Professor Brian King
Associate Professor Stephen Craig-Smith
Dr Thomas Bauer
Professor David Harrison
Professor Emeritus Mervyn Hyde
Dr Felix Kolbeck
Associate Professor Laura Lawton
Dr Russell Arthur Smith
Professor Eva Werner
Professor Philip Pearce
Associate Professor Dianne Dredge
Dr Rajka Presbury
Dr Stuart Jauncey
Professor Brian King
Chair, THE-ICE Assessment Panel, School of International Business,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hong Kong
Professor Brian King recently moved to Hong Kong to take up a Professorship in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He previously occupied various leadership roles at Victoria University including Pro Vice-Chancellor (Industry & Community) and Head of the School of Hospitality, Tourism and Marketing (1998-2007). He has been a Visiting Professor in Italy, the USA and in Hong Kong.
Professor King has extensive tourism management experience and maintains his industry involvements at board level (Destination Melbourne) and as a mentor (as Chair of the Business Mentoring Panel in the Victorian Tourism Awards). He has consulted extensively to international development agencies in the areas of tourism marketing and human resource development.
He has published widely in the fields of tourism marketing, planning and human resource development and has authored or co-authored several books including:
* Creating Island Resorts
* Asia-Pacific Tourism: Regional Co-operation, Planning and Development
* Tourism Marketing in Australia
* Case Studies in Tourism and Hospitality Marketing
He was Chair of the International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE) (2008-2010) and is currently Chair of THE-ICE Panel of Auditors.
Brian is Foundation and Current Joint Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Tourism, Culture and Communication. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and of the Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education.
Associate Professor Stephen Craig-Smith
Head of School of Tourism, The University of Queensland
Inaugural and immediate past Chair of THE-ICE Assessment Panel, A/Professor Stephen Craig-Smith has been Head of the School of Tourism of The University of Queensland from 1988 until 2000 and again since mid-2010. He is also Chair of Teaching and Learning. He is a member of the Queensland Ministerial Advisory Panel to the Minister of Education, a member of the Hong Kong Accreditation Council. He was created an inaugural fellow of CAUTHE for services to tourism education in 2008.
A/Professor Craig-Smith is closely involved with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific-Asia Pacific Education and Training Institutions in Tourism (UNESCAP-APETIT) network and has been made an Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Tourism. He has also been awarded the status of Visiting Professor with the University of Victoria, British Columbia and the University of Nottingham in the UK, a Visiting Academic Fellow with the School of Business and Marketing, Curtin University and an inaugural Fellow of CAUTHE.
A/Professor Craig-Smith is currently a member and project Chair of Queensland Education Accreditation Council for Hospitality and Tourism and is the Director-General’s nominee on the Wine Industry Development Industry Development Committee with special Committee reference to wine tourism. He has also worked extensively in the Pacific Islands with funding from island governments and United Nations ESCAP.
His research interests revolve around many aspects of tourism higher education:
- Tourism education especially at undergraduate level
- Tourism development programs in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China (Academic advisor)
- Urban tourism - the use of tourism for economic regeneration
- Island tourism - Pacific and Caribbean island tourism
A/Professor Craig-Smith has conducted numerous consultancy works such as environmental management and in particular coastal environmental management in the U.K., Caribbean and Australia, curriculum development at secondary school level with the Queensland State Government and at university level in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China etc.
Dr Thomas Bauer
Assistant Professor
Dr Thomas Bauer has been involved in the hotel and tourism industry since 1971 and has travelled in some 70 countries on all continents. He has worked in Germany, Japan, Fiji, the United States, Australia and Hong Kong.
From 1989 to 1999 Dr Bauer was a tourism academic at Victoria University in Melbourne. He joined the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999 as an Assistant Professor in Tourism. He is one of the leading experts on Antarctic tourism and has travelled to the region on 19 occasions as researcher, lecturer guide and Zodiac driver.
He is a Rainforest Guardian of the Australian Rainforest Foundation. He is a well published author of several books, numerous book chapters, published refereed articles, as well as refereed conference papers. Dr Bauer has been involved in tourism consultancies for the United Nations World Tourism Organization, the Hong Kong Government and for Provincial governments in mainland China.
He has undertaken numerous consultancies and professional practices, such as:
- the appointment as the sole consultant and author of the mission report for the Technical Assistance Mission to Vietnam: Formulation of a Strategy on Human Resource Development in Tourism (August 2005) for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation
- the engagement by IBM Business Consulting Services (November 2004 – ongoing) as the Senior Tourism Specialist for the Scoping Study on Tourism Information Infrastructure for the Tourism Commission of the HKSAR etc.
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Professor David Harrison
Head, Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, The University of the South Pacific, Suva Fiji
Professor David Harrison is the Professor and Head of School of Tourism and Hospitality Management of the University of the South Pacific (USP), Fiji. After studying Sociology and Social Anthropology in London, he taught for many years at the University of Sussex and at London Metropolitan University, and also spent a year at the University of Bendel State in Nigeria. Immediately before coming to USP, he was at the Overseas Development Institute in London.
A sociologist of development, with specific reference to tourism, since the mid-1980s his teaching and research have focused on the economic, social and cultural aspects of tourism in less developed countries, and he has carried out research and written on tourism in the Eastern Caribbean, Southern Africa, Eastern Europe, South-east Asia and the South Pacific.
He is on the Editorial Board of several prominent tourism journals, including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism and Hospitality Planning and Development, Tourism Recreation Research, Tourism, Culture and Communication, Tourism Review International and Current Issues in Tourism. In the UK, he was one of the first judges of the now-established Tourism for Tomorrow awards.
He has written many papers in major tourism journals, most recently focusing on pro-poor tourism. Among his books are the single-authored text The Sociology of Modernisation and Development (1988), and he has edited others on:
- Tourism and the Less Developed Countries (1992)
- Sustainable Tourism in Islands and Small States: Case Studies (1996, with Lino Briguglio, Richard Butler and Walter Leal Filho)
- Tourism and the Less Developed World: Issues and Case Studies (2001), Pacific Island Tourism (2003), and
- with Michael Hitchcock, The Politics of World Heritage: Negotiating Tourism and Conservation (2005).
In the late 1990s, he was heavily involved in writing Ecotourism and Village-based Tourism: A Policy and Strategy for Fiji. More recently, his consultancy work has focused on tourism in South-east Asia, most specifically Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam and (with the co-operation of local experts) he recently completed a preliminary study on tourism and the environment in the Lower Mekong Basin.
Professor Harrison’s current research is on the impacts of tourism in the South Pacific and the extent to which the benefits of different kinds of tourism are diffused throughout the population.
Professor Emeritus Mervyn Hyde
Professor and Academic Director of the International Projects Group, University of the Sunshine Coast and Auditor of Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Australia
Professor Merv Hyde is the Professor and Academic Director in the International Projects Group at the University of the Sunshine Coast and Adjunct Professor and Principal Research Fellow at Griffith University. He has been Head of the School of Education and Professional Studies in the Faculty of Education at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University and Head of School of Justice Administration. He was also Vice-Chair or Chair of the Griffith University Academic Committee and Chair of the University Education Committee for seven years.
He has a strong background in areas of academic and student policy development and in many areas of staff policy and management. He is also experienced in the development and management of teaching and learning policies and practices in higher education. He has significant experience in the private higher education sector and has prepared evaluation reports on non-self-accrediting institutions for two state Offices of Higher Education.
For over 30 years Professor Hyde has worked in South East Asian nations as an agent of the Australian Vice Chancellor Council (AVCC), Australian Government Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) or the Department for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA), as a consultant to inter-governmental groups, and in program development, policy development and staff development. He was appointed in 2000 by the World Bank as a Technical Consultant on undergraduate education at the University of Indonesia.
His fields of research and teaching expertise are:
- Education
- Inclusive education
- International education
- Human development and learning
In 1994 Professor Hyde was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) by the Governor General for his contributions to education in Australia and Indonesia.
Professor Dr Felix Kolbeck
Dean, Department of Tourism, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich Germany
Professor Kolbeck is the Dean of Students of the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Tourism. He represents the faculty in the transnational research project ClimAlpTour (Climate change and its impact on tourism in the alpine region), funded by the European Union.
Before he came to University in 2004, Professor Kolbeck had worked for one the largest Tourism Groups worldwide, the TUI AG in Hannover/Germany. He is experienced in tourism management, controlling, accounting and project management.
As the Dean of students, he was responsible for the transition of the former ‘diplom’ degree programs to new bachelor and master courses from 2005 to 2010. Due to this experience, he has been working internationally on programme accreditations for several accreditation companies in the recent years.
Professor Kolbeck is also involved in consultancies, lectures and projects in the area of climate change impacts on tourism.
Professor Kolbeck is a graduate economist (Diplom-Ökonom) and has a PhD in Political Sciences (Topic: Sustainable Management Systems).
Professor Kolbeck’s areas of teaching are:
- Basics of Business Administration in Tourism,
- Management of Tourism Groups
- Management Methods
- Airline Management
- International Controlling & Accounting
- Case Studies in the Tourism Industry
Associate Professor Laura Lawton
Deputy Head of Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management Griffith University, Gold Coast Australia
Dr Laura Lawton is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management on the Gold Coast Campus of Griffith University, Australia. She was formally the Program Director for the Master of Business Programs in the Department. Previously she held appointments at the University of South Carolina and George Mason University, Virginia, USA. She previously taught at Bond University, Gold Coast.
Prior to entering academia she was Senior Research Officer/Policy Analyst for Saskatchewan Environment and Natural Resources in Canada. A/Professor Lawton holds a Master of Arts degree (Geography) and Bachelor of Arts (Honours – Urban Planning) from the University of Western Ontario (Canada). In 2002 she was awarded a PhD from Griffith University. Her thesis examined resident perceptions of tourist attractions on the Gold Coast.
A/Professor Lawton has authored or co-authored numerous government reports, academic journal articles and book chapters in several areas, including protected areas, ecotourism, resident perceptions of tourism, and cruise ship tourism. She is the co-author of the tourism text ‘Tourism Management,’ published by John Wiley and Sons Australia, and served for five years as the Editor-and-Chief for ‘Tourism Review International’, an international refereed journal. She also sits on the board of four academic journals.
A/Professor Lawton’s research expertise include:
- Cruise ship tourism
- Ecotourism
- Event management
- Sustainable tourism
Dr Russell Arthur Smith
Interim Dean, Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management, Singapore
Dr. Russell Arthur Smith is a hospitality and tourism development expert who has extensive academic and professional experience in Asia, as well as in North America and the Middle East. He is the Interim Dean of Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management in Singapore.
Dr. Smith has headed large multi-disciplinary teams for the preparation of major hospitality and tourism development plans. In addition, he has served on many private and public boards and committees throughout the Asia Pacific as well as held appointments in universities in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States of America.
He holds a doctorate from Harvard University and a degree in architecture with first class honours from the University of Queensland. He is also a Certified Practising Planner.
Currently Dr Smith is the Chair of the Board of Examination of Shatec Institute in Singapore, The Faculty Hospitality and Tourism Advisory Board of Hue University in Vietnam. He is also the School of Hospitality Advisory Committee members of the Republic Polytechnic in Singapore and a director of the Board of the International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education (THE-ICE) Australia and the Asia Pacific Tourism Association (APTA).
Professor Eva Werner
Rector IMC, University of Applied Sciences, Krems Austria
Professor Eva Werner holds a degree from the University of Vienna, studied also in France (Sorbonne in Paris) and Canada (University of Concordia). Her professional experiences comprise, among others, some years of lecturing at the College of Tourism, Vienna, several years of full-time assistantship and teaching at the University of Business Administration Vienna and the Danube University Krems.
From 2005 to 2009, Professor Werner was one of the five Austrian Bologna Experts (the first in the field of Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences) and as such actively contributed to the implementation of the Bologna process in Austria as well as abroad. Her international commitment is highly recognised and was honoured in 2007 with the award of the Honorary Professorship from the Moscow International Business School (MIRBIS).
Professor Werner is currently chairing the International Committee of the National Conference of Universities of Applied Sciences thus largely responsible for the representation of the Universities of Applied Sciences at an international level.
She was a member of the steering committees for the development of the IMC programmes, and has been in charge of the international relations network of the University since 1998. As a result of her dedication and effort, the institution was awarded the Quality Label for Mobility (2002) as well as the Diploma Supplement Label twice (2006 and 2010), a quality label for excellent performance according to the Bologna structures. In her function as Head of the International Relations, she has on the one hand strongly enhanced the internationalisation of the IMC, and on the other hand actively contributed to the strategic orientation of the IMC University of Applied Sciences.
Since 2002, Professor Werner has been the Deputy Head of the Academic Board of the University. In 2005, she was the elected Vice-Rector and as such re-elected in 2008. Her expertise on the implementation of the Bologna process has led to several invitations for keynote speeches and session presentations at national and international conferences and seminars.
Since 1st January 2010, Professor Werner has been Rector of the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, the first female rector of an Austrian University of Applied Sciences responsible, among others, for the development and the quality assurance of the degree programmes on offer at the IMC Krems.
Professor Philip Pearce
Head of Discipline – Tourism Events & Sport &
Foundation Professor of Tourism, James Cooke University, Australia
Professor Philip Pearce is a member of the School of Business Executive responsible for setting the strategic direction of the school and managing its programs and curricula. He grew up in Adelaide South Australia and completed a 1st Class Honours degree in Psychology and a Diploma of Education at the University of Adelaide. He won a scholarship to the University of Oxford (UK) where he completed a doctorate in psychology (D.Phil) studying tourists’ social and environmental perceptions in Europe.
Professor Pearce returned to Australia teaching briefly at Flinders University before coming to James Cook University to teach in behavioural sciences. He published in the psychology and tourism studies areas and was appointed the First Professor of Tourism in Australia. He is strongly committed to both teaching excellence and research excellence as goals of an academic life.
He is fundamentally interested in the behaviour and experience of tourists. I see this interest as providing a sound core to help understand tourism in general. The interest is developed in several ways. It focuses in part on why people participate in tourism and therefore involves studies of tourist motivation. It is also developed in understanding what tourists do on site (eg at theme parks, at museums, at attractions and in everyday tourist settings). Such studies consider tourists’ emotional reactions, attitudes, behaviours and cross cultural travel experiences. Additionally, the interest in tourist behaviour extends to the consequences of tourists’ actions. Here there is a concern with tourists’ satisfaction and learning as well as with the sustainability of what they do and their impact on local people and places.
Professor Pearce is constantly working on projects. Currently his focus is with the following themed areas:- Tourist shopping villages and tourist shopping
- Well being positive psychology and tourist behaviour
- Backpackers and their development
- The design of experiences for visitors
- Tourism education and educator development.
Some awards Professor Pearce values are:
- George Murray scholarship to Oxford University
- Fulbright scholar to Harvard University
- Honorary Professor of Tourism, Xi’an International Studies University, China
- Foundation member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism
- Invited Professor: Masters coursework teaching, AILUN, Sardinia, Italy, IULM Milan, Italy, and Assumption University, Thailand
- Pro Vice Chancellors’ award for research excellence
- Vice Chancellor’s award for Excellence in research supervision
- Key note speaker invitations in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Israel, Australia
- Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) for outstanding contribution to tourism education (2008)
Associate Professor Dianne Dredge
Associate Professor, Southern Cross University, Queensland Australia
Dianne Dredge is the Associate Professor of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Southern Cross University at Beachside Campus, Coolangatta, Queensland. She is a qualified planner with 20 years’ experience in tourism and environmental planning in Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) and a number of international locations. Her career has included periods working in both private and public sector contexts, which together distinguish her as a practical and forward thinking tourism and environmental planner.
A/Professor Dredge has extensive accreditation experience:
- She was a member of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA)'s National Education Committee from 2005 to 2008. Tasks involved reviewing and preparing new accreditation standards for all professional planning degrees in Australian higher education institutions
- From 2008 to 2011 as an academic with the School of Environmental Planning at Griffith University A/Professor Dredge was also responsible for documenting and preparing the University's accreditation submission as Discipline Head of Planning
- From December 2010 to July 2011 she sat on the Professional Advisory Board of the University of Sunshine Coast's Regional and Town Planning Program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, to assist and guide the development of the programs for accreditation from the professional body
- In 2007 Dianne won a national Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for "leadership in the development and delivery of planning education that links theory and practice and instils in students a passion and enthusiasm for environmental planning". Currently A/Professor Dredge is the project leader for the Australian Learning & Teaching Council project "Building a better future: Balancing liberal and professional education in tourism and hospitality education" - a collaboration between 4 higher education institutions offering tourism and hospitality degrees and have 'champions' progressing the research in a total of 18 institutions from Australia.
Dianne has an active research agenda exploring and publishing in areas including:
- destination planning and management
- tourism planning and policy
- local government tourism capacity building
- place-based tourism land use planning
- tourism places and change management
- tourism organisations
Dr Rajka Presbury
Senior Lecturer, Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School, New South Wales Australia
Dr Presbury is a senior lecturer at the Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School (BMIHMS). From 1999 to 2008, she was lecturer and course coordinator of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the College of Business, University of Western Sydney. From 1995 to 1998 she was the Senior Lecturer of the William Blue College of Hospitality Management (formerly known as William Blue Hotel Management School). Prior to joining academia, Dr Presbury gained extensive professional experience in the hotel sector and had held a number of management positions in Banqueting Services, Restaurant, and Event Sales & Conventions. She is a member of the Australian Human Resources Institute AHRI, Australian Hotel and Motel Association AHMA, Country Women’s Association, Council for Australian University Tourism & Hospitality Higher Education (CAUTHE) and Landcare Group.
Dr Presbury has written book chapters and numerous journal publications on sustainable development of tourism in areas such as sustainable operations management, human resource management, managing sustainable festivals, meetings & events etc. She has supervised a number of PhD candidates and her research interest includes:
- sustainable tourism development
- hotel service quality and attributes
- cultural tourism
Dr Stuart Jauncey
Dean, the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management, Dubai
Dr Jauncey is the Dean of the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management, Dubai. He was the former Head of the School of Hotel and Catering Studies at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT in Ireland (2001 to 2007), where he founded the West of Ireland Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research in 2002. He has also established several new degrees and academic progression routes for all students, enabling them, upon successful completion of basic cookery or other operational programmes, to progress to degree and postgraduate qualifications.
Prior to GMIT, Dr Jauncey was a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University (formerly known as the Oxford Polytechnic) since 1990. He was promoted to the position of Undergraduate Programmes Director in 1995 and in 1998, he established the Centre for Environmental Studies in the Hospitality Industry, which is now recognised as a centre of excellence for industry focused environmental research. Under his direction, this centre completed a great many research and consultancy projects - including the establishment of a grading system for monitoring hotels’ compliance with environmental guidelines, and a national action plan for dealing with hospitality waste.
Dr Jauncey is a consummate hospitality professional with extensive experience in the field. Unusually, two of his early jobs involved palaces - Blenheim Palace in the United Kingdom and the Emir’s Palace in Kuwait, where he was Operations Manager.
Dr Jauncey has successfully supervised in excess of 35 Master students and two Doctoral candidates. He was the appointed external examiner for hospitality and business for numerous institutions/organisations in the UK such as the Henley College in Coventry, the Irish National Tourism Certification Body, Colchester Institute, East Anglia Polytechnic University, Thames Valley University, Athlone Institute of Technology, Shannon Hotel School to name a few. Since 2008, Dr Jauncey is an appointed member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Hospitality Management.
Dr Andy Nazarechuk
Dean – American Degree Programme Taylor’s University Malaysia
Dr. Andy Nazarechuk is the newly appointed Dean of the American Degree Program at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Taylor’s University is one of Malaysia’s oldest, most successful, and reputable private educational institutions, attracting students from around the world. The American Degree Program at Taylor’s University currently has over 700 undergraduate students with 50 faculty and staff. Dr. Andy will be using his extensive international experience to help students who seek to further their educational opportunities in the U.S. and Canada.
Dr. Andy Nazarechuk, Immediate Past President of APacCHRIE, is a leader in both the academic and the professional worlds of hospitality development. Dr. Andy, as he is known to his colleagues and students, serves on several prestigious committees, including the United Nations World Tourism Panel of Tourism Experts, the Development Agency Tourism Industry Skills & Training Council, and the International Advisory Board for Singapore Pools.
He is an internationally renowned speaker, facilitating workshops, teaching courses, and addressing conferences and conventions for hotel professionals and academics on topics including strategic planning, customer service quality, human resource motivation, education, and hospitality management. He is also a highly respected project manager and industry consultant. His collaboration has been sought for international initiatives in countries around the world including China, South Korea, France, Poland, Ukraine, Egypt, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Oman, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, Macau, Palau, and Saipan.
Dr. Andy holds both a Bachelor and Master of Science degree in Hospitality from the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), as well as a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of La Verne, California. His extensive professional background in the hospitality industry includes serving as the Director of Catering and Convention Services at the Sahara Hotel, which at the time was one of the largest facilities in Las Vegas. During his seven years with the Sahara, Dr. Andy coordinated a wide variety of special events. In 1986, he opened the Catering and Convention Department for the Tropicana Hotel featuring a 100,000 square foot convention facility. From 1993 to 1999, Dr. Andy served as Director of the Hospitality Research and Development Center (HRDC), the research and service division of the Harrah Hotel College of UNLV.
Dr. Andy also served as the Founding Dean of University of Nevada Las Vegas’s Singapore Campus (2005 – 2011). He designed and developed the resources and programs for this modern, technologically advanced facility. The program began with 35 students in 2006 and grew to over 500 students during Dr. Andy’s tenure.
Contact information: Andy.Nazarechuk@taylors.edu.my
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