On behalf of the Executive Committee of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (The Academy), I am pleased to announce the results of 2024 election of new Fellows.

Please welcome and congratulate:

Simon Darcy, University of Technology Sydney

Professor Simon Darcy believes passionately in the rights of all people to fully participate in community life. A Professor of social inclusion in the Management Department at UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, he specialises in developing inclusive organisational approaches for people with disability. Simon’s work has spanned tourism, the visitor economy, sport management, events, volunteers, transport, employment, entrepreneurship, the built environment and disability services. His body of work surrounding accessible tourism gained national and international recognition through State and Commonwealth government, the UNWTO and the World Leisure Organisation. The impact of this work continues right through to 2024 where he worked with Tourism Research Australia on the disability data modules for the National Visitor Survey. Simon has published over 300 journal articles, research reports, chapters and books.

David Fennell, Brock University

David Fennell is Professor at the Department of Geography & Tourism Studies, Brock University. His main focus of research is on tourism ethics and ecotourism. He has published widely in these areas, including books on Ecotourism (5th edition), Tourism Ethics (2nd edition), Codes of Ethics in Tourism, Tourism and Animal Ethics (2nd edition), and Sustainable Tourism: Principles, Contexts, and Practices. A major thrust of his research involves the use of theory from other disciplines to gain traction on tourism’s most persistent problems. Fennell is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ecotourism, is the editor of a Routledge book series on tourism ethics, and is the editor of two Routledge Handbooks: Tourism and the environment, and Ecotourism.

Adele Ladkin, Bournemouth University Business School

Dr Adele Ladkin is Professor of Tourism Employment and Deputy Director of the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR), Bournemouth University Business School. Her research expertise is tourism and hospitality workforce and employment, specifically labour mobility, fair work, employee wellbeing and digital transformations of work. She is an Associate Editor for the leading tourism journal, Annals of Tourism Research and was joint Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Tourism Research from 2003-2009 and the European Regional Editor for the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 2020-2023. She has extensive experience in developing tourism and hospitality international postgraduate studies, contributing to global capacity building in education. She collaborates with the UNWTO in education and human capital development for tourism and is motivated to undertake research to inform policy to drive positive change for employees and organisations.

Janne Liburd, University of Southern Denmark

Dr. Janne Liburd is Professor of Tourism and Sustainable Development at University of Southern Denmark. She is an expert in sustainable and regenerative tourism design, collaboration, tourism higher education, open innovation and protected area management. Her background is in social anthropology. She has written more than 130 peer reviewed scientific articles, five books and numerous book chapters bridging the fields of sustainable tourism development, natural protected areas and tourism higher education. She has received high quality external research grants in her area and was the first female National Park Chair in Denmark for 8 years.

Robin Nunkoo, University of Mauritius

Robin Nunkoo is a Professor in Sustainable Tourism and Research Methods at the University of Mauritius where he also heads the International Center for Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality which he founded in 2015. He holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Robin holds Visiting Professorship positions at Griffith University, Australia, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Taylors University, Malaysia, and Kyung Hee University, South Korea. His primary areas of expertise include Sustainable tourism, sociology of knowledge, research methodology, and theory and theorization. Robin has published widely in leading journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism and other outlets. Robin has been listed as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate for the past years and appears as a leading tourism researcher in various rankings. He is currently the Managing Editor of Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management and an editorial board member of several leading journals. Robin is the Chairperson of the National Committee on Research Strategy at the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Science, and Research in Mauritius."

James Petrick, Texas A&M University

Professor Jim Petrick is a Research Fellow and the Associate Department Head for Research in the Department of Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism at Texas A&M University. His current research focuses on the psychophysiological, relationship and educative benefits travel has on individuals and how destinations can utilize these benefits to improve their services. Much of his earlier research applied marketing and psychology principles in the context of tourism services to assist tourism entities in better marketing to their clientele. He has been awarded more than $3 million in research grants to support his research agenda and has presented his research around the globe. Prior to his work at Texas A&M he spent six years working onboard cruise ships for both Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Viking Line, working in positions from Youth Coordinator to Cruise Director.

Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo

Dr. Scott is a Professor and Research Chair in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo (Canada) and a Research Fellow at Canadian University Dubai. In 2023 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Daniel has worked extensively on sustainable tourism, with a focus on the transition to a low carbon tourism economy and adaptation to the complex impacts of a changing climate. He has advised and led projects for a wide range of tourism organizations around the world, including the United Nations World Tourism Organization, World Travel and Tourism Council, European Tourism Commission, and Caribbean Tourism Organization, as well as the World Bank, International Olympic Committee, OECD, US Senate, and the Inter-American Development Bank. Over the last two decades he has also contributed tourism perspectives to multiple United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports.

The International Academy for the Study of Tourism (The Academy) was established to further the scholarly research and professional investigation of tourism. The Academy membership consists of highly accomplished tourism researchers from throughout the world with many disciplinary backgrounds. Fellows of the Academy are elected to membership on the basis of their scholarly achievements and contributions to our understanding of tourism.

Prof. Muzzo Uysal
President of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (The Academy)

Provost Professor

Carney Family Endowed Professor
Dept. of Hospitality & Tourism Management

Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts, Amherst