Andrew JonesAndrew is currently a resident professor and Head of Department for the Institute for Tourism Travel and Culture at The University of Malta. He has also held positions at The University of Wales, International Faculty Cardiff, Swansea Business Schol and the University of Brunei. In his early career he qualified in Urban and Regional Planning and Economic Development and initially worked within these fields both in the public and private sectors before taking up a position at the University of Wales where he taught planning , economic regeneration, environmental management and tourism development. He has professional experience in planning, environmental management and tourism management at international, regional and local levels and has been an enthusiastic contributor to the academic tourism community within the UK and internationally for over thirty years. In this respect he has been an active practitioner, researcher and teacher since 1981. In his positions with both the University of Wales and University of Malta he has been involved in the University's collaborative programmes and partnerships in Greece, China, and India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Japan, Germany and the UK. He completed his Ph.D. on research investigating the relationship and tensions between cultural regeneration, the environment and the development of niche markets for tourism. Research associated with his academic experience over the last twenty years and the consequent research out puts have allowed him to develop a research profile based upon strategic/environmental planning, regeneration, economic and regional development, sustainable planning policy and the relationship between these dynamic processes and tourism development and in turn the development of sustainable/cultural (tourism) niche markets. As such he has carried out numerous consultancy projects relating to economic regeneration, tourism planning, cultural regeneration and sustainability and has published a number of industry and academic articles, reports and conference papers. To this end he has travelled widely and has contributed to international conferences in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia and spent two years as a visiting research fellow at the University of Brunei. Read More Read Less