Greg Ringer

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Dr Greg Ringer

Associate Professor
Faculty of Tourism & Hotel Management
Royal Roads University
2005 Sooke Rd
Victoria, BC V9B 5Y2, Canada

Email: Greg.Ringer@RoyalRoads.ca

 

Adjunct Instructor, Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Woman & Gender Studies, University of Oregon
Adjunct Assistant Professor, International Studies Program, University of Oregon
Visiting Professor, Waseda Transnational Program (2001-2002), Waseda University, Japan
Visiting Professor, Saigon Tourist School of Hotel and Tourism Management, Vietnam
Visiting Professor, Faculties of Tourism and International Development, Van Lang University, Vietnam
Visiting Professor, Tourism Studies, Waiariki Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Visiting Professor, Tourism & Hospitality Program, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

 

Qualifications
Ph.D. (Geography), University of Oregon (1993)
M.S. (Environmental Studies), University of Oregon (1989)
B.A. (Political Science), University of Central Florida (1973)

Summary of Interests
Consultant worldwide on ecotourism (environmental impact assessments, GIS and remote sensing, facility & site design, marketing appraisals, guide training, historic/cultural interpretation, environmental education and curriculum development).

 

Research Interests

Focus on sustainable tourism and indigenous community development in protected areas.

Research grants include a Fulbright lecture/research award in ecotourism and forestry in Uganda (1997-98)
Curriculum Development on Cambodia and Thailand through the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program (1999)
Fulbright Specialist Grants in Ecotourism Training & Marketing in the Caribbean (2001) and Armenia (2002).

Invited keynote speaker at international tourism conferences, including:
Educational Travel Conference (2002);
The 6th Greater Mekong Subregional Conference, Asian Development Bank/Pacific-Asia Travel Association, K'unming, China (2001);
"Healing Waters" Conference, New Zealand, July 2000, and
"Interconnected Worlds: Southeast Asian Tourism in the 21st
Century," co-sponsored by the Singapore Tourism Board and the National University of Singapore, September 1999.
Research funded, in part, with travel and executive grants from the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS, UO) and the Center for Asian & Pacific Studies (CAPS, UO).

Courses and Seminars
Biodiversity and Ecotourism Management in Sub-Saharan Africa;
Physical Geography;
Human Geography;
Human Geography Lab; Cartography, advanced Cartography;
Cultural Landscapes;
Sustainable Ecotourism;
Perspectives of Tourism;
Sustainability and Ecotourism;
Ethnicity,
Ecology and Ecotourism in South-East Asia; Tourism and Place;
Pacific Challenges;
Development Issues in Equatorial Africa; International Tourism;
Sustainable Communities and Ecotourism Development;
Sustainable Ecotourism Planning and Design; Tourism, Gender and Place.