Professional Activities
Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Travel Research
The mission of the Journal of Travel Research is to be the premier, peer-reviewed research journal in travel behavior, management and development. Specific goals are to be international in scope with geographic diversity, to be multidisciplinary with diversity in research topics and methodologies, and to be germane to the travel industry in the majority of its articles.
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Member of the Editorial Board, Tourism Economics
Tourism Economics , published quarterly, covers the business aspects of tourism in the wider context. Articles address the components of the tourism product (accommodation; restaurants; merchandizing; attractions; transport; entertainment; tourist activities); and the economic organization of tourism at micro and macro levels (market structure; role of public/private sectors; community interests; strategic planning; marketing; finance; economic development).
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Member and Past President, Travel and Tourism Research Association
The Travel and Tourism Research Association is a professional organization comprised of providers and users of travel and tourism research, and serves as a primary resource to the travel and tourism industry. As the global leader, TTRA advocates standards and promotes the application of quality travel and tourism research and marketing information. Organized in 1970, TTRA comprises an international network of more than 800 travel and tourism research and marketing professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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Member of the UNWTO Committee on Statistics and Tourism Satellite Account
The Committee is a subsidiary advisory of the United Nations World Tourism Organization Executive Council. Its duties include:
- proposing initiatives related to the design and implementation of tourism statistics international standards
- promoting international comparability of tourism statistics by proposing initiatives relative to the collection, homogeneity, processing and dissemination of data
- helping member countries in their initiatives to improve their respective national systems of tourism statistics (STS) and in the development of the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA)
- liaison with other international bodies with delegated responsibilities for leadership and coordination of related international statistics and their standards within sphere of the UN system.
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Fellow, The Tourism Society
The Tourism Society is the professional membership body for people working in all sectors of the visitor economy. With around 1200 members in the UK and worldwide, the Society was founded in 1977 with the aim of driving up standards of professionalism in a fast-growing global industry which can have major social, economic and environmental impacts on communities and nations.
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Member, International Academy for the Study of Tourism
The Academy is an international organization created to enhance both theoretical and practical research in the field of tourism. Its membership is comprised of highly accomplished tourism researchers from throughout the world. The goal of the Academy is to further the scholarly research and professional investigation of tourism. Related objectives include: (a) encouraging the application of tourism research findings and (b) advancing the international diffusion and exchange of knowledge about tourism.
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Member, World Future Society
The World Future Society is an association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. The Society was founded in 1966 and is chartered as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. The Society strives to serve as a neutral clearinghouse for ideas about the future. Ideas about the future include forecasts, recommendations and alternative scenarios. These ideas help people to anticipate what may happen in the next 5, 10, or more years ahead. When people can visualize a better future, then they can begin to create it.
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Presentations/Seminars
The Washington, DC Response & Recovery from the 9/11 Attacks
International Destination Risk Management Conference
Presented by Bogazici University &
The George Washington University
June 7, 2004
Strategy Management and performance measurement for DMOS: A Balanced Score Card Approach
Ulysses Conference on Excellence in Public/Private Tourism Destination Management
World Tourism Organization, Madrid, Spain,
June 2, 2005
AN ASSESSMENT OF VISITOR EXPENDITURE METHODS AND MODELS
Presented to the 37th Annual Conference of the Travel and Tourism Research Association
Dept. of Tourism and Hospitality Mgmt. Schoolof Business
The George Washington University
June 18, 2006
MISAPPROPRIATION OF THE TSA BRAND: THE CASE OF STATE-LEVEL "TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNTS" PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES
Presented to the11th Meeting of the UNWTO Committee on Statistics and TSA
Madrid, Spain
March 25-26, 2010