Staff profiles
Dr Philip Goulding
Senior lecturer in tourism management, PhD, FHEA, MTS, ATTT
E-mail p.goulding@shu.ac.uk
Main subject areas
Tourism management
Profile
Philip started his working life with American Express in retail and business travel sales, before moving to Iran to work as a business development and training officer in a travel and inbound tourist agency. After surviving the revolution and a return to the UK, he graduated in International Relations from Birmingham University and an MSc in Tourism at the Scottish Hotel School.
First lecturing in travel and tourism at the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, Philip moved to Napier University, where he was instrumental in introducing, developing and managing tourism degree programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in various learning delivery modes. He has delivered tourism programmes in Switzerland (Weggis) and guest lectured in Spain (Jerez). In recent years he has returned to Iran several times to teach tourism programmes.
He has undertaken consultancy work for the former Wales and Scottish Tourist Boards, for Scottish Enterprise and various Area Tourist Boards, including local economic development studies, visitor attractions and tourist information centre management. Philip recently completed his PhD, an ethnographic study of the temporal trading motivations and behaviours of small tourism businesses in Scotland.
He has published numerous book chapters and presented conference papers, particularly in relation to seasonality, lifestyle tourism business, visitor attractions and public policy. Philip has supervised a PhD (Military Museums) to successful completion and has external examining experience (London Institute, BA Hons International Tourism, 1998-2001).
Main research interests
- seasonality and temporality in tourism
- lifestyle tourism businesses
- small tourism businesses in peripheral, marginal areas
- the role of visitor attractions in destination viability
- institutional arrangements for tourism development .
Examples of publications
Goulding, P. (2007- forthcoming) 'Time to Trade? Perspectives of Temporality in the Commercial Home Enterprise', in Lynch, P., Tucker, H. and McIntosh, A. (eds.) International Perspectives on the Commercial Home, Routledge, London.
Goulding, P. (2006). '112 Reasons to Trade Seasonally: A Motivation and Influence Paradigm of Scottish Seasonal Tourism Businesses', Proceedings of The Third Graduate Research in Tourism Conference, 25-28 May, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University/Anatolia: an International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, pp100-120.
Goulding, P. (2005). 'Trading Behaviour and Demographics of Scottish Seasonal Tourism Businesses: Preliminary Research Findings'. Paper and poster presented at the 2nd International Hospitality and Tourism Virtual Research Conference (IHTVC), 18-25 April. Universities of Strathclyde, Purdue (USA), Victoria (Australia) and Hong Kong Polytechnic
Goulding, P., Baum, T. and Morrison, A., (2004) 'Seasonal Trading and Lifestyle Motivation: Experiences of Small Tourism Businesses in Scotland', Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism (5) 2/3/4, pp209-238.
Goulding, P. (2004). 'Researching Seasonal Trading in Small Scottish Tourism Businesses: reconciling the irreconcilable?' Tourism: the State of the Art II Conference, 27-30 June 2004, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Goulding, P. (2003). Seasonality: The perennial challenge for visitor attractions, in Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions, Fyall, A., Garrod, B. and Leask, A. (eds.), Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, Ch9, pp140-158.
