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THINK TANKS


UPCOMING THINK TANK: THINK TANK XV

Keynote Speakers

DR JARKKO SAARINEN

Title: Tourism, Communities and Sustainability: Balancing between Growth and Development

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Jarkko Saarinen is Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visitor Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include tourism and development, sustainability and responsibility in tourism, tourism-community relations, tourism and climate change, community-based natural resource management and wilderness studies. He is currently the Vice-President of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and Associate Editor in the Journal of Ecotourism. Previously he has been Professor of Nature-Based Tourism at the University of Lapland/Finnish Forest Research Institute and Professor of Tourism at the University of Botswana. His publications include books: Sustainable Tourism in Southern Africa (2009, co-edited with Becker, Manwa and Wilson), Tourism and Change in the Polar Regions (2010, co-edited with Hall) and Tourism and Millennium Development Goals (2013, co-edited with Rogerson and Manwa). In 2013 he received Association of American Geographer’s (AAG) Roy Wolfe Award. See: http://www.oulu.fi/maantiede/jarkko_saarinen

DR ANNA SPENCELY

Title: A decade of progress in sustainable tourism in protected areas

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Dr Anna Spenceley is a tourism consultant focusing on sustainable tourism based in South Africa.  In particular, she works in areas of high biodiversity in developing countries, through her company STAND.  Anna is Chair of the IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group, a Senior Research Fellow with the University of Johannesburg, and sits on the editorial teams of several journals including the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.  She is also the editor of the book "Responsible Tourism: Critical issues for Conservation and Development" and also co-editor of "Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation".  See www.anna.spenceley.co.uk, http://annaspenceley.wordpress.com and www.slideshare.net/AnnaSpenceley


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