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Member Activities David Airey In July David made to the top of Japan’s Mt Fuji and joined the Japanese photographer tourists.
He has also published a 329 page book with King Chong from Hong Kong on “Tourism in China: development and policy since 1949” by Routledge. As the title suggests this work takes a long term view of the ways in which the Chinese Government has approached tourism. It uses a new theoretical framework to guide the study which is based on interviews with leading authorities and on government documents.
Tom Baum Tom is pleased to give colleagues in the Academy advance notice of Tourism State of the Art III which will take place in Glasgow in June/July 2014. This follows our successful iterations of the TSA ‘brand’ in 1994 and 2004 and we hope to welcome tourism researchers to this wonderful city at a time when things will be buzzing ahead of the Commonwealth Games. Watch this and many other spaces.
Dimitrios Buhalis Buhalis is organizing the following conferences:
Richard Butler Richard has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship to revisit the Shetland Islands and duplicate a survey he conducted in 1962 to identify the responses of inhabitants of the remotest of the UK islands (Fair Isle) to changes over half a century. The study will run over nineteen months and allow him to also update his research on oil and tourism which began three decades ago. He is currently completing a book on ‘Tourism and War - A Complex Relationship’, edited with Wantanee Suntikul (IFT Macau) to be published by Routledge at the end of this year. In the past year he has had papers published in Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Recreation Review and Tourism Management and chapters published in several books.
David L. Edgell David was nominated by the Dean of Human Ecology at East Carolina University for the Oliver Max Gardner Award. This Award is the highest Award in the 16-university system in North Carolina. The Award is given to a professor from one of the sixteen universities deemed to have had the greatest impact on the welfare of the human race (over their career). In past years the Award has most often gone to someone from the medical field. The Award winner will be announced in 2012.
Donald Getz Donald has recently been appointed to another three-year term as Professor, School of Tourism, The University of Queensland (half time). He also holds a part-time position at the Norwegian School of Hotel Management, University of Stavanger.
Carson Jenkins Carson spent August working in Hanoi, Vietnam on the European Union funded project Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tourism Development. The project is scheduled to run for five years with a possible extension. His input was in the inception phase of the project and related in particular to policy formulation and adaptations to the legislative framework. In October he will be Visiting Professor at the University of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Brian King Brian recently completed his term as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Industry and Community) at Victoria University and is now on a five month sabbatical transitioning to a fractional university-wide and faculty role. During his sabbatical he has spent time as a Visiting Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and at Rosen College, University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA. At PolyU he taught the subject Cultural Tourism to MSc students and participated in the School retreat to Zhuhai, China. He has also given plenary presentations at the Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) in Philadelphia and at the forthcoming THE-ICE International Panel of Experts at Taylor’s University in Kuala Lumpur.
Alan A. Lew Alan, Vice-Chair of the Tourism Commission of the International Geographical Union, is organizing the following conferences that are sponsored in whole or in part by the Commission in 2012-2013:
Haiyan Song Haiyan was invited by the Guangdong Tourism Administration and Sun Yat-sen University to be an advisor to the development of the Guangdong Tourism Satellite Account (TSA). The Guangdong TSA is the first regional TSA in China that will be compiled using the UNWTO 2008 Tourism Satellite Account - Recommended Methodological Framework (TSA: RMF 2008). He was also invited by the Hong Kong Disneyland to train its revenue management team in the area of tourism demand modeling and forecasting on 6-7 October 2011. This training programme was aimed at equipping the participants with modern econometric and time series forecasting techniques in their revenue management practice.
Allan Williams Allan has been awarded 120,000 Euros by the EU FP7 programme to lead Surrey's contribution to the SECOA project. This analyses how the relationships between human mobility (including tourism) and urbanisation impact on environmental conflicts in coastal regions. He presented a paper with Academy Fellow Gareth Shaw, and with Michelle Lowe (Southampton University) on the Hotel du Vin chain, as an innovation network, at a workshop hosted by the Journal of Economic Geography and the ESRC Advanced Institute of Management.
Arch G. Woodside Arch has recently published a number of articles as below:
He has also published a book on ‘Tourism-marketing Performance Metrics and Usefulness Auditing of Destination Websites’ in the Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research Volume 4 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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