From 2009 to 2012, whilst based in the School of Business at the University of Otago, I served as Principal Investigator on a competitively-funded project based in New Zealand that sought to explore the complex linkages between tourism and aviation.  Co-investigators for the project included Dr Aaron Schiff of the respected Auckland-based consultancy firm, Covec, as well as Dr Niven Winchester (now at MIT, but formerly in the Department of Economics at the University of Otago).  A 2009 item in the New Zealand Herald profiled the project.

The outputs from this project are still being developed, but those that have been released publicly can be found below. Relevant academic articles and publications can be found under Publications.

Popular press articles

• Duval, D.T. and Schiff, A. (2011) ''The State of New Zealand's Air Services'', Tourism Business (New Zealand), December 2010/January 2011.
• Duval, D.T. and Schiff, A. (2011) "The Importance of VFR Travel for Tourism Businesses", Tourism Business (New Zealand), February/March 2011.
• Schiff, A. and Duval, D.T. (2011) "How many bums on how many seats?" Tourism Business (New Zealand), June/July 2011.

Seminars and conferences

• Duval, D.T. 'Cost sharing in thin-route air service provision', seminar given at the University of Otago, May 2010.
• Duval, D.T. 'Accessibility and connectivity as critical parameters for New Zealand tourism', invited presentation to the 2010 New Zealand Airports Association annual conference. 
• Koo, T., Tan, D., and Duval, D.T. 'Air Transport Capacity and Tourism Demand Interactions - An Error Correction Model Approach', paper presented at the 2011 Air Transport Research Society Conference, Sydney, June 2011.
• Duval, D.T. 'Canada / UAE Aeropolitical Relations - Implications for New Zealand', paper presented at the 3rd Annual Aviation Education and Research Division Symposium, Aviation Industry Association and Massey University, Wellington, July 2011.

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PREVIOUS RESEARCH IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOHISTORY OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN

As part of my Master of Arts in Anthropology (University of Manitoba), Professor Louis Allaire (now retired) and I undertook a survey in 1993 and 1994 of key locations on the island of St Vincent in the Eastern Caribbean. The 1994 field season included some test pits at various sites along the Windward (East) coast. In the interest of disseminating the original results of this research, which would have otherwise been almost impossible to locate, I have made the following freely available:

Duval, David Timothy (1996) Saladoid Archaeology on St. Vincent, West Indies: Results of the 1993/1994 University of Manitoba Survey, MA Thesis (Anthropology), Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba (Available upon request)

Duval, David Timothy (1994) The 1993 University of Manitoba St. Vincent Site Survey: Preliminary Report Number 1 (Artifact Cataloguing), report presented to the St. Vincent National Trust, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, June 1994.

Allaire, Louis and Duval, David Timothy (1995) 'St. Vincent Revisited', in Alegria, R.E. and Rodriguez, M. (eds) Proceedings of the XV International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Centro de Estudios Avasnzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, con la colaboracion de la Fundacion Puertirquena de las Humanidades y la Univsersidad del Turabo.

Duval, David Timothy (1994) 'Windward Island Migrations: The View from St. Vincent', paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary (CHACMOOL).

In addition to numerous academic references over the years, some of this research has been used more recently by various consultants and groups investigating the impact of the new Argyle International Airport on St. Vincent.