Visit at University of Queensland’s Business School’s Sustainable Tourism research Group

Dining Flow project’s Senior Researcher Niko Myller visited University of Queensland’s Business School’s Sustainable Tourism research Group

On June 2025, Senior Researcher Niko Myller visited renewed Professor Sara Dolnicar and her research team at the University of Queensland (UQ), Business School. Their research focus is sustainable tourism and low harm hedonism in tourism. In a similar way to University of Turku’s (UTU) Dining Flow project, they combine multiple disciplines namely Psychology, Business, and Computer Science to bring new innovations to the sustainable tourism.

We exchanged knowledge, experiences and ideas between the research groups and there seems to be many ideas to collaborate with that we can start exploring after the visit. The plan is to start long term collaboration to utilize the Business Psychology expertise of UQ team in sustainable tourism and combine it with the facilities and expertise the team in UTU has created when working in the living laboratory of the Flavoria restaurant in order to find new ways how to make restaurants and tourism as a whole more sustainable.