure management practices. Annals of Tourism Research. Volume 111, March 2025, 103904 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2025.103904
Nguyen, Q., Yankholmes, A., Ladkin, A., and Osman, H. (2024). National Stereotypes in the cross-cultural service encounter: Empirical evidence from Vietnam. Tourism Review. DOI: 10.1108/TR-09-2023-0612.