Member Activities

Dimitrios Buhalis

Dimitrios is organizing “Context Based Services In Tourism Workshop” at Bournemouth University from July 7th (Thursday) to July 9th (Saturday).

He has recently published a new book with Ambrose, I. and Darcy, S. on “Accessible Tourism Issues: Inclusion, Disability, Ageing Population And Tourism” (ISBN 1845411609 Channel View Publications). It is the first book to address accessible tourism and covers inclusion, disability, ageing population, inclusive design and tourism. It explores and documents the current theoretical approaches, foundations and issues in the study of accessible tourism by adopting a multidisciplinary approach with influences from geography, disability studies, economics, public policy, psychology, social psychology, organizational management, postmodern cultural studies, marketing architecture and international development.

Kaye Chon

Kaye received the Ulysees Prize from UNWTO for his contribution to advancement of education and knowledge in tourism.

He chaired the 9th Asia Pacific CHRIE (APacCHRIE) Conference in Hong Kong. Attended by some 520 delegates from 37 countries and territories, the conference was held in the newly opened Hotel ICON, a teaching and research hotel purpose built for Hong Kong PolyU’s School of Hotel & Tourism Management where he is the Dean of the School.

Erik Cohen

Erik has contributed work in several sub-fields of tourism studies, and published the following papers in 2010:

“Tourism, Leisure and Authenticity”, Tourism Recreation Research, 35(1), 2010, pp. 67-73.
“Confirmation versus Contestation of Tourism Theories in Tourist Jokes”, Tourism Analysis, 15(1), 2010, pp.3-16.
“Coinciding Crises and Tourism in Contemporary Thailand”, Current Issues in Tourism, 13(5), 2010, pp.455-175, (with M. Neal).
“Panda and elephant – contesting animal icons in Thai tourism”, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 8(3), 2010, pp.154-171.
“Medial Travel – A Critical Assessment”, Tourism Recreation Research, 35(3), 2010, pp.225-237.
“Dinosaurs in Thai Culture and Tourism”, Tourism, Cultural and Communication, 10(2), 2010, pp.117-135.
“Tourism Crises: A Comparative Perspective”, International Journal of Tourism Policy, 3(4), 2010, pp.281-296.

He is presently engaged in writing, with a colleague, a theoretical paper on “authentication” and welcomes any suggestions and sources on the topic.

Douglas Frechtling

Douglas has completed the requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Survey Design and Data Analysis from the Department of Statistics at The George Washington University. The Certificate requires successful completion of four postgraduate courses in survey management, questionnaire design, sampling techniques and statistical computing packages.

Philip Pearce

Philip has finally attended an Academy conference (Taiwan 2011) without a travel mishap, misplaced airport arrivals, confused directions or treks overland. As he is about to launch into a further round of conference attendances including Surrey, U.K. then a PATA workshop in Thailand on tourist behavior and quite possibly a trip to Verona, Italy and Kamloops, Canada later in the year, he suspects that there is a good chance that his “adventures” (read planning mistakes) will re-occur.

His autobiographical pieces about tourism study from a psychology/marketing perspective have now been published as Pearce, P. L. (2011) “The Study of Tourism. Foundations from Psychology”, (Volume 15), Bingley: Emerald.

Chris Ryan

Chris has recovered well from an operation and recently was invited to speak at Griffith University on issues surrounding bibliometrics and to give a doctoral student workshop.

Recent articles of his have appeared in Current Issues in Tourism, Journal of Vacation Marketing,Journal of China Tourism Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research and Journal of Sustainable Tourism.  He has other articles ready for future publication and thus continues with research, particularly with reference to China and he will again be in China and Taiwan for 2 months later in the year.

Muzzo Uysal

Muzzo recently co-authored the following two books:

“Tourist Customer Service Satisfaction: An Encounter Approach”, 2010, Routledge, London, U.K., (with N.F. Frank and V. Magnini).
“Research Methods for Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism”, 2011, CABI Publishing, London, U.K., (with E. Turk, W. Hammitt and J. Vaske).

Geoff Wall

Geoff was given the 2011 Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography of the Canadian Association of Geographers at their Annual Meeting in Calgary. He continues to work in Xinjiang, China, supported by a Visiting Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also has recently signed agreements as a Visiting Professor with Sun-yat Sen University (Guangzhou), Renmin University (Beijing) and Kaohsiung Hospitality and Tourism University (Taiwan).

Allan Williams

Allan (University of Surrey) is developing a program of research on risk, uncertainty and mobility in collaboration with Vladimir Balaz, of the Slovak Academy of Science. He has been awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Foundation for a project that will draw on the theories of behavioral economics to investigate how risk and uncertainty influence decisions in relation to different types of tourism and migration activities, as well as the cross-fertilization between these. In June he visited the Universidade de Lisboa where he gave an invited lecture on 'Tourism and innovation: persistent, insistent and illusory' to the doctoral program in tourism studies. He also gave an open lecture in the Geography Department on 'Mobility, risk and uncertainty: theoretical perspectives'.