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Member Activities Dimitrios Buhalis Buhalis will host the new events: (a) Monday 4th - Thursday 7th November (b)Wednesday 6th November 2013 (c) Friday 8th November 2013 - 11.00 to 16.00 (d) 21-24 January 2014 He has co-authored the recent book: Costa, C., Panyik, E., Buhalis, D., 2013. Trends in European Tourism Planning and Organisation, Channel View Publications, Bristol http://ow.ly/pLC6U
Kaye Chon Kaye delivered a keynote at Cross Cultural Tourism Forum at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, spoke on a panel on "Innovations in Tourism Industry" at World Tourism Economy Forum in Macau, and spoke in an expert panel on "Tourism's Tourism" at World Travel & Tourism Council Asia Summit, which was held in Seoul. He was recognized by his alma mater Georgia State University with an outstanding alumni award on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, and was also recognized by Virginia Tech's Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management with Michael D. Olsen Outstanding Alumni Award.
Erik Cohen Erik would like to draw the Fellows' attention to the attached article, which shows the position of Academy members within the network of leading tourism researchers. He also wants to draw their attention to the growing greed of publishers: a leading publishing house has recently asked for a fee of more than 400.00 Euro for the right of translation of one of his articles into German. This constitutes a major block for the dissemination of scientific knowledge.
Larry Dwyer Larry has given the following Conference Presentations recently: L. Dwyer "Does Tourism Positively Impact Upon Peace and Culture?" Contemporary Trends in Tourism and Hospitality," University of Novi Sad, 26-27 September 2013. (Keynote Address) T. Armenski,V. Dragićević, L. Dwyer. L. Knježević-Cvelbar, T. Mihalič, "Trend based destination competitiveness analysis – the case of Serbia" Contemporary Trends in Tourism and Hospitality," University of Novi Sad, 26-27 September 2013 L. Dwyer "A sustainability approach to tourism planning: The need for a new paradigm" Sustainability Issues and Challenges in Tourism, International Conference, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, October 3-5.(Keynote Address)
David Edgell In October, the Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs presented David with a special award to honor his new book Tourism Policy and Planning (second edition -2013). The book is now being used by a dozen different universities: both national and international. Recently it was nominated for an additional award that if selected, will be awarded in 2014.
Brian King Brian recently presented plenary addresses at two recent conferences in Malaysia. The first was the Global Tourism Cities conference in Kuching, Sarawak. The second was the Asia Postgraduate Forum for Tourism Graduates (APF) hosted by Taylor's University in Kuala Lumpur. He also presented with Hong Kong Polytechnic University colleagues at the launch of the Doctor of Hotel and Tourism Management (D.HTM) program in Hangzhou, China. The program has enrolled its first group of 25 students and is collaboration with Zhejiang University. Taught in Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese), the program parallels the Hong Kong based D.HTM and will help strengthen the scholarly skills of both educators and senior industry leaders in China. He has been involved with colleagues from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (including Academy Fellow Kaye Chon) in undertaking a consultancy project with King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The project involves developing a travel and tourism program to accompany the University's established hospitality programme initiatives. He has produced many journal articles, selected publications include: King, B.E.M., Breen, J & Whitelaw, P.W. (2013 published on-line) Hungry for Growth? SMTE Business Ambitions, Knowledge Acquisition & Industry Engagement International Journal of Tourism Research doi:10.1002/jtr.1926 King, B.E.M and Gardiner, S. (2013 published on-line) Chinese International Students. An Avant-Garde of Independent Travellers? International Journal of Tourism Research doi:10.1002/jtr.1971 Gardiner, S. King, B.E.M. & Wilkins, H, (2013) The travel behaviours of international students: nationality-based constraints & opportunities. Journal of Vacation Marketing 19(4): 287-299 Prentice C. & King, B (2013) Impacts of personality, emotional intelligence & adaptiveness on service performance of casino hosts. A hierarchical approach. Journal of Business Research 66 (9): 1637-1643 Tolkach, D, King, B.E.M. & Pearlman, M. (2013) An attribute-based approach to classifying community-based tourism networks Journal of Tourism Planning & Development 10 (3): 319 - 337 Charlie, C., King, B.E.M. & Pearlman, M. (2013) The Application of environmental governance networks in small island destinations: evidence from Indonesia & the Coral Triangle. Journal of Tourism Planning & Development 10 (1): 17-3 Ong, F., Pearlman, M., Lockstone-Binney, L. & King, B.E.M. (2013) Virtuous volunteer tourism: towards a uniform code of conduct. Annals of Leisure Research 16 (1): 72-86 Prentice, C, Chen J-P & King, B.E.M. (2013) Employee performance outcomes and burnout following the presentation-of-self in customer-service contexts. International Journal of Hospitality Management 35: 225-236
Chris Ryan Chris was a keynote speaker at the 2013 May World Tourism Hospitality and Events Conference hosted by the University of Siam in Bangkok, Thailand. Other Academy Fellows at the Conference included Eric Cohen, Stephen Witt and Kaye Chon. In addition to his keynote Chris conducted a workshop with Hailin Qu with Hanquin Zhang moderating, and presented a paper about visitors' experiences of what he termed 'daily events' at tourism attractions. He has recently gained publications in Annals of Tourism Research, the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Tourism Management and the Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing. In recent months he has been approached by the Boston Consulting Group, and the Financial Times for various comments and currently is undertaking research for Tourism New Zealand. In May he also completed a report on the use of cycle trails for a consortium associated with the New Zealand Cycle Trails Trust and the New Zealand Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. He also continues to teach!
Gareth Shaw Gareth has been awarded an extra 39,000 euro by the EU to fund the COST Action on Tourism Wellbeing and Ecosystem Services. This will take the funding to 189,000 euro/year for four years 2012-2016. The research network currently covers 29 countries and held its second meeting in Wageningen, The Netherlands in September 2013, which focused on the role of Tourism and Ecosystem Services. The network is also funding its first International Training School for PhD students in Warsaw in early November 2013. Further details of the Action can be found on: www.TObeWELL.eu
Allan Williams Allan has been awarded a research grant of £250,000 (c. US $400,000) by the UK's leading national research council, the Economic and Social Research Council. He will collaborate with Surrey colleagues, Professor Peter Jones, Professor Andrew Lockwood and Dr. Sangwon Park, to study labour productivity in UK hotels. The research addresses two questions that are of central importance to debates about both the hospitality sector and the UK national economy. How does the employment of international migrant workers impact on productivity? And, how do flexible working practices influence productivity? The team will also investigate the interaction between flexible working practices, and the employment of migrants. The research team will be co-operating closely with a leading Labour Management System provider Eproductive Ltd, who are facilitating privileged access to a uniquely rich data set for 80 hotels in the UK and the Netherlands. This data base provides information for all the departments and individual employees within these hotels, on an hourly or daily basis over a continuous six-year period that spans the 2008+ economic crisis. This data set will allow the team to undertake detailed time series analyses of the impacts on productivity of exogenous events such as the onset of global recession or the introduction of new immigration controls. It also provides data that will allow productivity to be analysed in both material and financial terms. Allan, and Zhelyu Vladimirov of the University of Sofia have also jointly been awarded a £193,000 (c. US $309,000) Marie Curie intra-European research fellowship by the EU's FP7 programme to study the global competitiveness of tourism SMEs. Dr Vladimirov will be employed at Surrey for two to undertake a series of comparative international and sectoral analyses of competitiveness, using both secondary and survey data.
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