Associates

Stephen Page

Stephen Page is a sustainable tourism expert. He is currently a Senior Professor in Sustainable Tourism Management at London Metropolitan University, having previously held Professorial posts at the University of Stirling, Scotland as the Scottish Enterprise Professor of Tourism Management and at Massey University, New Zealand. He is also an Honorary Professor of the University of Wales. Stephen has worked as a Tourism consultant alongside his academic work for over 20 years.

Stephen has acted as an advisor to VisitScotland and developed their crisis management plans to assist in preparing for Avian Flu and Swine Flu. He has worked with numerous public and private sector organisations on high profile projects over the last 20 years ranging from the South East England Tourist Board and Kent County Council on the Channel Tunnel and tourism, Harrahs Sky Tower and Casino in Auckland, New Zealand to Highlands and Island Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise and VisitScotland on developing the model for the launch of Tourism Intelligence Scotland in 2009. He has also advised government agencies in New Zealand on the regulation of the adventure tourism sector.

His broad based research and training (including over 30 books on seminal areas of research in Tourism) along with studies for Mintel and other organisations has led to numerous projects and collaborative work with transnational organisations such as the UNWTO.

Most recently he was involved in the re-branding and remodelling of VisitScotland's Visitor Information Network as well as undertaking scenario planning projects for VisitScotland on accommodation, transport and other subjects. He was also involved in visitor modelling work for Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park using GIS to feed into its National Park Plan to assist with the development of sustainable tourism and leisure activity.

Stephen has a very broad based set of skills in research, being able to easily interface with clients and to see straight to the heart of the issue and to offer practical, realistic and easy to understand research solutions. He has over 20 years of consultancy experience in the field of tourism and leisure, being on the cutting edge of research knowledge and understands how this can add value to the solution of research problems. He has worked in the higher education sector since the late 1980s in a research leadership role and is also co-editor of the top tourism journal - Tourism Management.

Stephen holds a First Class BA(Hons) in Human Geography (1984) and a PhD in Geography (1988). He is author of 33 books and over 100 scientific publications and reports.

Key areas of expertise

Green & Environmental Matters / Sustainability; Strategy and Action Planning; Destination Marketing; Business Planning; Restructuring of Tourism Organisation; Market Research; Visitor Services; EU & Tourism; Arts & Heritage and other areas such as Crisis Management and continuity planning; Transport & Tourism; Health & Safety / Adventure Tourism and Regeneration Tourism (urban and rural).