IGU Tourism Commission

About the IGU Tourism Commission

The IGU Tourism Commission is part of the International Geographical Union

The commission's current full name is: Commission on the Geography of Tourism and Leisure and Global Change

In general, IGU commission names are good for 8 years, afterwhich a new commission is formed under a new name.  The current commission was created in 2008.

Commission Board Members

• Chair: Dieter Müller, Professor, Department of Geography and Economic history, University of Umeå, Sweden <Dieter Müller dieter.muller [a] geography.umu.se>
  

• Vice Chair and Website Designer: Alan A. Lew, Professor, Department of Geography, Planning & Recreation, Northern Arizona University, USA<alan.lew [a] nau.edu>
  

• Past Chair (2004-2012): Jarkko Saarinen, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Sweden
  

• Tim Coles, Professor, Business School, University if Exeter, UK
  

• Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Tourism & Environmental Planning, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  

• Sanette Ferreira, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  

• Carolin Funck, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan
  

• 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, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  

• Julie Wilson, Professor, Department of Geography, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
  

• Jie Zhang, Professor, Department of Land Resources and Tourism, Nanjing University, China