Professor Graham Brown

Professor Graham Brown is Professor of Tourism Management and is a Founding Member and Director of the Centre of Tourism and Leisure Management at the University of South Australia Business School. He has an international reputation in tourism and works closely with tourism organisations both nationally and internationally.

Professor Brown gained Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) with First Class Honours in Geography and Sociology from Plymouth University in England, and a Master of Philosophy in Tourism Planning from the University of Northumbria, which involved working with the Northumbrian Water Authority, and planning recreation facilities at Kielder Water. His PhD in Recreation and Resource Development from Texas A and M University focused on Services Marketing with his research on the subject of Tourism and Place Identity. Professor Brown has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Waterloo, Victoria and Calgary in Canada, and was the Network Coordinator for the CRC for Sustainable Tourism for South Australia until December 2006.

Prior to coming to Australia, Professor Brown was actively involved with establishing the first tourism degree in England. Since coming to Australia, he has been a Ministerial Appointee to the Cape Byron Trust between 1995 and 2000, and was a member of the NSW government’s Tourism Olympic Forum from 1996-2000. He has conducted research examining the effectiveness of corporate hospitality programs offered by Olympic sponsors, and presented these findings to organisations such as Visa International, the International Olympic Committee and the World Trade Organization.

Professor Brown has published over 50 book chapters and journal articles, and has co-authored the book Tourism Marketing: an Asia Pacific Perspective (2008). He serves on the Editorial Boards of leading sport and tourism journals and has acted as the Regional Director (Asia Pacific) for the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. Professor Brown lectures at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and, in recent years, doctoral scholars he has supervised have won national and international awards for the quality of their research.

Member of CAUTHE

Associate of the Australian Centre of Olympic Studies

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University

• Master of Philosophy Newcastle University

• Bachelor of Science First Class Honours Plymouth Polytechnic

Work history

Professor of Tourism Management, University of South Australia  2002–present

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Southern Cross University  1990–2002

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Bournemouth  1985–1989

Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M Univeristy  1983–1985

Research Assistant, Northumbria University  1981–1983