Member Activities

Dick Butler

Dick was retired from Strathclyde University on March 31, 2009 under the university’s mandatory retirement policy, and is now Emeritus Professor in the Strathclyde Business School. He is continuing to do occasional teaching in Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as well as acting as external examiner and programme reviewer for various universities. Apart from working with Doug Pearce on editing the Academy volume resulting from the 2009 meeting, he is also co-editing books on Political Change and Tourism, Sustainable Tourism and Islands, and Giants of Tourism-Key Individuals in the Development of Tourism, all to be published in 2010. In January 2010 he will be spending three weeks with David Weaver and colleagues at Griffith University in Australia.

Kaye Chon

Kaye delivered a keynote presentation at Advanced Tourism Marketing Conference in Bournemouth, U.K., on the topic of "Service Quality in Hospitality and Tourism: Experiences from Asia."

Kaye also delivered the keynote presentation, “Industry Partnership in Hospitality and Tourism Education”, at the 2009 International Conference on the Development Trends of Tourism and Hospitality Industry and Education held in Taipei, Taiwan, from 25 to 28 September. During his visit to Taiwan, he also presented a lecture on “Development of Leadership for Asia's Hospitality and Tourism” for students at National Taiwan Normal University and Chinese Culture University.

Bill Eadington

Bill and Meighan have recently completed the publication of Integrated resort casinos: Implications for Economic growth and social impacts.

Legalization of casino gaming has now occurred almost everywhere in the world. A few astute observers have noted that not all gambling should be treated alike; the benefit/cost ratios depend a lot on what kind of gambling is authorized in a jurisdiction. In particular, Integrated Resort Casinos might be considerably more beneficial than a wide variety of forms of permitted casino gambling.

This book, which uses Slovenia as a case study, points out that this challenging question—whether or not to permit a “state of the art” Integrated Resort Casino—remains a daunting challenge for jurisdictions as diverse and separated as Singapore, Massachusetts, China, Texas, Viet Nam, India, and Britain, as well as Slovenia. It is now available through the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, University of Nevada, Reno. Publication date: 2009. Price: $39.95 + S&H

Daniel Fesenmaier

Daniel addressed a keynote speech at OECD 7th Annual Rural Development Conference, Quebec City, Canada. Rural tourism: Implementing "cutting edge" schemes. October 14, 2009. The title of his presentation is "Searching for the Future: Challenges for Tourism Development".

Doug Frechtling

Doug addressed the Eleventh Annual American Indian/Native American Tourism Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 23 on “Better Information for Better Management: Building a Tribal Community Tourism Information System”.

Cathy Hsu

Cathy was recently honoured by International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (I-CHRIE) with the John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award. The John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award recognises an I-CHRIE member for lifetime contributions to outstanding scholarship and research in hospitality and tourism. The award is given to an I-CHRIE member who has made and continues to make significant contributions to the field of hospitality and tourism through scholarly research published in hospitality and non-hospitality journals over an extended period.

The award was presented to Cathy from I-CHRIE's President Professor Margaret E. “Mokie” Steiskal of Columbus State Community College at the 2009 I-CHRIE Conference held in San Francisco, USA, from 29 July to 1 August. It recognises Cathy’s outstanding leadership in her field of study, and the invaluable contributions she makes to the global hospitality and tourism education development in a teaching and research career spanning 20 years.

Patrick Lavery

Patrick worked as the key participant/assessor in the 2009 National Geographic Traveler Destination Scorecard Places Rated survey in this summer. This survey is undertaken on a regular basis by the National Geographic Society in Washington DC. Colleagues can check their website for the overall sustainable tourism survey results.

Dennison Nash

Nash recently addressed his viewpoint on “Balance of Power and the Quality of Academic Productivity in the Academy”.

Chris Ryan

In the last few months Chris has been a keynote speaker (along with Tom Baum) at a conference hosted by Jinwen University of Science and Technology, and additionally at Taiwan National Sports University. In addition he, with Kaye Chon and Gu Huimin, won the best paper award at the 2009 APTA Conference held in Seoul, while he had also won the best paper award for the 2008 Euro-Chris Conference held in Dubai. A significant publication has been the book Tourism in China co-edited with Gu Huimin (both of who write several chapters in the work) and which was published by Routledge in New York. Initial responses have been very positive as to the content, although as Thomas Bauer pointed out – it seemed odd that the replication of maps were blurred while they were very sharp on the internet based version of the book. With reference to recent journal articles Chris has had work on Wulingyuan published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism with colleagues from Sun Yat-Sen University, on Grand View Gardens Journal of Travel Research with colleagues from Beijing International Studies University and on Al Maha in Dubai with a colleague from the Emirates Academy.

In September 2009 Chris joined colleagues at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Visiting Professor where he completed papers with his former doctoral student, Steve Pan, and with Kaye Chon which are now currently under review. Prior to that he spent some time as Visiting Professor at Asia University where among other things, he completed some research on the 921 Earthquake Museum.

In the New Zealand summer Chris is looking forward to a quiet time on the beach with his family, and in the meantime sends best wishes for a Happy New Year to all his colleagues and friends in the Academy.

Arch Woodside

Arch has edited Volume 3 of the ADVANCES IN CULTURE, TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY RESEARCH series: Perspectives on Cross-Cultural, Ethnographic, Brand Image, Storytelling, Unconscious Needs, and Hospitality Guest Research, which will soon be released by Emerald Publishing in December 2009.

Volume 3 in the ACTHR series includes six papers. It provides useful answers to the following questions. In what ways should data collection about tourists’ activities and hospitality experiences vary within a variety of non-Western contexts (e.g., in Dubai (UAE), Peshawar (Pakistan), and Macau (China)? How do interactions between a professional sports team and its major sponsor affect brand image and brand equity for the sponsoring brand? What does ethnographic research report on long-term overseas country visits by international students? In what ways does visual narrative art inform consumer behavior theory of tourism behavior? How do consumption values affect destination image formation? What insights follow from historical research on the use of hotel guest survey methods? How does unconscious needs influence traveler’s interpretations and preferences of alternative tours and hotels?