15 December
Local Date: Dec 14 2024 |
Local Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Morais is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Tourism and a Tourism Extension Specialist at North Carolina State University. He is also the lead in(ve)stigator of People-First Tourism Lab, a participatory action research collective started at NC State and now involving researchers and community development partners globally (P1tLab.ncsu.edu). Morais supports small communities and microentrepreneurs across the State of North Carolina and internationally. Morais integrates the insight and energy of an increasingly rich team of scholars in disciplines ranging from Cultural Anthropology, Humanitarian Engineering, Social Business, Community Psychology, Design, and Computer Science. His disciplinary home is Social-psychology and through this lens he investigates how tourism microentrepreneurship is developed and how it may affect host communities ability to harness economic opportunity in their own terms. |
Bruno Ferreira, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of tourism development and management at the Hainan University-Arizona State University International Tourism College (HAITC) in Haikou, Hainan Province, China. His research is centered around the intersection of tourism, entrepreneurship, and community development, looking at the psychological and environmental antecedents of tourism micro entrepreneurship among under-resourced individuals. He has worked in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia as a researcher, instructor, project manager, and consultant in community development projects leveraging the economic muscle of tourism. |
is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of NoviSystems, makers of business decision-making platforms. NoviSystems is currently focused on improving outcomes for patients and caregivers of rare diseases by providing systems to patients for enhancing quality of life, ioPharma manufacturing organizations to enhance quality systems and clinical trials, and specialist physicians to enhance their ability to serve patients. Although tourism and healthcare are different domains, the process of discovering actionable answers to difficult questions with complex data is the same. As co-founder and executive of People-First Tourism John is applying analytical decision-making to destination stewardship. |
Dr. Buzinde’s research focuses on two areas: community development through tourism and the politics of tourism representations. Her work on representations regards tourism texts as cultural repositories through which inclusion/exclusion, North/South and core/periphery can be understood. She examines texts as sites wherein entanglements of power and oppression as well depictions of agency and resistance can be unveiled. Dr. Buzinde’s work on development adopts a grassroots approach and it aims to understand the relationship, or lack thereof, between community well being and tourism development within marginalized communities. She conducts research in Tanzania, Mexico, India, Canada and the US and has published numerous articles in top-tier journals. |
While Isaiah grew up in rural Oklahoma, the seeds of curiosity for the larger world were planted in him In college, he earned a BS in Elementary Education and a Masters in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, and found opportunities for the global education of travel and cultural exchange. His experiences abroad include working in the UK, Peace Corps in the Marshall Islands, recreation work in Japan, and cultural explorations of Latin America. Such experiences have inspired him to both plan and guide relevant travel experiences for others. Besides leading history tours in the US for 20 years, he has also led trips around Europe and Latin America. Isaiah, his wife Kim and son Walker live in Asheville, NC where they enjoy being outdoors, playing music with friends, and partaking in all the local eccentricities. |
Dr. Whitney Knollenberg’s research focuses on the role of leadership in the forces that shape tourism development including planning, power, policy, and partnerships. Recently she has examined tourism advocates’ efforts to gain political influence for the industry. Whitney has also studied how leadership, and its connections to power and partnerships, can initiate and sustain successful rural tourism development. Additionally, she has explored opportunities to integrate the food and tourism systems to advance their sustainable development. Her continuing research strives to understand how tourism leaders can utilize planning, power, policy, and partnerships to support sustainable tourism development. |
Duarte B. Morais Welcome remarks | |
Bruno Ferreira Panelist | |
John Bass Panelist | |
Christine Buzinde Panelist | |
Isaiah Mosteller Panelist | |
Whitney Knollenberg Panelist | |