NHTV is honoured to announce that Professor Dr. Brian Wheeller has accepted the position of associate professor for Tourism Destination Management in the Academy for Tourism at NHTV. He has taken up his position on January the 1st, 2010. Brian Wheeller is a Visiting Professor of Tourism at Breda University of Applied Sciences since 2003. Brian Wheeller holds degrees in Economics, in Applied Economics, in the Economic Impacts of Tourism, and in American Studies. His doctorate on Critiquing Eco/Ego/Sustainable Tourism contextualises the debate within the wider arena of tourism planning and management, policy and practice. Further more he is Adjunct Professor of Tourism, University of Tasmania, Australia; Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, UK; Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University and at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Prof. Dr. Brian Wheeller
Recently Brian Wheeller has given keynote presentations at three international conferences: ‘The Best of Times: The Worst of Times’ at the Cities as Creative Spaces for Tourism, University of Bogazici, Istanbul, Turkey: ‘What do they know of Tourism who only Tourism know’ at the Beyond the Boundary: Creating New Epistemologies in Tourism, University of West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados and ‘Sustainable Tourism? Time to Exit Fantasy Land’ at the ‘Sustainable Tourism …Just Do it’ conference at Etten-Leurs, The Netherlands.
A personality like Brian Wheeller will help strengthen the leading role that NHTV would like to play in international tourism destination management around the world.
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