Dr. Tazim Jamal Associate Professor Dept. of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences TAMU 2261 Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-2261

Specialty:

Community-based destination management and tourism planning; tourism-environment conflict resolution and multi-stakeholder collaboration processes involving environmental, business, government, scientific and community interest; socio-cultural and heritage impacts.

 

Education:

Ph.D. (Management), The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1997)

Certificate in Conflict Resolution, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada (1997-8)

M.B.A., The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. (1991)

B.Sc. (Geology), The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. (1984)

B.A. (French), The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (1983)

Canadian Securities Certificate in securities trading (equities and futures).

 

Other Professional Experience:

Editorial board member (Journal of Sustainable Tourism; Imperium)
Steering committee member of Program for Dispute and Conflict Resolution, Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy, George Bush School.of Government and Public Service, College Station, TX
Faculty Fellow of the Historic Resources Imaging Laboratory (participants are involved in historic preservation and related activities).Small business entrepreneurship, management and ownership
Securities brokerage and public-market financing for small enterprises.
Bilateral and small group facilitation.

 

Research Areas:

Stakeholder participation in multi-party consensus processes; (a) experience and representation of community and natural environment in park-based and community processes for addressing tourism growth and conflict; (b) the role and expertise of mediators in such multi-party collaborations; (c) the role and involvement of science in processes involving community interest groups and residents; and (d) the development of a common knowledge base, include databases of tourism-related resource inventories (including attractions, services, facilities, etc.) and other relevant information.

 

Community and resident involvement in tourism planning and management

 

Visioning and strategic planning for destination management; monitoring strategies and structures; cultural and heritage tourism impacts and planning..

Publications (sample):

Jamal, T., Stein, S. and Harper, T. 2002. Beyond Labels: Pragmatic Planning in Multi-Stakeholder Tourism-Environmental Conflicts. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 22, 2: 164-177.

Jamal, T. and Hollinshead, K.  2001.  "Tourism and the Forbidden Zone: The Underserved Power of Qualitative Inquiry."  Tourism Management, 22: 63-82

Jamal, T. and Hill, S 2002. The home and the world;(post)touristic spaces of (in)authenticity? In: Dann, G (ed.) The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World. CAB International, Wallingford (Oxon), Chapter 5.

Jamal, T.  2000.  The Social Responsibilities of Environmental Groups in Contested Destinations. Tourism Recreation Research.  24, 2: 7-17.

Jamal, T. and Getz, D.  1999.  Community-based roundtables for tourism-related conflicts: the dialectics of consensus and process structures.  Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 3-4: 290-313.

Eyre, M. and Jamal, T.  1998.  'Addressing stakeholder conflicts in a mountain park' In Parks & Recreation Magazine, official publication of the National Recreation and Park Association.  See Special Issue on Tourism, Sept. 1998.

Echtner, C. and Jamal, T. 1998. The Disciplinary Dilemmas of Tourism Studies. Annals of Tourism Research, 24, 4:868-883.

Jamal, T. and Getz, D. 1997. "‘Visioning’ for Sustainable Tourism Development: Community-based Collaborations." In Quality Management in Urban Tourism. Editor: Dr. P. Murphy, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.: Chichester, U.K.

Jamal, T. and Getz, D. 1996. Does Strategic Planning Pay? Lessons for Destinations from Corporate Planning Experience. Progress in Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2, 1: 59-78.

Jamal, Tazim. Fall 1996. Contributing author to the Sustainable Tourism Workbook, prepared by the Centre for Environmental Design Research and Outreach, The Faculty of Environmental Design, The University of Calgary. Project coordinator: Dr. Walter Jamieson. My primary contribution to the workbook is the chapters on "Getting the Community Ready", "Planning for Tourism", and "How well is the community doing"[re. monitoring and adjusting].

Jamal, T. and Getz, D. 1995. Collaboration Theory and Community Tourism Planning. Annals of Tourism Research, 22, 1: 186-204.

Getz, D. and Jamal, T. 1994. The Environment-Community Symbiosis: a Case for Collaborative Tourism Planning. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2, 3: 152-173.

Recently Taught Courses:

RPTS 426: Tourism Impacts
RPTS 626: Social Impacts of Tourism
RPTS 646: Heritage Tourism

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