Dr. Keith Hollinshead Professor of Tourism Studies Luton Business School University of Luton, England

"Tourism and Public Culture"
(The Dynamics of Our Contemporary Tribal Lives)
Mary Ann Wolfe Theater ~ FIU Biscayne Bay Campus
Thursday, April 11, 2002, 6:00 PM

Dr. Keith Hollinshead is one of those rare individuals who has moved from the operational world of tourism management to the transdisciplinary realms of public culture/cultural studies. As a cross-disciplinary scholar, he now investigates the anthropological, political, and philosophical issues spawned by the expansion of travel and tourism around the globe. 

He first studied ancient history at Leeds University in England, and then completed the M.Sc. in Management Studies at Loughborough University, also in England, before completing the Ph.D. in Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University. He now brings broad adisciplinary and critical counter-disciplinary outlooks to the study of public culture, heritage studies, and tourism sciences. He is Vice President (for International Tourism) of the International Sociological Association and Associate Editor of the following three specialist international peer review journals: Tourism Analysis, Tourism, Culture and Communication, and Current Issues in Tourism. Moreover, he serves on the editorial boards of Tourism Management and the Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing. 

Dr. Hollinshead has spent most of his "applied" career in Australia, including as the first Promotions Manager of the huge Yulara International Tourist Resort (alongside Ayers Rock/Uluru National Park) in the Northern Territory's Red Center. He also has been a tourism and leisure consultant in Australia and Wales, as well as in Colorado and Texas. A citizen of both Australia and England, he currently is Professor of Tourism Studies at the Luton Business School at the University of Luton in England. 

His books include Tourist Resort Development: Markets, Plans and Impacts, and The Possum Stirs: Folklore in Australia; and he now is working on Journeys in Otherness: The Representation of Differences in Cultural Tourism, and Tourism and Cultural Values: Tourism and Cultural Dynamics of Peoples, Places, and Pasts. He also has published scholarly articles in several journals, including the Journal of Parks and Recreation Administration, Society and Natural Resources, Leisure Studies, Tourism, Culture, and Communication, International Journal of Tourism Research, and the Journal of Leisure Research.