Associate Professor Stephen Craig-Smith
Head of School of Tourism, The University of Queensland
Inaugural and immediate past Chair of THE-ICE Assessment Panel, A/Professor Stephen Craig-Smith has been Head of the School of Tourism of The University of Queensland from 1988 until 2000 and again since mid-2010. He is also Chair of Teaching and Learning. He is a member of the Queensland Ministerial Advisory Panel to the Minister of Education, a member of the Hong Kong Accreditation Council. He was created an inaugural fellow of CAUTHE for services to tourism education in 2008.
A/Professor Craig-Smith is closely involved with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific-Asia Pacific Education and Training Institutions in Tourism (UNESCAP-APETIT) network and has been made an Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Tourism. He has also been awarded the status of Visiting Professor with the University of Victoria, British Columbia and the University of Nottingham in the UK, a Visiting Academic Fellow with the School of Business and Marketing, Curtin University and an inaugural Fellow of CAUTHE.
A/Professor Craig-Smith is currently a member and project Chair of Queensland Education Accreditation Council for Hospitality and Tourism and is the Director-General’s nominee on the Wine Industry Development Industry Development Committee with special Committee reference to wine tourism. He has also worked extensively in the Pacific Islands with funding from island governments and United Nations ESCAP.
His research interests revolve around many aspects of tourism higher education:
- Tourism education especially at undergraduate level
- Tourism development programs in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China (Academic advisor)
- Urban tourism - the use of tourism for economic regeneration
- Island tourism - Pacific and Caribbean island tourism
A/Professor Craig-Smith has conducted numerous consultancy works such as environmental management and in particular coastal environmental management in the U.K., Caribbean and Australia, curriculum development at secondary school level with the Queensland State Government and at university level in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China etc.