Regina Aurelia Scheyvens

Regina Aurelia Scheyvens is a New Zealand development academic,and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Massey University.

After a 1995 PhD titled 'A quiet revolution : strategies for the empowerment and development of rural women in the Solomon Islands' at the Massey University, Scheyvens joined the staff, rising to full professor.

• Scheyvens, Regina. "Ecotourism and the empowerment of local communities." Tourism management 20, no. 2 (1999): 245-249.
• Scheyvens, Regina. Tourism for development: Empowering communities. Pearson Education, 2002.
• Scheyvens, Regina, ed. Development fieldwork: A practical guide. Sage, 2014.
• Scheyvens, Regina. "Backpacker tourism and third world development." Annals of tourism research 29, no. 1 (2002): 144-164.
• Scheyvens, Regina. "Exploring the tourism-poverty nexus." Current issues in tourism 10, no. 2-3 (2007): 231-254.