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Member Activities

Alan A. Lew

Alan is involved in several tourism conferences in Asia for 2013.  In chronological order, these include:

  1. Coastal, Island and Tropical Tourism, 16-18 April 2013, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia - This is where Alan was based for his Spring 2012 Fulbright Research Award - http://geog.nau.edu/igust/sabah2013/.
  2. Sustainable Tourism in Urban Environments, 8-10 May 2013, Hong Kong - a formal call for papers will be announced soon.
  3. IGU Tourism Commission Pre-Conference, 28 July-3 Aug 2013, Beppu-Miyajima-Naojima, Japan - this is a traveling conference, with a different city each day, and space will be limited - a formal call for papers will be issued soon. The preconference will be followed by the IGU Regional Conference, 4-9 August 2013, Kyoto, Japan - http://www.igu-kyoto2013.org/.
  4. Emerging Landscapes and Frontiers in Tourism Research, 20-22 September 2013, Kanas N.P., Xinjiang, China - located at the intersection of China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan, this may be the most remote conference ever held and will have a maximum of 100 participants (both international and domestic) due the park's limited facilities. - http://www.geog.nau.edu/igutc/china2013/.

 


Allan Williams

Allan was a keynote speaker at the BESTEN conference on sustainability and mobility in Provence in June, and at the Royal Geographical Society Geography of Leisure and Tourism Study Group’ postgraduate forum at Surrey in September 2012. He has published papers on: self-organizing innovation networks and the Hotel du Vin chain in the Journal of Economic Geography v12 (5), with Academician, Gareth Shaw; on international migration and innovation in small London hotels in Mobilities 7(3); and human mobility in functional urban regions in the International Review of Sociology 22 (2).

 


Brian King

Brian has joined the School of Hotel & Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Professor where he is Director of postgraduate programs including the well established Doctor of Hotel and Tourism Management which has now been approved for delivery in China.

Recent publications include;

  1. Charlie, C., King, B.E.M. & Pearlman, M. (2012). The Application of environmental governance networks in small island destinations: evidence from Indonesia & the Coral Triangle. Journal of Tourism Planning & Development.
  2. King, B.E.M. & Buckingham, C. (2012). Melbourne. A Liveable and Sustainable City that loves Visitors. In Lipman, G et al (eds) Green Growth & Travelism. Goodfellow Ltd, UK.
  3. King, B.E.M., Breen, J & Whitelaw, P.W. (2012 published on-line). Hungry for Growth? SMTE Business Ambitions, Knowledge Acquisition & Industry Engagement. International Journal of Tourism Research.
  4. Prentice, C & King, B.E.M. (2012). Emotional intelligence and adaptability – service encounters between casino hosts and premium players. International Journal of Hospitality Management.
  5. Prentice, C, King, B.E.M. & Ohtsuka, K. (2012). Casino Service Quality, Tiered Customer Segments, and Casino Player Retention. Services Marketing Quarterly.
  6. Tolkach, D., King, B.E.M. & Pearlman. (2012). Community-based tourism in Timor-Leste: Current status and future opportunities. Tourism Planning & Development.
  7.  Zeng Z.L., Prentice. C & King, B.E.M. (2012 published on-line). To Gamble or not? Perceptions of Macau among Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong Visitors. International Journal of Tourism Research.

 


Chris Ryan

Chris now edits in addition to Tourism Management a second journal entitled Tourism Management Perspectives (also published by Elsevier and cited by Scopus and ScienceDirect).

Earlier this year he co-edited a book with Ken Hyde and Arch Woodside, namely Field Guide to Case Study Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure. Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing.

He won an award as an outstanding research scholar from the The University of Waikato Management School, while one of his doctoral students, Sun Minghui, went on to win a best student research award from the same university. With another of his doctoral students, Yang Jingjing, he secured a publication in Annals of Tourism Research (Jingjing now lectures as Surrey University) and he also helped another of his doctoral students, Cora Wong to gain publications in Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing  and Annals of Tourism Research.

 


Richard Butler

Richard and co-editor Wantanee Suntikul (Macau IFT) have just had published Tourism and War by Routledge. This book builds on their earlier publication Tourism and Political Change (2010) and explores the varying relationships between tourism and war over the past two thousand years in a variety of geographical and political situations.

 


Dimitrios Buhalis

Dimitrios will host the ENTER2013 - eTourism Opportunities and Challenges for the next 20 years. CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF ENTER! -  Innsbruck Austria, 22-25 January 2013 http://www.enter-2013.org/.

 


Erik Cohen

Erik was awarded the UNWTO Ulysses Prize for 2012.

 


Geoffrey Crouch

Geoffrey and J. R. Brent have compiled a new two-volume set titled Competitiveness and Tourism published by Edward Elgar Publishing. Details are available at http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_mainUS.lasso?id=14266. These volumes bring together the key scholarly articles which discuss the challenges of managing, maintaining and enhancing competitive tourism destinations. This authoritative collection of articles covers service sector competition; conceptual models of tourism competitiveness; the measurement and modelling of tourism competitiveness; organizing, planning and management issues; tourism marketing; price competitiveness and demand elasticity; sustainability issues and case studies of tourism competitiveness from around the world. Along with an original introduction by the editors, this two-volume set is designed for scholars, students and practitioners interested in a deeper understanding of the nature of tourism competition and implications for tourism and destination management.

 


Geoffrey Wall

Geoffrey has been accorded a Tianshan Award, ‘For outstanding service to economic and social development in Xinjiang’ by the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. He has been involved in a variety of aspects of tourism planning but the most time-consuming and important task has been providing assistance in the preparation of nomination documents for submission to UNESCO for designation of Xinjiang Taishan as a World Heritage site. It is hoped that formal designation of the World Heritage site will occur next year.

 


Larry Dwyer

Larry has changed his status at the University of New South Wales. He traded off 0.6 of his salary to become a Research Professor, relinquishing all teaching and administrative responsibilities (except PhD supervision). In sum, he is 0.4 fractional Research Professor, a seamless transition to a better quality of life. Larry is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Ljubljana and has just returned from undertaking some collaborative research and conducting guest lecturers in Europe.

Recent research includes

  1. L. Dwyer, A. Gill and N. Seetaram (eds). (2012). Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
  2. L. Dwyer and E. Wickens (eds). (2012). Event Tourism and Cultural Tourism, Taylor and Francis, UK.
  3. D. Nash, S. Smith, P. Pearce and L. Dwyer. (2012). History of Tourism Thought: Social Science Beginnings, Tourism Social Science Series, Emerald Group Publishing, UK.
  4. L. Dwyer and N. Seetaram (eds). (2012). Advances in Tourism Economics, Routledge, forthcoming.
  5. N. Kulendran and L. Dwyer. (2012). “Modelling Seasonal Variation in Tourism Flows with Climate Variables”, Tourism Analysis, Vol 17 no 2 or 3.
  6. T. Koo, R. Wu, L. Dwyer. (2012). “Dispersal of visitors within destinations: descriptive measures and underlying drivers”, Tourism Management, Volume 33, Issue 5, Pages 1209-1219.
  7. L. Dwyer and F. Thomas. (2012). “Tourism Yield Measures for Cambodia”, Current Issues in Tourism, Vol. 15, No. 4, May pp 303-328.
  8. L. Dwyer, P. Forsyth, R. Spurr. (2012). “Wither Australian Tourism?: Implications of the Carbon Tax”,  Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, volume 19, July, pp 1-16.
  9. H. Song, L. Dwyer, G. Li and Z. Cao. (2012). ‘Tourism Economics Research: A Review and Assessment’,  Annals of Tourism Research, vol 39, (3) pp 1653-1682.
  10. Assaf and L. Dwyer. (2012). ‘The World Tourism Industry: Where Does Your Country Stand?’, Forthcoming Tourism Economics.
  11. L. Dwyer. L. Knežević Cvelbar, D. Edwards, T, Mihalic. (2012). ‘Fashioning a destination tourism future: The case of Slovenia’ forthcoming, Tourism Management.
  12. L. Knezevic Cvelbar and L. Dwyer. “An Importance-performance Analysis of Sustainability for long term Strategy Planning in Slovenian Hotels”, forthcoming Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
  13. P. Forsyth, L. Dwyer, N. Seetaram, B. King. “Measuring the Economic Impact of Migration- Induced Tourism”, forthcoming Tourism Analysis.
  14. L. Dwyer, P. Forsyth, R. Spurr, S. Hoque. “Economic Impacts of Carbon Taxes on the Australian Tourism Industry”, forthcoming Journal of Travel Research.
  15. L. Dwyer. L. Knežević Cvelbar, D. Edwards, T, Mihalic. “Tourism Firms’ Strategic Flexibility: the case of Slovenia”, forthcoming International Journal of Tourism Research.

 


Muzaffer Uysal

Muzaffer has co-authored the following papers in academic journals;

  1. Li, R., Meng, F. and Uysal, M. (2012). Understanding China’s Long-haul Outbound Travel market: An Overlapped Segmentation Approach, Journal of Business Research. Online Available.
  2. Kara, D., Uysal, M. and Magnini, V. (2012). Gender Differences on Job Satisfaction of the Five-Star Hotel Employees: The Case of the Turkish Hotel Industry. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Online Available. 
  3. Kim, K., Uysal. M. and Sirgy, J. (2012). The Effects of Tourism Impacts upon Quality of Life of Residents in the Community, Tourism Management. Online Available.
  4. Prebensen, N., Woo, E. and Uysal, M. (2012). An Examination of Arctic Region Visitors Segmentations Based on Motivation and Quality of Vacation Experience; A case of Norway, Tourism Analysis, in Press.
  5. Prebensen, N., Woo, E. and Uysal, M. (2012). Motivation and involvement as antecedents of the perceived value of the destination experience. Journal of Travel Research. Online Available.
  6. Uysal, M. (2012). Tourism and Quality of Life (QOL): Research for 2020: The Hospitality and Tourism Industry by 2020. HOSTEUR, Volume 21, No 1, pp. 36-38. (Invited).
  7. Yolal, M., Woo, E. and Uysal, M. (2012). Comparative Research of Motivations across Different Festival products. International Journal of Event and Festival Management. 3(1); 66-80.

Muzaffer was invited by the Ministry of Education to serve as member of a team to review Higher Diploma in Tourism Management and Event Management for accreditation: ADVETI – Abu Dhabi (April 20-27, 2012. United Arab Emirates). He served as the chair for the visiting team and the team prepared a report on the review outcomes for the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of UEA.

Muzaffer was a Visiting professor, June 30 – July 15, 2012, at University of Cagliari - Department of Economics and Business Studies, Cagliari, Sardinia – Italy and conducted two seminars:  Seminar I.  Tuesday, July 10, 2012 – Place: Oristano; New issues in tourism management - this seminar was attended mostly by students from Oristano University and some guests from the university and community.

Seminar II - Thursday, July 12, 2012 – Place: Villasimius; Tourism development and sustainability in the community.  His seminar presentation was part of a workshop that consisted of the following tree more individuals:   Mayor of Villasimius, Salvatore Sanna, Bruno Paliaga, Director of Protected Coastal Area (PCA), and Roberto Ghessa, Sales Manager of Hotel Stellar Maris.   The panel workshop was open to public.

Serving as member of Conference Organizer Committee on Quality of Life and Tourism Research; Theories, Practices, Applications and Challenges, December 10-13, 2012, Brunico – Italy.  I already reviewed 53 abstracts (one to two pages in length) for this conference.

Serving as Scientific Committee member for the 13th National, Tourism Conference, December21-23, 2012. Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.

 


Pauline Sheldon

"The Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) will hold its seventh annual meeting April 13-16, 2013 in Oxford England. The theme this year is "Tourism Education For Global Citizenship: Educating for Lives of Consequence" and will be hosted by Oxford Brookes University - thanks to Fellow Chris Cooper. Two of our keynote speakers are Nigel Morgan, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK and Anna Pollock, Conscious Travel, UK.  If you are interested in presenting, attending or need more information please contact Pauline at psheldon@hawaii.edu. The conference will be held immediately after the SKOLL World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at the Oxford University. We are planning synergistic events.

TEFI faculty also visited Latin America in September this year to work with tourism educators from Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador identifying the challenges and opportunities they face moving into the future. Seminars to introduce faculty to the TEFI principles, goals and tools were held at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil as part of the CLAIT conference."

 

 

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