{"id":185,"date":"2024-10-16T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/tourismenu\/?p=185"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:01:02","slug":"meet-the-visiting-professor-brian-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/tourismenu\/2024\/10\/16\/meet-the-visiting-professor-brian-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Visiting Professor, Brian King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to \u201cMeet the Visiting Professor\u201d, a section dedicated to introducing to you our Visiting Professors, where you will have the opportunity to get to know them and find out how they engage with Edinburgh Napier University, and specifically with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-schools\/the-business-school\/our-research\/tourism-research-centre\">Tourism Research Centre (TRC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Professor and Head Department of Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism <a href=\"https:\/\/hmgt.tamu.edu\/people\/king-brian\/\">Brian King<\/a> talks about his career, how he started collaborating with TRC, what he loves about being a Visiting Professor with ENU. Despite the many places he has lived and worked, he still considers Auld Reekie (Edinburgh) as his \u201chometown\u201d and has strong relationships with several TRC members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am currently professor and head of the Department of Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism at Texas A&amp;M University (TAMU), USA. It has been my pleasure to engage with Edinburgh Napier University as a Visiting Professor through my previous professorships at Victoria University (Australia) and then at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I joined TAMU in 2022 and have sought to build the relationship with Napier. I grew up in Edinburgh and though I completed my Honors and MSc degrees at Aberdeen and Strathclyde Universities respectively and carry an Australian passport, I still consider <strong><em>Auld Reekie<\/em><\/strong> (Edinburgh) as my \u201chometown\u201d. My research interests are cultural tourism and the visitor economy. Given my cultural interests, I love Napier\u2019s focus on festivals and events. Through the various full-time academic positions that I have held at Universities in Scotland, Australia, Fiji, Hong Kong and now the US, cultural aspects have been ever present. This can be through language, shared heritage, cuisine, festivals and \/or sense of place. I have enjoyed how these characteristics blend with place related factors and have researched and written about concepts such as <em>experiencescapes, festivalscapes<\/em> and even <em>smellscapes<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>I had known and\/or worked with several Napier professors over the years &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/people\/anna-leask\">Anna Leask<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/people\/paul-barron\">Paul Baron<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/people\/jane-aliknight\">Jane Ali-Knight<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/people\/martin-robertson\">Martin Robertson<\/a> to name a few and was a professor in Melbourne Australia as well as being a board member of Destination Melbourne. My appointment as Visiting Professor helped us strengthen the connection between tourism agencies in Melbourne and Edinburgh and I enjoyed teaching on the destination leaders program in both cities.\u00a0 My role as Visiting Professor has involved visiting the Craiglockhart campus (sometimes virtually) to give presentations and to meet with graduate students, industry partners and research collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>During recent months colleagues and I worked on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Napier and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamu.edu\/\">Texas A&amp;M University<\/a> to foster opportunities for student and faculty exchange which has now been ratified. I enjoyed meeting with Napier students when they travelled to our campus to visit in Spring and was delighted that my colleague Dr Sullins led a group of our TAMU students to Napier for study abroad. I cherish the Napier tourism faculty as great friends and associates. A particular highlight of my visiting professorship occurred when I was working in Hong Kong. Principal Prof Andrea Nolan led a Napier delegation to Hong Kong and hosted a <em>ceilidh <\/em>for students, graduates and supporters. Doing \u201cstrip the willow\u201d and wearing a kilt in Hong Kong was certainly a special occasion for me as a then a resident of the territory. And of course, lots of valuable networking occurred worked out the logistics of Scottish dancing!<\/p>\n<p>But where to start? As a professor of tourism, I love to connect people and places and it\u2019s a joy to have an ongoing connection with my hometown and country. The tourism professors at Napier are a great group, and it has also been encouraging to witness the recruitment of junior faculty stars. I appreciate the level of engagement with the industry by the Tourism Research Centre and particularly with the festivals community. Napier also has a very international commitment which welcomes students and faculty from across the globe. I have appreciated my collaborations with Napier wherever in the world I have been based. I really enjoyed interacting with the Napier students during their time in College Station Texas. Our campus here is huge with more than 76,000 students in College Station alone and there are nine other campuses across our network. The football stadium (which I can see from my office) holds 105,000 spectators (even more for a recent music event)&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to \u201cMeet the Visiting Professor\u201d, a section dedicated to introducing to you our Visiting Professors, where you will have the opportunity to get to know them and find out how they engage with Edinburgh Napier University, and specifically with the Tourism Research Centre (TRC). 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