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Member Activities

David Airey

David is in Australia for the first two months of 2012 where he is taking up a W James Whyte Visiting Research Fellowship at the School of Tourism, University Queensland. While he is there he will be working with Dr Lisa Ruhanen on a project to examine tourism policy making in Australia. This draws upon his recent work with Dr King Chong on policy-making in China which was published in book form “Tourism In China: policy and development since 1949”. The W James Whyte visiting fellowship has received significant support from Mr Whyte and is designed to establish research partnerships, to support UQ staff and to provide workshops. Since the first fellows arrived in UQ from the University of Oregon in 2010, scholars in tourism have spent time in Brisbane from UK and from other parts of Europe.

 


Tom Baum

Tom has recently completed a report on 'Migrant Labour in the International Hotel Industry' for the International Labour Organization. The report, based on a survey of major global companies, will inform ILO policy in this area.

 


Dimitrios Buhalis

Dimitrios is organizing the following conferences:

 


Dick Butler

Dick (and co-editor, Wantanee Suntikul, Macau) have completed and submitted Tourism and War: A Complex Relationship to Routledge for publication later this year. The volume has 22 chapters, including one by Academy Member Myriam Jansen Verbeke.

Dick was keynote speaker at conferences at the University of the Algarve and the University of Alicante at the end of 2011. He is currently working with fellow Academician Tom Baum on editing a book on Tourism and Cricket, Travels to the Boundary to be published by Channelview Publications.

 


Erik Cohen

Erik has continued his work on medical tourism, animals and tourism, disasters and tourism, tourism humor and festivals. His recent and forthcoming publications include the following:

  • “Confirmation versus Contestation of Tourism Theories in Tourist Jokes”, Tourism Analysis, 15(1), 2010, pp. 3-16.
  • “Coinciding Crises and Tourism in Contemporary Thailand”, Current Issues in Tourism, 13(5), 2010, pp. 455-175. (with M. Neal)
  • “Medical Travel – A Critical Assessment”, Tourism Recreation Research, 35(3), 2010, pp. 225-237.
  • “Dinosaurs in Thai Culture and Tourism”, Tourism, Culture and Communication, 10(2), 2010, pp. 117-135.
  • “Tourism Crises: A Comparative Perspective”, International Journal of Tourism Policy, 3(4), 2010, pp. 281-296.
  • ”Tourism and Land Grab in the Aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami”, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 11(3),2011, pp. 224-236.
  • “The People of Tourism Cartoons”, Anatolia 22(3),2011: 326-349.
  • “Medical Tourism and the Quality-of-Life” in M. Uysal, R. Perdue and J. Sirgy (eds.): Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life, Dordrecht: Springer, 2012, pp. 169-191.
  • “’Buddhist Compassion’ and ‘Animal Abuse’ in Thailand’s Tiger Temple”, forthcoming in Society & Animals, 2012.
  • “A Muslim Tourist Enclave in Bangkok”, forthcoming in Tourism Geographies. (with M. Neal)
  • “Contesting Discourses of Blood in the ‘Red Shirts’ Protests in Bangkok”, forthcoming in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • “Tattoo Tourism in Thailand”, forthcoming in M. Smith and G. Richards (eds.): Handbook of Cultural Tourism.
  • “Body Piercing in ‘Modern Primitivism’ and in Thailand’s Vegetarian Festival: A Comparative Study”, forthcoming in Tourism, Culture and Communication, 2012.
  • “The Vegetarian Festival and the City Pillar: The Appropriation of a Chinese Religious Custom for a Cult of the Thai Civic Religion”, forthcoming in Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change.
  • “Fetuses in a Thai Buddhist Temple as Chaotic Irruption and Public Embarrassment”, forthcoming in Asian Anthropology, 2012.

 


Douglas Frechtling

Douglas prepared for the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), a policy paper entitled, “Exploring the Full Economic Impact of Tourism for Policy Making: Extending the Use of the Tourism Satellite Account through Macroeconomic Analysis Tools”. This was presented the T.20 Tourism Ministers’ Meeting in Paris in October, 2011. The paper explains how the results from a country’s Tourism Satellite Account can be extended to other impact measures through Input-output Models, Social Accounting Matrices and Computable General Equilibrium Models. 

He has also co-authored a distance-learning course for the UNWTO that explains the Tourism Satellite Account and how it can be used for economic impact analysis and other policy-making. This course should be available from the UNWTO in 2012.

Finally, he was one of two keynote speakers at the Second International Conference on the Measurement and Economic Analysis of Regional Tourism in Bilbao, Spain, October 28-29., 2011. The Conference was sponsored by INRouTE, the international network on regional economics, mobility and tourism. He urged that this new organization focus on developing an agenda for research that will increase destination managers’ knowledge about the impacts of visitors and forecasting future demand.

 


Brian King

Brian has taken on the role of Professor in the School of International Business at Victoria University in Melbourne following an extended period as Pro Vice-Chancellor. He has been reappointed as Chair of the Business Mentoring Panel, Victorian Tourism Awards. He has also been appointed as Chair of the Assessment and Accreditation Panel with the International Centre of Excellence for Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE).

His recent publications include:

  • Chiang, C., King, B.E.M., & Nguyen, T-H. (2012). Information searching and the travel behaviours of MICE travellers: A cross-cultural study. International Journal of Tourism Research, 14(2), 103-115
  • Prentice, C., & King, B.E.M. (2012). Emotional intelligence in a hierarchical relationship – evidence for frontline service personnel. Services Marketing Quarterly, 33(1), 34-48

 


Alan A. Lew

Alan is currently spending six months (January to June 2012) in Malaysia where he is enjoying a Fulbright research award to examine on coastal tourism development in Sabah and Terengganu. While there, he will also be making short visits to Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong and China for conferences and guest lectures.

 


Chris Ryan

Chris continues to edit the journal Tourism Management which in 2011 received 717 submissions and had 1.5 million downloads. In 2012 the first issue of its companion journal, Tourism Management Perspectives appeared (to access details of the journal just use your search engine with the journal name) and it uses the same criteria as the original journal). He has also had publications in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketingand Asia-Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. In December 2010 he spoke as a keynote speaker at the Conference hosted by fellow academician Professor Kaye Chon, and was thus able to meet colleagues John Tribe, Abe Pizam, Rick Perdue and Cathy Hsu among other colleagues. At the same time he was then able to enjoy a holiday on Lantau, visited Macau and gave a presentation at the Institute of Tourism Studies. For those who enjoy spectacular theatre he would recommend a visit to the Dancing Waters show – which claims to have spent HK$2 billion on staging. He for one, believes it!

 


Muzaffer Uysal

Muzaffer and his co-authors, R. Perdue and J. Sirgy, published the following book:

  • Uysal, M., R. Perdue and J. Sirgy.  (2012). Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research: Enhancing the Lives of Tourists and Residents of Host Communities. The Netherlands, Springer, Dordrecht, 746 pages, Hardcover, ISBN 978-94-007-2287-3.

 


Norbert Vanhove

In November 2011, Norbert was teaching ‘Economics of Tourism’ in an executive tourism master program at Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), organized by the Asian Institute of Technology.

In December 2011, he was invited by Poznan University of Economics to give three conferences on the topics: (a) Sense and nonsense about tourism multiplier, (b) Competitiveness in tourism, and (c) Demand and supply trends in tourism.


Arch G. Woodside

Arch published the following journal article and book:

  • “Incompetency Training:  Theory, Practice, and Remedies”, Journal of Business Research, 65, 2012, pp. 279–293.
  • Tourism sensemaking: Strategies to give meaning to experience”, Volume 5 in Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Emerald, 2011, 231 pages.

Table of contents:

  • Blog Analyses of International Visitors' Interpretations of Sights and Own Experiences in Visiting three South American Cities, Laura Colt (pp. 1-37)
  • Cross-Cultural Heterogeneity in Tourist Decision Making, Antónia Correia, Metin Kozak, João Ferradeira (pp. 39 - 61)
  • New Third Places: Opportunities and Challenges, Anne P. Crick (pp. 63-77)
  • Information Usefulness of Tourism Destination Websites: California, Florida, and New York, Maria Knoerr, Carol M. Megehee (pp. 79-88)
  • Cultural Heritage Fashion Branding in Asia, Eunju Ko, Seulgi Lee (pp. 89-109)
  • Emic Interpretations of Global Gaming Destinations: Travel Blog Stories about Experiencing Macau, Las Vegas, and Monaco, Danyang Lu (pp. 111-152)
  • Visitors to Mauritius: Using IPA to Discern Cultural Differences in Image Perceptions, Girish Prayag (pp. 153-175)
  • Network Analysis Methods for Modeling Tourism Inter-Organizational Systems, Noel Scott, Rodolfo Baggio, Chris Cooper (pp. 177-221)
  • Narrative Analysis for Decoding Marketer–Customer Interactions in Hospitality Contexts, Arch G. Woodside, Linda Jane Coleman (pp. 223-231).

 

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