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Don Getz is currently Professor in the School of Tourism, University of Queensland, and also Professor in the Haskayne School of Business at University of Calgary, Canada. He is an ongoing Visiting Professor at the Centre for Tourism University of Gothenburg, in Sweden.
Professor Getz conducted his advanced education at the University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Urban and Regional Planning, 1971), Carleton University (Master of Arts, Geography, 1975) and the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland (PhD in Social Sciences - Geography, 1981).
Professor Getz teaches, conducts research, writes and consults in the field of tourism and event management. He has developed an international reputation as a leading scholar and proponent of event studies. Related areas of expertise include destination and resort management and marketing, family business and entrepreneurship, rural tourism, impact assessment, consumer research and special-interest travel.
Don co-founded, and was Editor-in-Chief of Festival Management and Event Tourism: An International Journal, re-named to Event Management as of 2000. He is on the editorial board of many international tourism journals including Tourism Management and Journal of Travel Research.
Dr. Getz is a Distinguished Fellow in the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.
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