Council of Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education

keynote speakers

Confirmed keynotes include:

Prof. Adrian Franklin
Sociologist, University of Tasmania
and host of The Collectors on ABC TV
Professor Adrian Franklin trained as a social anthropologist in the UK, and has held Professorial positions at the University of Bristol, UK, the University of Oslo, Norway, and the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is Co-editor of Tourist Studies (with Mike Crang) and has written extensively on travel and tourism theory and the impact that modern mobilities have had on everyday life and the ordering of global modernity. His work has focused on social and cultural change in modernity, and this includes work on city life, the sociology of nature and environments, our relationships with animals, and the orderings of travel, mobility and tourism. His books include Tourism: An Introduction, Nature and Social Theory, Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia, Animals and Modern Cultures. City Life is due to be published in 2009. He is a Presenter and Panellist on the ABC1 Show Collectors and a regular commentator on ABC Radio National's By Design. His new book A Collectors Year will be published in 2008.

Mr Brad Norman
Marine Scientist, Murdoch University
Brad Norman, Project Leader and Biologist with the ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library, holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Marine Biology from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. His main research interests are whale shark biology and physiology, sustainable ecotourism and conservation, and sustainable fisheries management. Brad began studying whale sharks at NMP in 1994 and has continued research both in Australia and abroad. Over his many years of work, he has established that the natural patterning on the skin of these sharks does not change over time and can be used to identify individuals. His studies previously focused on the biology of the whale shark and the sustainability of the associated ecotourism industry, while his present work extends to international conservation projects related to this species. In addition to developing acoustic and satellite tracking programs at Ningaloo and Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Brad has discovered a new species of copepod living on the skin of whale sharks and also established the size at maturity of male whale sharks.

Mr Tim Harcourt
Chief Economist, Austrade
Tim Harcourt is the chief economist of the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade). As chief economist Tim analyses the global economy to help Australian exporters and helps Austrade devise its own international business strategies. A prolific author and globetrotter, Tim has visited over 40 countries in the past 4 years alone (on a seasonally adjusted basis, of course!).
Tim is an active economics commentator in the Australian and international media on economic and trade issues. Tim appears regularly on TV and Radio shows including on Business Lateline, Lateline, Business Today, Mornings with Kerry-Anne, Sunrise, Bloomberg, CCTV, BBC and CNBC Asia. Tim also writes for a number of major publications including The Australian Financial Review, The Business Review Weekly, The Age, The Australian, The Advertiser, The OECD Observer, The Economic Times and various website and blogs.
Before joining the Austrade, Tim was an economist and industrial advocate with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Tim has also worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and has overseas experience in the corporate sector in the UK the USA and Israel.
Tim’s book BEYOND OUR SHORES: Essays on Australia and the Global Economy and the sequel GOING THE DISTANCE and his articles and speeches can be found at: www.austrade.gov.au/economistscorner. His new book THE AIRPORT ECONOMIST is a top ten bestseller for business books and can be found at www.theairporteconomist.com and all good bookshops – including airport bookshops!

Prof. Steve Turton
Australian Tropical Forest Institute,
James Cook University
Prior to his current position, Steve was Associate Professor in Geography and Director of Research for the Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre, based at James Cook University. Steve's research interests include tropical climatology, rainforest ecology and natural resource management. Steve has published over 100 scientific papers in these fields of study, comprising refereed journal articles, book chapters and research monographs. He has also supervised over 50 honours and graduate research students during his time at JCU. He is the co-editor of a major book: N.E. Stork & S.M. Turton (eds.) 2008, "Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape", Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, 620p. Steve is a former Councillor of the Institute of Australian Geographers and an ex officio member of the Wet Tropics Management Authority’s Scientific Advisory Committee. He holds the position of honorary treasurer for the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Asia-Pacific Chapter. In 2008, he was appointed to the national leadership team for the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre Climate Change Destinations Adaptation Project and was also appointed as Team leader for the Cairns Region.

Prof. Greg Ashworth
Professor of Planning, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Professor Ashworth was educated at the Universities of Cambridge, Reading and London (PhD.1974). He has previously taught at the Universities of Wales and Portsmouth, and has been teaching at Groningen since 1979. Since 1994 he has been Professor of heritage management and urban tourism in the Department of Planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen (NL). Professor Ashworth's main research interests and published works include heritage management [‘Tourist-Historic City’ (Wiley, 1990); ‘Heritage Planning’ (Geopers) 1992;’Dissonant Heritage’ (Wiley, 1996); ‘European heritage planning and management’ (Intellect, 2001);’ A geography of Heritage’ (Arnold, 2001); ‘Construction of built heritage’ Ashgate 2001: ‘Senses of place: senses of time (Ashgate) 2005); Pluralising Pasts (Pluto 2007)]; tourism planning [‘Marketing in the tourism industry’ (Croom Helm, 1984); ‘Marketing tourism places’ (Routledge, 1990); ‘Tourism and spatial transformation’ (CABI, 1996); Horror and human tragedy revisited (Intellect, 2005)]; and place marketing [‘Selling the City’ (Wiley, 1990)].

Prof. Cara Aitchison
Critical Tourism, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Cara Aitchison is Dean of the Faculty of Education and Sport at the University of Bedfordshire, UK and Professor of Tourism and Leisure Studies. Cara's research focuses on the integration of social, cultural and spatial theories and policies of identity, equity and inclusion in and through tourism and leisure, with particular specialism in gender relations. Her recent books include Gender, Sport and Identity: Masculinities, Feminities and Sexualities (Routledge, 2007), Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging (with Peter Hopkins and Mei-Po Kwan, Ashgate 2007) and Gender and Leisure: Social and Cultural Perspectives (Routledge, 2003). She is currently working on Gender and Tourism: Social, Cultural and Spatial Perspectives to be published by Routledge. Cara is the principle award holder for the UK Economic and Social Research Council-funded seminar series on Tourism, Inequality and Social Justice, co-organised with Professors Nigel Morgan and Stephen Page. Cara is also an appointed member of the UK Research Assessment Exercise Panel for Sport-Related Studies (leisure and tourism expert) for RAE 2008, an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for Social Sciences, chaired the UK Leisure Studies Association 2001-2004 and chaired World Leisure's Women and Gender Commission 2002-7.

Dr Angela Roper
Hospitality, University of Surrey, UK
Dr Angela Roper is Savoy Educational Trust Senior Lecturer in Hospitality Management in the School of Management at the University of Surrey, UK. She is an internationally recognized researcher in her field with over 16 years of experience in teaching, learning and research in the area of the strategic management and the internationalization of hospitality and tourism firms. Over 70 academic papers and conference presentations have resulted from her research and she has been a Guest Editor for several journals. Angela holds Editorial Board positions on all the leading hospitality and tourism management journals and has been a Guest Editor for several journals. She currently holds the position of Vice-Chair on the Council for Hospitality Management Educators (CHME). Before joining the University of Surrey, Angela worked for 14 years at Oxford Brookes University, where she was Reader and Head of the Doctoral Programme in the Business School. Previous to embarking upon an academic career she worked as an Analyst for the Property and Leisure division of part of the Bank of Scotland Group.

Mr John Longley
Event Director, ISAF Sailing World Championships
John Longley is Event Director for the ISAF Sailing World Championships which will be held in Fremantle in December 2011. Until recently, John was Chief Executive Officer of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce. One of Australia’s most accomplished international yachtsmen, John had a long involvement with the America’s Cup, sailing as a crew member of five consecutive America’s Cup campaigns (1974 - 1987), including as a member of the crew on AUSTRALIA II during its historic win. In 1987, John was contracted by Bond Corporation to initiate the Endeavour Replica Project. In 1990, when the Bond Corporation could no longer proceed, John and members of the project staff continued work on a volunteer basis, while seeking new support, eventually achieving the establishment of the HM Bark Endeavour Foundation in 1991. ENDEAVOUR, launched in December 1993, has been an outstanding success, both at sea and as an international standard exhibit in Australia and New Zealand.

Ms Marilyn New
Fremantle Entrepreneur and Owner,
Esplanade Hotel
Marilyn New is the Managing Director and proprietor of Esplanade Hotels Group and Managing Director of Icorp – Intuit Corporation Pty Ltd and developer of the Victoria Quay Apartments. Amongst Marilyn’s many responsibilities and accomplishments are: Chairman, Holyoake Australian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Resolutions from 2000 to present; Finalist Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006; 2005 Winner Rotary International Paul Harris Award; 2001 Perth Convention Bureau Honorary Ambassador for WA; 1996-1998 Board Member of the Australian Tourist Commission; 1992 Acknowledged in the Fremantle Business Hall of Fame; 1990-1996 Chairman of The 500 Club; and Past President Fremantle Chamber of Commerce (first female President in 133 year history).

Prof. Haiyan Song
Economics and Modeling,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Haiyan Song is Chair Professor and Associate Director of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before joining the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2004, Professor Song was a Professor in Tourism Economics at University of Surrey in the UK. Professor Song has a background in economics and has published widely in such areas as tourism forecasting, competition issues in tourism, tourism development in Asia and tourism supply chain management. Professor Song is a Committee member of the China Tourism Academy of China National Tourism Administration and Fellow of International Academy for the Studies of Tourism.

Prof. Alison Morrison
Small Business Entrepreneurs,
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Professor Alison Morrison is Vice-Dean (Research) of the Strathclyde Business School at the University of Strathclyde. She has been publishing extensively and teaching since 1984, primarily in her specialist areas which are organisational learning in small businesses, cultural impacts on entrepreneurial behaviour, marketing of hospitality enterprises, and the interaction between entrepreneurs and government support agencies. Publications reflect an effective knowledge transfer strategy using the multiple mediums of academic texts, refereed journals, conference papers, as well as non-refereed documents targeting reflective practitioners and policy-makers. Evidence of the esteem in which Alison is held is provided in the wide range of visiting and external appointments that demonstrate her academic standing at both national and international level. She has taught entrepreneurship in hospitality and tourism extensively overseas at universities in Austria, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Australia, Lapland, Iran and Mauritius.



	10 - 13 February 2009 ESPLANADE HOTEL FREMANTLE FREMANTLE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA