IGU Tourism Commission Board

Commission Board Members

• Chair: Julie Wilson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain<Email jwilson2@uoc.edu>
• Vice Chair:  Honggang Xu, Professor, School of Tourism and Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
• Communications:  Joseph Cheer, Professor, Centre for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan
• Velvet Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Geology, Sam Huston State University, USA
• Theano Terkenli, Professor, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Gustav Visser, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Edward Huijbens, Professor, Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
• Bernadette Quinn, Senior Lecturer, College of Arts and Tourism, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
• Vuk Tvrtko Opačić, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Dominic Lapointe, Professor, Département d'études urbaines et touristiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 

Honorary Board Members

• Past Chair (2004-2012): Jarkko Saarinen, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Sweden
• Past Vice Chair (2004-2012): Alan A. Lew, Professor, Department of Geography, Planning & Recreation, Northern Arizona University, USA
• Past Chair (2012-2020): Dieter Müller, Professor, Department of Geography and Economic history, University of Umeå, Sweden
• Past Chair (2001-2004 and 1999-2000  Chair of the IGUST): C. Michael Hall, Distinguished Professor, Department of Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  
• Sanette Ferreira, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Jie Zhang, Professor Department of Land Resource and Tourism, Nanjing University, China
• Dallen J. Timothy, Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, USA
• Carolin Funck, Professor, Department of Integrated Global Studies, Hiroshima University, Japan
• Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Tourism & Environmental Planning, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Alison Gill, Professor Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Maria Gravari-Barbas, Professor, Institut de Recherche et d'Études Supérieures du Tourisme, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France
• Marek Wieckowski, Associate Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Warsaw, Poland
• Tim Coles, Professor, University of Exeter Business School, UK​