Faculty Member, Kent Business School
Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management
About
Dr Mark Hampton FRGS is Director of CENTICA (the Centre for Tourism in Islands & Coastal Areas http://www.kent.ac.uk/KBS/applied-research/centica.html) within Kent Business School. He is the Director of Studies for the BA (Honours) in Tourism Management and teaches tourism modules on the MSc programme in the Business School. He is also supervising three research students: Wei Lee (Shirley) Chin; Jorn Fricke http://kent.academia.edu/J%C3%B6rnFricke & Caroline Walsh http://kent.academia.edu/CarolineWalsh.
His research is broadly concerned with two service industries within so-called globalisation: tourism and offshore finance and their economic development impacts. He has extensive fieldwork experience in South-East Asia but has also worked in the Caribbean and South Atlantic.
Dr Hampton has given more than 85 international conference papers, published over 40 journal articles and book chapters (including 4 papers in 'Annals of Tourism Research') and in other international journals including 'Environment & Planning A'; 'World Development'; 'Geografiska Annaler B'; 'Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography'; 'Third World Quarterly' and 'The Round Table'. He has written/edited two books published by Macmillan and is currently working on a new book on backpacker tourism and the developing world to be published by Routledge.
His most recent research project (2012) is a study funded by the World Bank: 'How can tourism promote inclusive growth in Small Island States?' http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/small-island-tourism/2012 He is working with Prof. Donna Lee (Birmingham University), Prof. John Fletcher (Bournemouth University) and Prof. Adam Blake (Bournemouth University). This project has a country visit with fieldwork in the Seychelles in spring 2012.
In 2011 he won a project funded by the British Academy (ASEASUK Research Committee on South-East Asian Studies): ‘Resilience or vulnerability? Local island community responses to environmental change and tourism’. This had fieldwork in eastern Indonesia.
Between 2008 and 2010 he led a major research project funded by the British Council (PMi2 Research Cooperation Award) 'The developmental impacts of international dive tourism in Malaysia’ http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/applied-research/centica/dive-tourism-projec
In 2007 he undertook fieldwork in South-East Asia for a pilot study on ‘Cross-border tourism: community perceptions and impacts in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.' This project was funded by the British Academy (ASEASUK Research Committee on South-East Asian Studies) http://www.kent.ac.uk/research/stories/Centicawinscross-borderresearch
During 2006-7 he worked closely with Prof. Hamzah on a major project: 'The contribution and potential of backpacker tourism in Malaysia'. This was funded by the Malaysian Ministry of Tourism and fieldwork comprised the main backpacker sites in Malaysia as well as comparative field visits to Thailand and Vietnam.
Previous research projects have been funded by the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Economic Survey of Ascension Island); and the Department For International Development (DFID) (governance & anti-corruption strategies).
Dr Hampton is currently Visiting Professor at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in 2006. He is a Founding Member of ISISA, the International Small Islands Studies Association http://www.geol.utas.edu.au/isisa/ and in 2010 was elected to the Advisory Council. He is also a member of ASEASUK, the Association of South-East Asian Studies in the UK http://aseasuk.org.uk/v2/
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