Sharpley, Richard
Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. He has previously held positions at a number of other institutions, including the University of Northumbria (Reader in Tourism) and the University of Lincoln, where he was professor of Tourism and Head of Department, Tourism and Recreation Management. He is co-editor of the journal Tourism Planning & Development, a resource editor for Annals of Tourism Research and a member of the editorial boards of a number of other tourism journals. His principal research interests are within the fields of tourism and development, island tourism, rural tourism and the sociology of tourism and his books include Tourism and Development: Concepts and Issues (2002, with David Telfer) Tourism and Development in the Developing World (2008, with David Telfer), Tourism, Tourists and Society, 4th Edition (2008); The Darker Side of Travel; The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism (2009, with Philip Stone); Tourism, Development and Environment: Beyond Sustainability (2009); and Tourist Experience: Contemporary Perspectives (2011, with Philip Stone). A further collection on tourist experiences, The Contemporary Tourist Experience: Concepts & Consequences, was published in 2012, and a second edition of Tourism and Development: Concepts and Issues, was published in 2015.
Harrison, David
David Harrison has been Professor of Tourism at Middlesex University since 2014. Before then, he was Professor of Tourism at the University of the South Pacific (1996-1998 and 2008 to 2014) and similarly at London Metropolitan University (1998-2008). Since 1987, his research has concentrated on tourism in deveioping societies. He is is author of The Sociology of Modernisation and Development, (Routledge, 1988), and editor of numerous texts on tourism, including: Tourism and the Less Developed Countries, (Belhaven,1992). Pacific Island Tourism (Cognizant 2003), The Politics of World Heritage ( with Michael Hitchcock, Channel View, 2005), Tourism and the Less Developed World, (cab International (l2001). More recently, he has edited Tourism in Pacific Islands (with Stephen Pratt, Routledge, 2015) and, with Richard Sharpley, Mass Tourism in a Small World (CAB International, 2017)
Andrews, Hazel
is Reader in Tourism, Culture & Society at Liverpool John Moores University. Hazel is interested in issues of identity, selfhood and the body principally in relation to tourism and travel. Her PhD thesis was the first full-length ethnographic study of British charter tourists, which involved periods of participant observation in the resorts of Palmanova and Magaluf on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Hazel has drawn on this fieldwork to publish a number of journal articles and book chapters. She is the author/editor of six books including the monograph The British on Holiday published by Channel View in 2011. More recently she edited a collection titled Tourism and Violence (Ashgate, 2014) in which her own chapter included work based both on Mallorca and Menorca. Hazel is chair of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Tourism Committee.
Weaver, David B
received his PhD in Geography from the University of Western Ontario (Canada) in 1986. He is currently Professor of Tourism Research at Griffith University, Australia, and has published more than 120 journal articles, book chapters and books. He maintains an active research agenda in sustainable destination and protected area management, ecotourism, and resident perceptions of tourism. Current projects include investigating the willingness of protected area visitors to participate in site enhancement activities. Professor Weaver has published extensively in leading journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research and Journal of Sustainable Tourism. His widely adopted textbooks include Tourism Management (5th ed.) and Ecotourism (Wiley Australia), Encyclopedia of Ecotourism (CABI), and Sustainable Tourism: Theory and Practice (Taylor & Francis). He is a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and has delivered numerous invited international keynote addresses on innovative tourism management topics. He has worked with organisations such as UNWTO and PATA as an expert advisor.
Aramberri, Julio
is visiting professor at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE), Dalian, People's Republic of China. He has previously held academic positions at Hoa Sen University, Saigon, Vietnam (2009-2013); Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (1999-2009); and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1964-1984). Prior to that, he undertook postdoctoral studies at the London School of Economics (1971-1974). He worked for the Spanish Tourist Administration (1985-1999) where he became its Director General (1987-1990). Dr Aramberri has authored or co-authored eight books on sociological subjects and over 50 refereed articles. His Modern Mass Tourism (2010) was translated into Spanish (2012) and Chinese (2014). He is Charter Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.
Bianchi, Raoul
is Reader in International Tourism and Development in the School of Business and Law at the University of East London. His work encompasses the geopolitics and international political economy of tourism with a particular focus on tourism, border politics and citizenship as well as issues of tourism, capitalism and development. He has a particular interest in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean and also tourism in islands and coastal regions. He has been involved in and led a range of funded research projects including 'Mediterranean Voices' (2002-2006, Euromed Heritage II), and is the co-author (with Marcus Stephenson) of Tourism and Citizenship: Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities in the Global Order (Routledge, 2014). He is currently a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a long-standing member of the Research Committee on International Tourism (International Sociological Association).
Bleasdale, Sue
is Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing, Branding and Tourism at Middlesex University. With a background in Development Studies and Geography she currently teaches Tourism Policy and Sustainable Tourism. She has a long-term interest in tourism policy as a pathway to development in Tunisia. She is currently also working on the role of stakeholder management in tourism sustainability in coastal resorts.
David Harrison (Edited By) David Harrison has been Professor of Tourism at Middlesex University since 2014. Before then, he was Professor of Tourism at the University of the South Pacific (1996-1998 and 2008 to 2014) and similarly at London Metropolitan University (1998-2008). Since 1987, his research has concentrated on tourism in deveioping societies. He is is author of The Sociology of Modernisation and Development, (Routledge, 1988), and editor of numerous texts on tourism, including: Tourism and the Less Developed Countries, (Belhaven,1992). Pacific Island Tourism (Cognizant 2003), The Politics of World Heritage ( with Michael Hitchcock, Channel View, 2005), Tourism and the Less Developed World, (cab International (l2001). More recently, he has edited Tourism in Pacific Islands (with Stephen Pratt, Routledge, 2015) and, with Richard Sharpley, Mass Tourism in a Small World (CAB International, 2017)Richard Sharpley (Edited By) Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. He has previously held positions at a number of other institutions, including the University of Northumbria (Reader in Tourism) and the University of Lincoln, where he was professor of Tourism and Head of Department, Tourism and Recreation Management. He is co-editor of the journal Tourism Planning & Development, a resource editor for Annals of Tourism Research and a member of the editorial boards of a number of other tourism journals. His principal research interests are within the fields of tourism and development, island tourism, rural tourism and the sociology of tourism and his books include Tourism and Development: Concepts and Issues (2002, with David Telfer) Tourism and Development in the Developing World (2008, with David Telfer), Tourism, Tourists and Society, 4th Edition (2008); The Darker Side of Travel; The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism (2009, with Philip Stone); Tourism, Development and Environment: Beyond Sustainability (2009); and Tourist Experience: Contemporary Perspectives (2011, with Philip Stone). A further collection on tourist experiences, The Contemporary Tourist Experience: Concepts & Consequences, was published in 2012, and a second edition of Tourism and Development: Concepts and Issues, was published in 2015.
