Staff profiles
Gill Pomfret
Senior lecturer, PgDip, PGCFHE, BSc (Hons)
Phone 0114 225 2958
E-mail g.c.pomfret@shu.ac.uk
Main subject area
Tourism management
Profile
Gill gained a first degree in psychology and then spent several years teaching in Spain, Portugal, Ecuador and the UK. She completed a PgDip in Tourism Management (with Distinction) and went on to be a marketing executive for a travel wholesale company. Gill teaches on both the undergraduate and postgraduate courses and she is course leader for the postgraduate degrees in tourism management, and tourism and hospitality management. She has been involved in curriculum development projects, including writing a fieldwork guide to Catalonia, Spain to support the undergraduate field study module.
She has published research papers and a book on adventure tourists. Her current work in this field examines the motives, personalities, lifestyles and perceptions of mountaineer tourists, and it also explores their experiences during their mountaineering activities. She carried out fieldwork in the French Alps on these tourists during 2007 and is currently writing up research papers on this topic. During 2006 she undertook fieldwork on tourism planning and coordination in the Lake District, UK.
Teaching experience
- lecturing at Salford University
- lecturing at the Baltic Business School, Kalmar, Sweden
Research interests
- adventure tourism
- mountaineer adventure tourists
- experiences of volunteer tourists
Teaching interests
- tourist behaviour
- tourism and development studies
- adventure tourism
- contemporary issues in international tourism
External examining
BA (Hons) Travel and Tourism Management and BA (Hons) Tourism at University of Derby at Buxton
Research outputs and projects
Bramwell, B. and Pomfret, G. (2007) Planning for Lake and Lake Shore Tourism: Complexity, Coordination and Adaptation. Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research 18 (1): 43-66.
Foster (Palmer), N., Pomfret, G., Smith, A. and Whalley, P. (2004) Barcelona and Catalonia. A Fieldwork Guide. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University
Harlow, S. and Pomfret, G. (2007) Evolving Environmental Tourism Experiences in Zambia. Journal of Ecotourism 6 (3): 184-209.
Pomfret, G. (forthcoming) Package Mountaineer Tourists Holidaying in the French Alps: an Evaluation of Key Influences Encouraging their Participation. Tourism Management.
Pomfret, G. (2006) Mountaineering Adventure Tourists: A Conceptual Framework for Research. Tourism Management 27(1): 113-123
Swarbrooke, J., Beard, C., Leckie, S. and Pomfret, G. (Eds) (2003) Adventure Tourism: The New Frontier. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann
Conference attending
18th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research - Esbjerg, 22-25 October 2009. Presenting the aforementioned (under review) paper.
