Member Activities

Richard Butler

Richard spent three weeks in Australia as a guest of Griffith University (Gold Coast, Australia), working with fellow Academician David Weaver on research on tourism and climate change.

Richard has just completed the editing of two books to which other Academy members have contributed: TOURISM AND POLITICAL CHANGE, edited with Dr Wantanee Suntikul (IFT, Macau), to be published early in 2010 by Goodfellow, includes contributions by Tom Baum, David Harrison, Bob McKercher, and Allan Williams; and GIANTS OF TOURISM: KEY INDIVIDUALS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM, with Dr. Roslyn Russell, (RMIT, Melbourne), to be published later this year by CABI, which includes a contribution from Geoff Wall.

Erik Cohen

Erik is currently engaged in the study of global medical travel ("medical tourism") and of human-animal engagement in Thai tourism. The following are some of his forthcoming publications:  

 “Tourism, Leisure and Authenticity”, Tourism Recreation Research, 35(1), 2010.
 “Dinosaurs in Thai Culture and Tourism,” Tourism, Culture and Communication, 10(2), 2010.
 “Confirmation vs. Contestation of Tourism Theories in Tourist Jokes,” Tourism Analysis, forthcoming 2010. 
  (with M. Neal) “Coinciding Crises and Tourism in Contemporary Thailand,” Current Issues in Tourism, forthcoming 2010.
  (with M. Neal) “A Muslim Tourist Enclave in Bangkok” submitted to a book on Muslim tourism, edited by N. Scott and J. Jafari.
 “Tourism Crises – A Comparative Perspective” International Journal of Tourism Management,  forthcoming 2010.

Graham Dann

In December 2009 Graham witnessed the publication of a book that he coedited with Giuli Liebman Parrinello on "The Sociology of Tourism: European Origins and Developments". The book is volume 12 in the Tourism Social Science Series with series editor Jafar Jafari and associate editor (this volume) Dennison Nash. A number of Academy members contributed country chapters, including Marie-Francoise Lanfant (France), Krzysztof Przeclawski (Poland), Boris Vuconic (Former Yugoslavia), Julio Aramberri (Spain). The publisher was Emerald, UK.

Doug Frechtling

Doug published an introduction to the Tourism Satellite Account as recently approved by the United Nations Statistical Commission in the Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 37, Number 1 (January 2010): "The Tourism Satellite Account: A Primer".

Chris Ryan

Chris was the keynote speaker at the 2nd Asian Academy Heritage Management Conference hosted by the Institute for Tourism at Macau in December 2009. He continues as editor of Tourism Management which he anticipates may reach the milestone of having 1 million downloads of articles in 2010 in one year. With Professors Gu Huimin and Kaye Chon Chris was a co-winner of the Hai Sik Sohn Award for best conference paper for APTA 2009, and with one of his doctoral students, Hazrina Ghazali won the Emerald Publishing Best Paper award for the 2nd International Hospitality Management Conference in New Zealand. His next book, in Mandarin is due to be published in 2010 with Professor Lin Wang by Nankai University Press and deals with issues relating to destination planning. He wishes all his colleagues well for the Year of the Tiger.

Pauline Sheldon and Daniel Fesenmaier

Pauline and Daniel will be convening the 4th Annual Summit of the Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) in San Sebastain, Spain from April 15-18, 2010. Numerous Academy Fellows are engaged with this initiative.  This meeting entitled "Tools for Change and New Challenges" will continue the development of values-based educational tools and will identify new challenges faced by tourism educators into the next decade. The White Paper based on the TEFI work to date is available on www.tourismeducation.org

Valene Smith

Valene was honored in late January as the Board of Trustees,  California State Universities and Colleges approved  naming  a  new facility  the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology  Located  with prime student and community access, the 4000 sq. ft. venue serves as exhibit hall for displays created by graduating seniors in the Museum Design course.  The curriculum, when implemented in 1970 was the first of its kind west of the  Rockies, and is still unique with  emphases on design, collection management, and conservation

The signal honor accorded to Valene recognizes her dual scholarly contributions: the 1977 pioneer study of tourism  HOSTS AND GUESTS,  The Anthropology of Tourism  and her 60 years of Arctic field work and research. The first exhibit, Living on Top of the World, focuses on Arctic  cultures,  A Northern Lights Conference  February 26-28, will bring to Chico the Honorable William Hensley, architect of the Alaska Native Land  Claims Settlement Act of 1971, and fellow IAST member and Arctic/tourism specialists, Nelson Graburn. In campus slang, the Museum is termed  "the Valene" and is a growing repository for Valene's ethnic collections, books and entries of her field notes and papers to be accessible for future scholars.

Norbert Vanhove

Norbert, secretary general TRC is preparing the 45th annual meeting of the Toursist Research Centre which will take place in Vienna from March 25 to March 28. The local organiser is Karl Wöber  from the Modul University. About 25 senior tourism researcher will exchange during two days research topics of the last year.

Norbert was also invited by  Lulea University of Technology (Sweden) to teach a postgraduate course in economics of tourism at  INSTROCT - Departement of International Tourism & Hospitality, in Tehran, Iran.  Lulea University is supporting The university INSTROCT.

David Weaver

David was the invited keynote speaker at the 66th TOSOK (Tourism Sciences Society of Korea) Academic Symposium and International Tourism Conference in Chungnam, South Korea, 2 July, 2009. The title of his address was “Twenty years of sustainable tourism: Where are we now?”

David also received an ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery grant of AU$70,000 for 2010-2012 to undertake the project titled Toward Tourism/Conservation Symbiosis: Engaging Protected Area Visitors in Focused Life-long Activism. The purpose of the project is to gauge the willingness of protected area visitors to engage in activities such as replanting, donations, bequests, etc. that enhance the environmental integrity of the focus park.  Visitors will be surveyed in Lamington, Springbrook and Tamborine national parks in the Gold Coast hinterland of Australia.

Arch Woodside

Arch and Carol have recently completed the publication “Advancing Consumer Behaviour Theory in Tourism via Visual Narrative Art” in International Journal of Tourism Research, published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/jtr.762.

Co-editing with Carol M. Megehee, Alfred Ogle, Arch has also published a new book: Perspectives on Cross-Cultural, Ethnographic, Brand Image, Storytelling, Unconscious Needs, and Hospitality Guest Research, Volume 3 of the book series: ADVANCES IN CULTURE, TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY RESEARCH, which is published by Emerald Publishing, 2009.  This book includes seven papers: Preface, Arch G. Woodside, Carol M. Megehee, Alfred Ogle (pp. xiii-xv); Cultural psyche and cross-cultural research methods, Patricia Berwick (pp. 1-19); Brand image, equity, and sports sponsorship, David N. Bibby (pp. 21-99); Using an ethnographic approach to understand the adjustment journey of international students at a university in England, Lorraine Brown (pp. 101-141); How consumption values affect destination image formation, Haywantee Ramkissoon, Robin Nunkoo, Dogan Gursoy (pp.143-168); Morphology of a hotel tradition: The guest questionnaire, Alfred Ogle (pp.169-214); and How unconscious needs influence traveler's interpretations and preferences of alternative tours and hotels Xuan Van Tran, Arch G. Woodside (pp. 215-308).