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Member Activities David Airey In the four days before the Academy's biennial conference held in Rhodes in May, eight Academy Fellows joined with five Greek counterparts in a workshop for tourism specialists in the region. The Workshop titled "Managing Tourism After the Crisis - a Mediterranean Perspective" dealt with five main themes: the markets and marketing; human resources and education; developing the destination; competitiveness; and economic contributions. Most of the 25 attendees at the Workshop were from the Eastern Mediterranean area representing the public and private sectors of tourism. The fellows: David Airey, Tom Baum, Dimitrios Buhalis, Geoff Crouch, Larry Dwyer, Alison Gill, Alastair Morrison and Pauline Sheldon are shown in the photograph with the participants and some of the Greek counterparts, including the host for the Academy Conference, Andreas Papatheodorou, of the Laboratory for Tourism Research and Studies of the University of the Aegean.
Tom Baum Released from the pressures of Second Vice-Presidentship of the Academy, Tom can now focus on his Newton Fund grant to research tourism employment in the SMART city. This two year study, in partnership with the Asian Institute of Tourism in the University of the Philippines, will use big data relating to a range of socio-economic indicators to inform strategic thinking about tourism employment in major cities of the future. This pilot will focus on Glasgow and Manila but the intended outcome is an approach to tourism workforce planning that has applicability in any major tourism city.
Dimitrios Buhalis Dimitrios is organizing and chairing these events:
Erik Cohen Erik has received an award from Chiang Mai University for his contribution to the study of tourism in Thailand.
Frederic Dimanche Frederic is moving from SKEMA Business School to Ryerson University. After 14 years in France where he developed the Center for Tourism Management and master-level programs in strategic tourism management, event management, and hospitality management, he will become the Director of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the College of Business at Ryerson in Toronto. Emerald should publish at the end of this summer a book titled Tourism in Russia: A Management Handbook. This book, edited by Frederic Dimanche and Lidia Andrades (University of Extremadura) contains chapters co-authored by European and Russian authors who worked together as part of the TEMPUS EU-funded project Netour.
Sara Dolnicar Sara has recently been awarded a highly competitive three-year Vice-Chancellor's Research Focused Fellowship at The University of Queensland. Selected recent publications include:
Brian King Brian recently passed the reins as Academy Treasurer to Doug Frechtling following two periods in the role (four years) Co-edited the following recently published book: This volume includes the following co-authored chapters
Journal articles
Brian recently completed a review of the Phuket (Thailand) – based Banyan Tree Management Training Academy (with PolyU colleague Ada Lo) He has been commissioned by the Hong Federation of Hotel Owners to prepare a report Towards a more Competitive Destination Hong Kong - An Industry Roadmap (with PolyU colleagues).
Philip Pearce Philip is pleased to publicize the book:
Chris Ryan Chris was recently back in China undertaking an assessment of Changshu City's tourism application for membership of the UNWTO Sustainable Tourism Project. Additionally, following his report for Xishuangbanna in 2014 he was invited back to Jinghong and the first Maori-Chinese Indigenous Tourism Conference took place under the auspices of UNWTO and Sun Yat Sen University with the second to occur in Kanas in 2016. He also revisited Huangshan and witnessed the significant changes in the area since his last visit just 7 years previously. Compared to his very first visit almost too many years ago - it would be difficult to recognize the area even though some villages like Xidi and Hungcun are in outward appearance similar. The new BMWs are not! Recent publications include
Geoff Wall The University of Waterloo has accorded the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus to Geoff Wall of the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. The title has been assigned in recognition of his "distinguished career and contributions to the University of Waterloo… important contributions as a tourism scholar of international repute … considerable impact as a mentor to many prominent scholars and as a consultant to national and international agencies". Also, Geoff's Visiting Professorship with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been renewed. Following the successful nomination of Tianshan as a World Heritage site by UNESCO last year, Geoff's main task will be to assist in the preparation of the nomination documents for the Altai Mountains. The mountains cross Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia, as well as China, making this a particularly challenging case.
Arch G. Woodside The publication of a special topics issue of the International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 4 (1), 2015 with Arch as the lead guest editor. The lead article, "Introduction: The tourist gaze 4.0: uncovering non-conscious meanings and motivations in the stories tourists tell of trip and destination experiences" (pp. 1-12) by Arch G. Woodside (Boston College) and Drew Martin (University of Hawaii) reviews the contributions of the articles in the issue and advances theory on John Urry's tourist gaze perspectives. Write to arch.woodside@bc.edu to request a reprint of this first article in the issue.
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