Greg Ringer
Adjunct Assistant Professor, International Studies Program
Phone: (541) 346-3635
Email: gringer@uoregon.edu
Greg Ringer specializes in international tourism and sustainable community development. His recent projects in the Asia-Pacific region include ecotourism planning and design in national parks and protected areas in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Yunnan Province in southwest China, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Midway Island, and the Federated States of Micronesia. He also serves as Visiting Professor in tourism and hospitality studies at Ha Noi University of Foreign Studies, Van Lang University, and Saigontourist College of Hospitality & Tourism in Vietnam, as well as Khon Kaen University (Thailand) and Pakse Teachers Training College (Laos). In addition to this academic service, Greg was a Fulbright Visiting Professor in Serbia-Montenegro (2005-06) and East Africa in 1997-98, and co-principal investigator for a Fulbright-Hays Curriculum Development Project on Cambodia & Thailand (1999). Dr. Ringer is the editor of Destinations: Cultural Landscapes of Tourism (Routledge, 1998) and the author of several book chapters and journal articles on global tourism. His publications on the Asia-Pacific region include "Assessing pro-poor tourism principles in practice: ethnic tourism in northern Thailand and Lao PDR," Journal of Sustainable Tourism (2009); "Gender posed: the people behind the postcards," Tourism and Gender: Embodiment, Sensuality and Experience, (2007); "Cruising North to Alaska: the new 'gold rush'," Cruise Tourism: Issues, Impacts, Cases, (2006); "Geographies of tourism & place in Micronesia: the 'sleeping lady' awakes," Journal of Pacific Studies, (2004); "Convicts and conservation: Con Dao National Park, Vietnam," in Sustainable Tourism: A Global Perspective, (2002); "Tourism in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar: from terrorism to tourism?" in Tourism in South and Southeast Asia: Issues and Cases, (2000); "Sustainable ecotourism & island communities: a geographic perspective," Experiences in Management and Development, (1999); "Tourism, gender, and place in the Mekhong," Seaspan, (1999); and "Beyond the boundaries: social place in a protected space," Geojournal, (1997). Professional reports include Sustainable Community Tourism: Opportunities for Cat Ba National Park, Vietnam (2004); Con Dao National Park Ecotourism Management & Environmental Education Proposal for the Government of Vietnam (1999); and Recommendations for Recreational Development and Kirirom & Ream National Parks, South Central Cambodia (Ministry of Environment, 1997). He is currently completing a book about the challenges and opportunities of international tourism in the 21st Century for Elsevier Publications, London, and a second manuscript on the West Balkan region and the (re)creation of a "green" post-conflict identity through sustainable tourism. Dr. Ringer is an accredited Fulbright Senior Tourism Specialist and sustainable tourism advisor to the National Geographic Society, and a member of the Association of Asian Studies, the International Geographical Union Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism, The International Studies Association, The International Ecotourism Society, and the Travel and Tourism Research Association. He is also an active board member of Pacific Village International, a non-profit student exchange program in Southeast Asia, and Village Focus International, based in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Cambodia, and the Philippines.
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