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Seminar

ONLINE

Professor Huong Bui: Resource management for post-disaster tourism in northeast Japan

13.00 - 14.00
25 Jan 2023

Professor Huong Bui discusses how fishing communities and seafood manufacturers have adopted tourism in Northeast Japan

The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 2011 disrupted the social-ecological systems of marine resource-dependent communities in northeast Japan. The fishing communities and seafood manufacturers in the area have adopted tourism as a pillar for post-disaster recovery through linking various elements of different industries. The seminar discusses the interactions between resources and various users under multi-layer governance and the resilience of tourism social-ecological systems more generally.

The School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management is pleased to host these open access seminars showcasing insightful and thought provoking research from renowned international scholars.

The seminars are of interest to academics, researchers and students. All are welcome.

Huong T. Bui is a professor at the College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Japan. Being an anthropologist by training from Vietnam National University (VNU), she has developed her career in tourism research with an MA and PhD from Griffith University (Australia). Huong has been an active researcher with more than sixty papers and book chapters published, including three edited volumes - Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2020), Nature-based Tourism in Asia Mountain’s Protected Area (Springer, 2021, Springer), and Vietnam Tourism: Policies and Practices (CABI, 2022). Beside her career in academia, she is a consultant for the World Bank, JICA, SNV, OECD, and tourism policy commentator to major news agencies in Southeast Asia.