Sue Beeton, Guest Editor (School of Management, La Trobe University, Australia, Email: [email protected])
Dr Sue Beeton is an Associate Professor in Tourism. She is a Board Member of the Travel and Tourism Research Association and co-convenor of the bi-annual International Tourism and Media (ITAM) conference. Dr Beeton has published extensively in the fields of film-induced tourism, environmental management and community development.
Anne Buchmann (Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia, Email: [email protected])
Anne Buchmann is lecturing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Current research interests include sustainable tourism including sustainable planning and development, and literary and film tourism.
W. Glen Croy (Tourism Research Unit, Monash University, Australia, Email: [email protected])
Dr Glen Croy is a lecturer in the Department of Management and researcher in the Tourism Research Unit at Monash University. Glen's first research passion is the destination image changing role of the media, and managing the effect. He completed his PhD on the role of film in destination decision making, and is completing further research in this area. He also co-convenes the International Tourism and Media (ITAM) conference, with Sue Beeton and Warwick Frost, since the inaugural conference in 2004. Glen's second research passion is in tertiary education. He is an award-winning teacher, and enthusiastically facilitates positive learning environments through traditional and innovative approaches. Glen has had particular success using location-based learning approaches, collaborating with local destinations to deliver authentic experiential learning environments for students and the destination.
Sine Heitmann (Leisure Industries, University of Wolverhampton, UK, Email: [email protected])
Sine Heitmann is a lecturer in Leisure Industries at the University of Wolverhampton. She has been teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate level after graduating with an MBA in Tourism. She has worked in various organisations within the private and public sector of tourism and hospitality, including destination management organisations and customer service. Current research areas include the sustainability of tourism, human resource management in leisure, the relationship between tourism and media as well as cultural tourism. These areas have been subject topics for book chapters and conference papers. Further research projects include the use of blended learning strategies when teaching undergraduate students in tourism, which received funding by the Higher Education Academy.
Angelina I. Karpovich (School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, UK, Email: [email protected])
Angelina Karpovich is a media anthropologist. She teaches Multimedia Design and Technology at Brunel University. Her research investigates the social uses of media texts and technologies, in particular those associated with film and television, the Internet, and popular music. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection on genre in Asian film and television, and a co-investigator on TOTeM: Tales of Things and Electronic Memory, a £1.4 million EPSRC-funded project focusing on objects as conduits for social memory.
Sangkyun Kim (Department of Tourism, School of Humanities, Flinders University, Australia, Email: [email protected])
Prior to joining Flinders University Tourism Group, Sangkyun Kim served as an associate lecturer in Tourism Management and Marketing at Sheffield Hallam University, whilst being a PhD researcher at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is currently finalising his PhD research on The Influence of Transnational Media Consumption on Tourists' Behaviours. Prior academic education includes a Postgraduate Certificate in Social Science Research Methods from Sheffield Hallam University, a Master of International Marketing Management from the University of Surrey, a Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Hospitality Management from Johnson and Wales University, USA, and an Associate Degree in Hospitality Administration from the Ecole Hôtelière de Glion, Switzerland.
Ariane Portegies (NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, Email: [email protected])
Ariane Portegies, MSc, approaches cultural studies in the context of tourism development with a combined background in economics (Université de Louvain, Belgium) and international law (Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden). She is now senior lecturer in Destination Development Studies at the NHTV University of Applied Sciences in Breda, the Netherlands, and research fellow at its Centre for Cross-Cultural Understanding (CCU). Innovations and developments in the NHTV's international bachelor and master's programmes—both in cross-cultural and business courses—are guided by the conviction that so many important perspectives are overlooked or not-understood, and that it takes careful and slow questioning to generate this hidden and sometimes crucial knowledge for a better and more balanced tourism development.