Dr. Alan Fyall is Associate Dean Academic Affairs and Visit Orlando Endowed Chair of Tourism Marketing at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida. Dr. Fyall is Founding Editor of the Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, an elected Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, where he currently serves as Second-Vice-President, and is a former Board Member of the Bournemouth Tourism Management Board (DMO). He has also conducted numerous tourism destination development and management research projects for clients in the UK, European Union, Africa, the Caribbean, USA, and Southeast Asia. Clients include the ESRC (UK), Grant Thornton, Ernst & Young, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Malaysian Government, the Supreme Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (Saudi Arabia), World Travel & Tourism Council and Ocean Panel.

His current research interests relate to tourism sustainability and resilience with a specific focus on the impacts of tourism on resident communities of tourist destinations. Dr. Fyall has made a sustained impact on these fields as evidenced recently by his co-lead author role in the report Opportunities for Transforming Coastal and Marine Tourism: Towards Sustainability, Regeneration and Resilience, commissioned by the Ocean Panel. To date, Alan has published 93 peer-reviewed journal articles, 27 books, 57 book chapters, and 80 conference papers, editorials, and professional journal publications. His books include many leading textbook publications including Marketing for Tourism & Hospitality: Collaboration, Technology and Experiences (Abingdon, Routledge), Tourism Principles & Practice (Sixth Edition) (Harlow, Pearson Education) and Tourism Marketing: A Collaborative Approach (Clevedon, Channel View Publications). Alan is also the Founding Editor of Elsevier’s Journal of Destination Marketing & Management (Impact Factor of 7.158 and CiteScore of 11.2) and sits on the editorial boards of many leading journals. Finally, Dr. Fyall has supervised over 26 Ph.D. students through to completion (12 as Chair) and served as external examiner for 44 Ph.D. dissertations in the UK, India, France, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, as has he authored over two hundred published articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings.