Reni Polus

Reni Polus is a Lecturer in the Business School at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Her career began in tourism, working as a tour guide before transitioning to academia. Reni spent 8 years teaching in Malaysia's higher education sector before pursuing her PhD at the University of Otago, New Zealand. After completing her doctoral studies, she joined the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago as a Teaching Fellow. Her research focuses on spirituality within tourism and leisure experiences, with particular interests in volunteering, pilgrimage, dark tourism and heritage tourism.