Prince Harry and wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will visit Fraser Island on their tour of Australia next month, Kensington Palace has confirmed.

Several USC experts are available to comment on what this means for the region from a tourism perspective:

Shahab Pourfakhimi (at USC’s Fraser Coast campus)

Teaching and research areas include: Tourism and hospitality consumer behaviour and neuroscience; etourism; tourism marketing; and tourism destination branding.

Contact: 07 5456 5690 or spourfak@usc.edu.au

Dr Vikki Schaffer

Research and teaching areas include: International tourism management; regional tourism; sustainable tourism and event management; technology and innovation in tourism; leisure and event management; visualisation and immersive experiences for enhancing the visitor experience.

Contact: 07 5459 4705 or vschaffe@usc.edu.au

Associate Professor Brent Moyle

Research areas include: Regional tourism development; sustainable tourism; visitor experience design and evaluation, virtual tourism, sport tourism, cruise tourism; and tourism innovation and entrepreneurship.

Contact: 07 5456 5135, bmoyle@usc.edu.au