Title: The Future of Tourism Studies
Speaker: Professor Jafar Jafari(University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA)
Time: Saturday, May 27, 2017, 9:00-11:00AM
Venue: Room 202, South Wing, B10 Building, University Town Campus
Abstract: Jafar Jafari , a cultural anthropologist (PhD, University of Minnesota, USA), with BA (English, University of Isfahan, Iran) and BS and MS (hotel and tourism management, Cornell University, USA), he is the recipient of the 2005 UNWTO Ulysses Prize and of Honorary Doctorate (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain), Visiting Professor of this and the Universitat do Algarve (Portugal) and professor emeritus of University of Wisconsin-Stout (USA). Jafari@uwstout.edu
He is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science Series; Co-editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice; Co-editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET; Founding President, International Academy for the Study of Tourism; and Founding President, Tourism Intelligence Forum.
