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Australians are keen to travel close to home when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, with new national data revealing positive signs for the domestic tourism industry.

Professor Matthew Hornsey discusses why people so badly and blatantly misunderstand science, and, to compound their error, start sharing their false arguments?

“COVID-19 won’t be the last’”, warns a leading business experts who is predicting growth in several key industries as global businesses move to mitigate risk for future pandemics.

The tourism industry has been dealt heavy blows before, but the coronavirus pandemic shows no clear signs of when tourism can operate again, which has forced the tourism industry consider what's next?

Major banks are offering mortgage pauses for people that are experiencing hardship from the coronavirus pandemic, but it comes at a cost according to Dr John Sturgeon.

After the failures of the dotcom crash and the global financial crisis, leadership theories have evolved to human approaches which focus on the common good of the organisation.

The 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo is the latest event to be postponed in the wake of COVID-19. But how will the delay until 2021 affect Japan’s tourism industry?

Professor Shaun Bond, from the UQ Business School, shares his thoughts on how to navigate some of the big financial decisions in this time of economic uncertainty.

Services such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo have become essential to cafes and restaurants that can now only sell takeaway food. But it’s a situation that has provoked serious questions. Not only about whether delivery services are safe, but whether it’s ethical to use them.

Terrance Fitzsimmons, a researcher in business leadership at The University of Queensland Business School, says that the children of small-business owners are often exposed from an early age to adult business talk that can serve as a profoundly immersive apprenticeship

The University of Queensland Business School has placed in the top 100 worldwide across all relevant subject areas in the 2020 QS World University Rankings by Subject, released today.

The issue of wage theft in hospitality is receiving renewed attention after the collapse of George Calombaris’s restaurant empire, but experts say it masks a litany of other “toxic” traits plaguing the industry.

Master of Business Administration (MBA) alumna and PhD student Claire Cunningham shares the firsthand insights she gained during her trip as part of The University of Queensland (UQ) MBA Global Immersion Tour program, and why she’d recommend the program to others.

The latest celebrity-chef-linked wage-theft scandal, with the high-end restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Melbourne allegedly underpaying its staff by A$4 million, is the tip of the iceberg for wage exploitation in the hospitality industry.

Online shopping, extended trading hours and supermarkets – despite all the odds, our family-run corner stores are showing good service will always be in demand.

Dr Ida Asadi Someh is no stranger to gender imbalance, experiencing it first-hand in her career and breaking down barriers in the process. This courageous and celebrated researcher urges other women to challenge the status quo to achieve their own version of success.

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A lengthening list of celebrities are helping to shine a spotlight on Australia’s bushfires, but there’s also a downside. If that interest is superficial and fleeting, it may actually hinder recovery efforts in disaster-ravaged regions.

Conservationists don’t always agree about the best ways to reinforce the protection of nature. Debates about it can become confrontational. But at the heart of the issue is how to include more people in conservation efforts.

Valley-goers looking for a quick meat-free bite will have another option on Brunswick Street, with the northern expansion of a well-known franchise, Lord of the Fries.