He is the founder of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, the founder and editor of the Routledge published Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change and the Channel View book series on Tourism and Cultural Change now with over thirty titles. He is on the Editorial Boards of several journals including: Mobilities, Levant and the Scandinavian Journal of Tourism. He was pleased to be invited to edit the SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (with Tazim Jamal). He has worked with UNESCO to produce a major report on Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development and was commissioned to write on tourism and representation for the 2009 UNESCO World Diversity Report. He has worked on research and projects in over 30 countries. He has initiated and directed over 20 international conferences as a way of setting new agendas in research and as a way of developing productive partnerships with academics working in interesting fields and engaging with a wide range of international heritage and cultural institutions.He seeks to work with researchers from a wide variety of disciplines and cultural backgrounds in order to produce innovative and imaginative ways to understand and to translate the inter-relationships between heritage, tourism and culture. For nearly twenty five years, his work has focused upon the inter-relationships between tourism, heritage and culture. Understanding tourism, and ourselves and others as tourists, provides us with an important conceptual lens through which we can interrogate heritage and other dimensions and expressions of culture. His work is international and interdisciplinary. He works at the boundaries of social anthropology, cultural studies, geography and history.
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