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Sustainable tourism professor announced
CQUniversity appoints first Adjunct Professor in Sustainable Tourism
An international tourism expert has become the first Adjunct Professor in Sustainable Tourism at CQUniversity-Australia.
"Dr Thomas Bauer has substantial international experiences, qualifications and reputation as a leading sustainable tourism researcher, educator, investor and tourism operator", said Prof. Roger March, Dean of the School of Management and Marketing at CQUniversity-Australia.
Now ‘Adjunct Professor Bauer’, Thomas recently completed a 12 year posting as Assistant Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, contributing to that University’s leading Asian and 2nd position in world terms for scholarly publications. He has now has returned to his family business interest based at the Dundee Park Academy near Mission Beach,
He is a leading world authority on tourism in Antarctica, and since 2003 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London.
He retains strong linkages with the tertiary education sector in China as Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Tourism and as Guest Professor at the Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsah, Hunan Province, China.
As an Auditor of the International Centre for Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education Assessment Panel (http://www.the-ice.org ) Dr Bauer will be able to mentor CQUni efforts for international benchmarking and accreditation of its new tourism related degrees.
Significant new engagements by the small team of tourism academics has substantially lifted the University’s profile in the past year, including CQUniversity as the only Australian University a member of the Washington DC based Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) where one full time Senior Lecturer is a Board member.
With the endorsement of the Australian Government, CQUniversity has been accepted as an Affiliate member of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, already ‘opening doors’ to leading edge tourism research and projects of benefit to faculty, students and the growing international reputation of CQUniversity in the tourism field.
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