Manchester Metropolitan University

Faculty Member, Food and Tourism Management

Senior Lecturer

Hollings Faculty

About

Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, The Manchester Metropolitan University
BA MSc PhD Cert Ed (HE)
Chris is an academic tourism expert and qualified university educator, and teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate Tourism Management programmes at Hollings Faculty at Manchester Metropolitan University.  His academic interests lie firmly in the field of international tourism management.  His PhD (Sheffield Hallam University) was in the field of ‘sustainable' tourism development approaches, and he remains an active researcher in the field, presenting at international conferences and publishing in leading academic journals. 
He was appointed as an EU TEMPUS Academic Expert in 2003, assessing applications for project funding made to the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) under ERASMUS MUNDUS, TEMPUS and other programmes, and re-appointed in 2007.  An experienced external examiner, Chris presently acts in that capacity for the MSc Tourism and Environmental Management programme at the University of Bedfordshire, and has served on programme validation and revalidation panels at MMU and several other universities.  He regularly reviews manuscripts for international academic journals including Tourism Management and the Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice, for international conferences, and on behalf of major book publishers, and is a member of Editorial Review Board of the European Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research and the e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR).  He has lectured abroad for TradePartners UK, and on international university exchange programmes including the EU ERASMUS scheme.
Teaching & unit leaderships include Tourism: Global Sustainability & Governance, and International Tourism Management (both masters level); the Faculty Research Methods Programme; and Tourism & Global Sustainability (second year undergraduate). 
Prior to joining MMU Chris held a position at the University of Sunderland where he led undergraduate degree provision in Environmental Studies for several years before writing the institution's first undergraduate Tourism degree programme, and subsequently the equally successful Tourism foundation (FdA) degree there.
Consultancy
Chris formerly held the position of Managing Consultant in a UK-based consultancy firm, undertaking numerous contract commissions for public, private and not-for-profit clients in the tourism and leisure industry.  While in academia, he subsequently completed further consultancy commissions including work for British National Parks and local authorities, including under the former EU RESTORE programme, and also for European governments and private organisations.  In addition, he has experience of bidding for and managing ‘Knowledge Transfer Partnership' projects with UK tourism companies. 
Research interests   
Within the general field of international tourism management, Chris’s academic interests lie in discourses around tourism and sustainability; tourism and the environment (including National Parks issues); ‘ecotourism'; tourism policy, planning, management and performance; tourism and ethics; the ‘responsible tourist’; social tourism; tourism and destination communities; tourism and events, including cross-cultural festivals; destination image, marketing & management; and tourism futures. 
Chris is an experienced PhD supervisor, is accredited at MMU for Supervising & Examining Postgraduate Research Students and Chairing PhD Vivas, and presently serves on supervisory teams for three PhD students alongside other Hollings colleagues, including one as Director of Studies.  Proposals for postgraduate research studies in his fields of academic expertise are welcome.
Recent publications/conferences 
Stone, C. (2011) Moving on from the Beach: Mediterranean destination development for twenty-first century markets, paper presentation given at the Fourth Annual EuroMed Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business: ‘Business Research Challenges in a Turbulent Era’, October 20-21 2011, Elounda, Crete, Greece
Grant, C., Stone, C., Miller, A. & Jung, T. (2011) Geotourism Visitor Interpretation at Geosites: A Research Note, Advances in Food, Hospitality and Tourism, Vol. 1 (4)
Stone, C. & Firth, M. (2011) Transborder Tourist Behaviours and Global Citizenship, paper presentation at the first Employability & Citizenship Skills conference, 11 April 2011, Manchester Metropolitan University: Hollings Faculty.  Conference supported by the Higher Education Academy Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Network
Stone, C. & Millan, A. (2011) Empowering communities in the ‘Big Society’ - Voluntarism and event management issues at the Cheetham Hill cross-cultural festival, International Journal of Management Cases, Vol. 13 (3), pp. 242-250 (ISSN 1741-6264)
Stone, C. & Millan, A. (2011) Empowering communities in the ‘Big Society’: Voluntarism and event management issues at the Cheetham Hill cross-cultural festival.  Paper given at the 8th International Conference for Marketing, Management, Finance, Consumer Behaviour, Tourism and Retailing Research, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia - 27-29 April 2011
Stone, C. (2010) Community engagement in sustainable development for local products, given at First International Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Rural Areas: Issues and Policies from the Irpinia Region, Italy [Avellino], 17-18 June 2010, Avellino, Campania, Italy (Ente Provinciale per il Turismo Avelino/Universita Degli Studi di Salerno (EU-sponsored))
Stone, C. & Millan, A. (2010) Celebrating difference, embracing community: The cross-cultural festival, International Journal of Management Cases, Vol. 12 (2), pp. 106-114 (conference paper given at the Seventh International Conference for Consumer Behaviour, Tourism and Retailing Research, hosted by Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril, Estoril, Lisbon. 7th - 9th April 2010)
Stone, C. (2008) The British pop music festival phenomenon – chapter in Fyall, A. et. al. (Eds.) ‘International Perspectives of Festivals and Events’.  Oxford: Elsevier: pp. 205-224
Stone, C. (2006) The Big Decision: Factors influencing the Foundation degree student’s choice whether or not to progress to an honours degree, in Bibbings, L. and Wilkes, K. (Eds.) (2006) Association for Tourism in Higher Education Annual Conference Proceedings 2005.  Guildford: ATHE

Professional membership and accreditations

Fellow, the Higher Education Academy
Chartered Environmentalist
Chartered Scientist
Member, The Tourism Society
Member, The Institution of Environmental Sciences

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