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 | Dr. Tazim Jamal Education |
Specialty
Community-based tourism planning, heritage tourism, cultural heritage management, sustainable tourism theory and practice; multi-stakeholder collaborations to address natural resource sustainability and tourism-related conflicts.
Research Direction
Community-based tourism planning and heritage management, Texas
My current research in Texas and Canada involves community-based tourism planning and heritage related research. I am working with smaller communities to develop information bases to assist with community-based tourism planning and heritage management (including historic preservation-heritage tourism relationships), strategic tools for cultural heritage management, community, festival and events surveys.
International tourism research
A portion of my research time is allocated to the international arena, currently in Canada and Mexico. In Canada, my research includes growth management planning research in the resort destination of Canmore, Alberta, as well as tourism impacts and growth challenges in various mountain resort communities in British Columbia. New research in Mexico includes study of tourism impacts in Cozumel and the Riviera Maya, especially as related to cultural heritage and sustainability.
Awards
Student award received in Fall 2006 from Texas American Planning Association for the “Developing a Historic Preservation-Heritage Tourism Inventory for Hearne, Texas” project.
Jamal, T., Stein, S. & Harper, T. (2005). Beyond Labels: Pragmatic Planning in Multi-Stakeholder Tourism-Environmental Conflicts. This research article received a global nomination for publication in the book Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, B. Stiftel & V. Watson (eds.), Routledge, 2005. This peer reviewed article originally appeared in Journal of Planning Education and Research, 22, 2: 164–177, 2002.
Everett, J. and Jamal, T. (2004). Multistakeholder Collaboration as Symbolic Marketplace and Pedagogic Practice. Journal of Management Inquiry, 13, 1: 57–77. This paper received the prestigious “Breaking the Frame” award at the AMA conference in Hawaii, August 2005 (and in the Las Vegas conference of the JMI in 2005).
Dr. Jamal is the co-editor of The Handbook of Tourism Studies, SAGE, 2009. She is also a team member of Sustainable Tourism Systems , a laboratory of the RPTS department. STS serves as an international center for excellence in educational training and research in sustainable development.