Member Activities

Dimitrios Buhalis

Dimitrios will be presenting Bournemouth University as Vice President on the Affiliate Members of the UNWTO.

He will be also a keynote speaker at Melbourne Australia National Tourism and Events Excellence Conference in July 16-17, 2012 (http://www.teeconference.com/) and will visit the Universities of Victoria and Queensland in Australia in July, 2012.

He will organize the International Conference on Tourism, Climate Change & Sustainability at Bournemouth University in the UK in September 13-14, 2012 (http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/icthr/climatechange2012/index.html).

Erik Cohen

Erik has published a new theoretical paper:

1. Cohen, E., & Cohen, S. A. (2012). “Authentication: hot and cool”. Annals of Tourism Research, 39(3), 1295-1314.

Geoffrey Crouch

Geoffrey has received the Charles R. Goeldner Article of Excellence Award for the Best Paper published in the Journal of Travel Research in 2011. The award was presented at the 2012 TTRA Conference held in Virginia Beach in June. His paper, titled “Destination Competitiveness: An Analysis of Determinant Attributes” was published in Volume 50, Number 1, pp. 27-45.

Larry Dwyer

Larry is pleased to announce the imminent publication of Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, Edward Elgar Publishing, co-edited with fellow Academy member Alison Gill, and Neelu Seetaram. Larry has also contributed chapters on Cost Benefit Analysis and CGE modelling to this volume.

Some recent publications include:

1. Dwyer, L. (2012). “Tourism Development and Trends: Demand and Supply Side Perspectives” in Mihalic, T., & Gartner, W. C. (eds). Tourism: Developments, Issues and Challenges, Nova Science Publishers Inc, forthcoming
2. Dwyer, L., & Jago, L. (2012). “Economic Contribution of Special Events” in Page, S. & Connell, J. (eds). A Handbook of Events, Routledge, UK
3. Duc Pham T. & Dwyer, L. (2012). “Tourism Satellite Account and Its Applications in CGE Modelling” forthcoming in Tisdell, C. (eds). Handbook of Tourism Economics: Analysis, New Applications and Case Studies, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK forthcoming
4. Koo, T., Wu, R., & Dwyer, L. (2012). “Dispersal of visitors within destinations: descriptive measures and underlying drivers”. Tourism Management, 33(5), 1007-1292 (October 2012)
5. Kulendran, N., & Dwyer, L. (2012). “Modelling Seasonal Variation in Tourism Flows with Climate Variables”. Tourism Analysis, 17( 2/3).
6. Dwyer, L., & Thomas, F. (2012). “Tourism Yield Measures for Cambodia”. Current Issues in Tourism, 15(4), 303-328

In May, Larry was invited to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland to address a Research Workshop on Chinese Inbound Tourism reflecting upon the research presentations.

Douglas Pearce

Douglas's book, Frameworks for Tourism Development, has just been published by CABI (http://bookshop.cabi.org/?page=2633&pid=2419&site=191). The book provides a wide-ranging and systematic account and critique of theoretical, conceptual, analytical and integrative frameworks used in tourism research. He has just begun a period of eight months' study leave travelling to Europe to present papers on destination management in Switzerland, Spain and Turkey.

Richard Perdue

Richard has been recently named the Robert B. Pamplin Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. Established in 2011, the Robert B. Pamplin Professorship in Hospitality and Tourism Management is one of several named professorships established with a portion of the $10 million endowment presented to the Pamplin College by Robert B. Pamplin, Sr. and Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. This professorship supports excellence in education in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management. He joined the Pamplin College of Business as professor and department head in 2005. Please find more information by clicking here.

J. R. Brent Ritchie

The Canada Chapter launched J.R. Brent Ritchie TTRA Lifetime Contribution Award to recognize an individual whose outstanding scientific contributions to travel and tourism research have substantially enhanced the status of the Canada Chapter and its members. Brent is sponsoring this prestigious award. Please find more information from the spring 2012 aTTRAction newsletter available on the Chapter website at http://www.ttracanada.ca/en/about_us/attraction_newsletter

Chris Ryan

Chris was a panel member at the Conferences organized by Metin Kozak of Mugla University in Turkey, namely the 6th International Post Graduate Conference. Fellow Academy members included Jafar Jafari, Alan Williams, and Rick Perdue. He also gave a paper at the conference co-authored with one of his doctoral students, Thu Trinh, "The development of a heritage visitor scale of motivation: research in progress at New Zealand sites of heritage and cultural interest". Chris also later attended, as a keynote speaker, the "Tourism Tribune" conference hosted by Beijing Union University, and was offered a Visiting Professors post at that University. In addition he also gave another paper on current tourism research and bibliometrics. In June he returns to the Emirates Academy in his capacity of Visiting Professor.

His recent publications include:

1. The Experience of Events in S. J. Page, & J. Connell. (ed) The Routledge Handbooks of Events. London: Routledge.
2. Pan, S., & Ryan, C. (2012). “Film-Induced Heritage Site Conservation: The Case of ‘Echoes of the Rainbow’”. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research
3. Gu, H., & Ryan, C. (2012). “Tourism destination evolution: a comparative study of Shi Cha Hai Beijing Hutong businesses’ and residents’ attitudes”. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 20(1), 23-40.
4. Zeng, B., & Ryan, C. (2012). “Assisting the poor in China through tourism development: A review of research”. Tourism Management. 33(2), 239-248.

Currently he has been approached to establish monitoring process for the cycle ways being created in New Zealand while contributing to work with Prof. Gu and colleagues from Renmin University on issues pertaining to corporate social responsibility in China.

Finally, while in Turkey he went tandem hang gliding – enjoyed it so much, that he then repeated the experience the final day of his stay now. This required launching himself from a mountain 1,976 meters high. Photos and video are available upon demand.

Pauline Sheldon

Pauline organized a regional TEFI (Tourism Education Future Institute) conference in Jaipur, India on March 3-4, 2012. Pauline, together with Daniel Fesenmaier, is working on the establishment of a TEFI India Chapter with a number of the most visionary, positive, and resourceful colleagues in India.

Tej Vir Singh

Tej Vir edited the book called Critical Debates in Tourism. This book is a landmark volume which examines perplexing tourism debates such as the relevance of mass tourism, climate change, authenticity, tourism and poverty and slow tourism. Multidisciplinary in content, it covers applied aspects of sociology, anthropology, humanities and biosciences. The book is unique in its presentation and style and will be an essential resource for scholars, academics and practitioners. Please find more information about the book by clicking here.

Stephen Smith

Stephen is co-chair of the Scientific Committee, organizing “A Symposium on Measuring the Performance and Economic Contribution of Tourism” at the Université du Québec à Montréal’, Canada. The Symposium is in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Transat Chair in Tourism. It will be held at the Montreal Convention Centre, September 24-25, 2012.

Haiyan Song

Haiyan has recently participated in the Guangdong provincial tourism satellite account development as project leader. The Guangdong tourist satellite account (GDTSA2010) was compiled based on the UNWTO “2008 Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework (TSA: RMF 2008)”. The project was carried out by a dedicated

team of academics from Sun Yat-sen University, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xian Jiaotong University and North Western University. Due to the data limitations from the secondary sources, the project team had to conduct a number of large scale surveys in order to obtain the data needed for the compilation of GDTSA2010, which include the visitor expenditure survey, household consumption survey, and the production survey of tourism industries. According to an assessment panel consists of experts from China National Statistics Bureau, China National Tourism Administration and Guangdong Provincial Tourism and Statistics Bureaus, GDTSA2010 was considered to be “the first regional TSA that comprehensively and systematically evaluated the contributions of tourism to the provincial GDP, employment, and government revenue based on TSA: RMF 2008”.       

Allan Williams

Allan attended the Tourism Research Centre meeting in Bern in March, where he presented a paper on his work on ‘Risk attitudes, risk competences, and tourist behaviour’. In April, he was a keynote speaker on ‘Geography, Tourism and Interdisciplinarity’ in a plenary session at the 2nd Interdisciplinary Tourism Research Conference in Fethiye, Turkey; his co-panellists were John Urry, Jafar Jafari and Arch Woodside. In the first half of 2012 he published two papers with Vladimir Baláž: in Technological Forecasting and Social Change onapplying evolutionary economics to the diffusion of voice technologies, and in Population, Space and Place on the theorisation of risk in migration studies.

Arch G. Woodside

Arch is releasing a book with Kenneth F. Hyde and Chris Ryan called “Why Case Study Research? Introduction to the Field Guide to Case Study Research in Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure” on July 10, 2012 by Emerald Publishing (Series: Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research v. 6). Please find the synopsis by clicking here.