In February David spent a month in Australia attending the CAUTHE conference and as W James Whyte visiting research fellow at the University of Queensland (UQ). He was working with Dr Lisa Ruhanen at UQ on tourism policy in Australia. Some of their work as recently been published Airey, D and Ruhanen, L (2014) 'Tourism Policy-Making in Australia: a national and
state perspective', Tourism Planning and Development 11(2) 149-162 10.1080/21568316.2013.864991
Four Academy Fellows (Jafar Jafari, Don Hawkins, Eduardo Fayos-Sola and Kaye Chon) attended the 2nd UNWTO Knowledge Network Global Forum and participated in a panel discussion on Innovations in Tourism.
Erik Cohen
Erik published the following journal articles and books:
"Tattoo tourism in the contemporary West and in Thailand", in M. Smith and G. Richards (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism, London and New York, 2013, pp. 183-189
"'Buddhist Compassion' and 'Animal Abuse in Thailand's Tiger Temple", Society & Animals 21(3), 2013, pp. 266-283.
"Body Piercing in 'Modern Primitivism' and in Thailand's Vegetarian Festival: A Comparative Study", Tourism, Culture and Communication, 12,2013, pp.51-68.
"Roadside Memorials in Northeastern Thailand," Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 66(4), 2013, pp. 343-363.
"Tourist Myths – a comparative Examination", Acta Turistica 25(1), 2013, pp. 7-20 (Croatian translation 2013).
"Bus Paintings in Thailand: A Post-Modern Urban Art Form in Comparative Perspective", ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 6(2), 2013, pp. 242-263.
"The Permutations of Thai Tourism," in Husa, K. (ed.) Southeast Asia Mobility Transitions – Recent Trends in Tourism and Migration. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung, 19, 2013.
"From Phra Phum to Phra Prom: The Cosmization of the Thai Spirit House," in Husa, K. (ed.) Southeast Asia Mobility Transitions – Recent Trends in Tourism and Migration. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung, 19, 2013.
Recreational Hunting: Ethics, Experiences and Commoditization. Tourism Recreation Research 39(1), 2014, pp. 3-17.
(with S.A. Cohen) "A Mobilities Approach to Tourism from Emerging World Regions", Current Issues in Tourism 2014 (pre-publication on Internet).
Frederic Dimanche
Frederic and a Spanish colleague obtained EU funding for a project , Netour, which is focusing on tourism development and higher education in Russia. The project brings together thirteen European and Russian universities and three other educational and training institutions.
As part of this project, they will be hosting in summer 2015 an international conference to address the benefits and challenges of tourism development in BRICS countries. The conference will be held in Sochi, home of the 2014 winter Olympics.
Contributions that will document the planning and development of tourism and the challenges to growth will be sought. Topics include but are not limited to tourism policy and management, tourism planning and impacts, tourism portfolio decisions, tourism management and marketing, tourism education and training, mega-events and BRICS, etc.
The conference aims to bring together academic expertise with the experiences of tourism professionals in order to promote communication and fruitful cooperation between them. Consequently specific sessions for academics and for professionals are planned. Moreover, policy makers in the area of tourism and education will be invited to the conference and contributions related to this topic will be welcome.
Larry has published the following papers recently:
P. Forsyth, L. Dwyer, R. Spurr (2014) 'Is Australian Tourism Suffering Dutch Disease?' Annals of Tourism Research Volume 46, May 2014, pp 1–15
P. Forsyth, L. Dwyer, T Duc Pham R. Spurr (2014) "The Impacts of Australia's Passenger Movement Charge on Tourism and the Economy" Tourism Management Vol 40 pp 126-136
L. Dwyer, T. Duc Pham, P. Forsyth, R. Spurr (2014) "Destination Marketing of Australia: return on investment " Journal of Travel Research Volume 53 Issue 3 May, pp. 281 - 295
L. Dwyer, L. Knežević Cvelbar, T. Mihalič, M. Koman (2014) "Destination Competitiveness: Testing the Integrated Model" Tourism Analysis Vol 19 no 1, pp 1-18.
J. Tan and L. Dwyer (2014) "Distribution Channel Conflicts in the Australian Hotel Industry" International Journal of Marketing and Business Communication, vol 3, (1), January, pp 9-19
C. Chen, L. Dwyer, T. Firth (2014) "Conceptualisation and Measurement of the Dimensionality of Place Attachment" Tourism Analysis vol 19, 3,
L. Dwyer, N. Seetaram P. Forsyth, B. King (2014) "Is the Migration-Tourism Relationship only about VFR?' Annals of Tourism Research, 46, pp 130–143
L. Dwyer. L. Knežević Cvelbar, D. Edwards, T, Mihalic (2014) "Tourism Firms' Strategic Flexibility: the case of Slovenia" International Journal of Tourism Research vol 16, 4,
And also he attended a conference:
L. Dwyer,' Economic evaluation of special events: reconciling economic impact and cost benefit analysis' The Impact of Events and Tourism, Symposium, University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, 20-21 March (Keynote address)
David Edgell
David has published an article titled "The Managerial and Educational Aspects of Developing and Sustaining Ecotourism in the Context of the Contentnea Creek Project in North Carolina." in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism.
Daniel Fesenmaier
Dan is moving to the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. His new email is drfez@ufl.edu.
Douglas Frechtling
Doug retired from George Washington University on June 30 after 25 years on the tourism and hospitality management faculty. He has been appointed Professor Emeritus of Tourism Studies and plans to continue publishing and engaging in occasional interesting consulting assignments.
Nelson Graburn
Nelson has been active teaching and travelling in the past few months:
In September 2013, he gave a paper "When is Heritage Alive or Dead? Reanimations of Ancient Roads" at the workshop Re-imagining the Silk Road: Travels, Texts, and Images, AHRC Research Network, at the University of Nottingham (19-21st September). On returning to Berkeley, he gave an extended version "When is Heritage Alive or Dead? Reanimation of the Ancient Silk Road" to the Tourism Studies Working Group (Oct. 4th)
In mid-October 2013, he taught for ten days at the Dept. of Tourism, Ningbo University, near Shanghai. His sponsor was Dr. Jin Lu (PhD Xiamen University) who had visited Berkeley as a graduate student (2010-2012) with whom he has co-authoured some publications.
In late October 2013, he left Shanghai, flying via San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Barcelona to Mallorca to attend the meeting "Celebrating and Enhancing the Tourism Knowledge-based Platform: A Tribute to Jafar Jafari" in honor of the founding editor of Annals of Tourism Research and the founder of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. [See photo below]
Shuzo Ishimori, Jafar Jafari and Nelson Graburn at Arima Onsen (Hot spring inn), in March 1989, during Jafar's visit to the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
In December, he flew to Paris to serve as examiner for the Soutenance [4-hour oral defense] of Linda Boukhris, Geography, University of Paris, Pantheon 1 – Sorbonne (Dec. 10th). Dissertation "Imaginaire national et imaginaire touristique au Costa Rica: Le Tourisme comme fabrique du territoire et de la nation." [Costa Rica's national imaginary and tourist imaginary: Tourism as the maker of the territory and the nation.]
On 11 December, he gave the lecture "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Ethnic Tourism and Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary China," Bachelard Amphitheatre, Univ. Sorbonne. (Sponsor: Prof Maria Gravari-Barbas) and 12 December he gave the same lecture at Université Libre, Brussels, (Sponsor, Prof Anya Diekmann), followed by a perambulating colloquium with Dr. Noel Salazar (U. Leuven).
In spring semester 2014, he taught his usual graduate seminar (continuous since 1977), Anthropology 250V "Tourism, Art and Modernity" with a diverse group of participants: two Americans (one undergrad.), two Chinese, and one each Swiss, French, and Chilean. Visiting speakers included: Dr. Gobi Stromberg who talked about her long term research on Tourism and the Silver Industry in Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico. She is authour of: Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda (2008), and El juego del coyote: platería y arte en Taxco(1985). And Prof. Zhang Xiaosong who discussed her research on "Experiments in Minorities Tourism Developments and Ethnic Arts in Guizhou Province." Professor Zhang (now Dean of Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang) is one of China's most dedicated and active scholars working to raise the quality of life and standard of living of rural minority communities. She is authour of the prize-winning 3-volume work 符号与仪式 : 贵州山地文明图典 / 张晓松著 ; 卢现艺摄影 [Symbols and Rituals: an Illustrated Introduction to the Civilization of the Guizhou mountains] Zhang, Xiaosong and Liu Xianyi (2006).
During the semester, he co-chaired Berkeley's very active Tourism Studies Working Group. In February they were visited by Profs. Jean-Francois Staszak and Dr. Estelle Sohier (Geography, Univ of Geneva) to plan our next joint [TSWG-IREST] international conference "Worlds of Desire: Eroticizing Tourist Places" to take place in Geneva, June 1015. We also had a number of other speakers, from Germany, France, Switzerland, and Prof Pan Shouyong (Minority U. of China, Beijing) on "China's Museum Boom" and our local Dean MacCannell on "How I became a Tourism Researcher."
In May 2014, he travelled to Leshan, Sichuan and gave a keynote address "Heritage Ancient and Modern: Patrimony, Rubbish and Rewards" at the Third Tourism Summit Forum "Heritage and Tourism: Cultural China", along with Michael Herzfeld (Harvard) and Laurajane Smith (ANU). He also lectured at Sichuan University, the Southwest University of Minorities, and Chengdu University of Information Technology. After a stay with Tourism Studies colleagues in Kunming, he returned via Beijing. There he lectured on heritage at Beijing Normal University, and on Chinese Ethnic tourism at Beijing Union University's Institute of Tourism (the first in China, founded in 1978 by Prof. Wang, who came to dinner with us).
The following week, he flew to Taiwan to present a keynote address "California Cuisine, International Travel, and Anthropology in Berkeley; or MacCannell in the Kitchen" at the 2014 International Conference on Food Show and Performance, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism. Later in the week he lectured on Chinese Ethnic Tourism at Graduate Institute of European Cultures and Tourism, national Taiwan Normal University, Taipei (Director, Dr. Yi-de Liu).
He also will be participating in several activities:
In July, he will give the keynote address on "Tourism Issues in Japan and China" to the Research Committee on International Tourism (RC-50), at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 13-19, 2014) in Yokohama. On Aug. 21st he participate with Prof. Margaret Swain in a colloquium on "Ethnic Tourism in Japan and China" organized by Prof. Takayoshi Yamamura of the University of Hokkaido, Sapporo.
At the biennial meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropology (29 Aug – 3rd Sept), he has organized and will chair am extended session EASA P004 "Tourism in Post- Socialist Eastern Europe" with twelve participants; he is also giving a paper on "MacCannell's Tourist: a modern figure on the move." In the session P044 "Key figures of mobility," organized by Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven) and James Coates (University of Sheffield).
Additionally, he has also been quite active in writing and publishing, though not as productive as he would have liked! Most of his articles are in Chinese, both original works and translations of prior works.
Two more volumes have been completed resulting from our 2011 Conference "Tourist Imaginaries/Imaginaires touristiques" (in Berkeley, organized by TSWG and IREST of Sorbonne). Tourism Imaginaries through an Anthropological Lens (edited by Noel Salazar and N Graburn) is in production with Berghahn, and Tourism Imaginaries: Place, Practice, Media (edited by Maria Gravari-Barbas et N Graburn) is in press with Ashgate. Another volume Cultural Tourism Movements: New Articulations of Indigenous Identity (Alexis Bunten and Nelson Graburn. eds.) is in press with University of Toronto Press.
Brian King
Brian recently ran an executive development workshop for the Hotels Association of India (HAI) in Delhi on the topic Evolution of the Chinese tourism phenomenon: are there any lessons for India? The workshop was attended by representatives from leading Indian hotel groups. Academy Fellow Bob McKercher (also from Hong Kong Polytechnic University) also ran a workshop for HAI on Crisis and Emergency Management.
He has been appointed Visiting Professor at Edinburgh Napier University. He will be involved in the tourism industry leadership programme which is being delivered by Napier in various locations within Scotland.
Brian and several other Fellows (Cathy Hsu, Geoff Wall and Kit Jenkins) were keynote speakers at a conference on Experiential Learning in Hospitality and Tourism hosted by Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST).
Geoffrey Wall
Following the successful nomination of Xinjiang Tianshan as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2013, Geoff has continued to provide input into nomination of potential sites in Xinjiang in northwest China. In particular the nomination documents for Xinjiang Altaishan have been completed. This is an extremely interesting initiative as there is already an Altai Mountains World Heritage Site in Russia and discussions have occurred with Kazakhstan and Mongolia who have expressed interest in collaboration to form a four country Altai Mountains site.
With Li Yang (Western Michigan University), Geoff recently published a book entitled Planning for Ethnic Tourism (Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2014). The empirical materials in this book are based upon field research conducted in Xishuangbanna in Yunnan, southwest China. The book brings together perspectives on ethnic tourism of four main stakeholders: governments, tourists, the business community, and Dai minority people, and draws practical lessons from their contrasting views.
