Prof. Xie Feifan is going to take up his post as Dean of Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, MUST on September 1st, 2015. The university always attaches equal importance to teaching and research, and makes great effort to promote excellence in both. It is hoped that with his rich experience in tourism management, teaching and research, the new dean may work together with his team to cultivate more talents of tourism and hospitality management for Macau.
Prof. Xie received his bachelor’s degree in Economics in Tourism Administration from East China Normal University in 1995, master’s degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies from University of Waterloo, Canada in 1998, and doctoral degree in Planning from University of Waterloo, Canada in 2001.
Prof. Xie used to be Chair of Sport Management, Recreation and Tourism Division and School Director of Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA. He was a lecturer of Department of Geography at University of Toronto in 2000. He also taught tourism and hospitality courses at Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a visiting professor. He has been a teacher for more than 10 years, during which he has been invited to visit or deliver speeches at more than 10 international universities, including National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University, University of Macau, University of Hamburg and Auckland University of Technology.
Prof. Xie does research on cultural heritage tourism, aboriginal tourism, tourism planning, the morphology of tourism, and so on. He worked many times with the state governments in the US on prediction of various kinds of tourism economics and assessment of economic effect. From 2010 to 2012, he received the largest grant in Ohio to assess the socioeconomic impacts of bird-watching along Lake Erie. The research was fruitful and significant. The books that he has authored include Authenticating Ethnic Tourism (2011) and Industrial Heritage Tourism (2015).
