Managing Visitor Attractions

Dr Bruce Prideaux is a Professor of Tourism Management and Marketing, at James Cook University, Australia. He is Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Transport and Book Review Editor for Australian Journal of Hospitality Management. He has contributed to numerous edited texts, including our forthcoming text, Managing Visitor Attractions (eds Fyall et al). After a career starting with Procter & Gamble, followed by the British Tourist Authority and the University of Surrey, Victor Middleton has been an independent management consultant, academic and author since 1984. He has a wide portfolio of international interests in travel and tourism, in marketing, research and sustainability. Over the years he has worked in many parts of the world and holds appointments as Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Central Lancashire. He is a founder fellow (1977) and former chairman of the UK Tourism Society. A well known author, Victor Middleton has written several books and over one hundred articles and reports. Alan is Reader in Tourism Management in the International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research, and Head of Research for the School of Services Management at Bournemouth University, UK. Alan has published widely with his areas of expertise spanning the management of attractions, heritage tourism and destination management. Alan has co-edited Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions (2003) published by Butterworth Heinemann, while he has co-authored Tourism Marketing: A Collaborative Approach (2005) and the third edition of Tourism Principles and Practice (2005) published by Channel View and Prentice Hall respectively. Alan has recently completed a number of projects for external clients in the South West of England exploring suitable structures for emerging Destination Management Organisations and has conducted work in the Caribbean and Southern Africa for the Commonwealth Secretariat. Anna is Senior Lecturer in Tourism at Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. Her teaching and research interests combine and lie principally in the areas of heritage visitor attraction management, visitor attraction pricing and general conference management. She has also co-edited Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions (2003) with Alan Fyall and Brian Garrod and Heritage Visitor Attractions: An Operations Management Perspective (1999) with Ian Yeoman. Anna has presented and published extensively in the field of visitor attraction management in both UK and international contexts. She is currently leading research in the School of Marketing & Tourism and the Centre for Festival and Event Management at Napier University.