David Ward-Perkins

France

Key areas of expertise

  • Development of tourism destinations that have a strong cultural identity
  • Cultural and heritage routes
  • Food and culinary tourism
  • Environmentally sensitive areas
  • Strategic plans for mountain and rural areas

Career overview

Through TEAM, David has helped deliver over 50 projects, working for national, regional and local governments around the world; for major non-profit organisations; and for international bodies such as the UNWTO and the European Travel Commission, in countries throughout Europe, North America and the Middle East. He is the principal author of the UNWTO/ETC handbook on ‘Transnational Tourism Themes and Routes’ and of ‘Tourism Routes and Trails’, published by CABI (October 2019). He has published many other papers on tourism management, including on visitor flow analysis for TTRA Europe (Bilbao, 2012) and the Best’en Think Tank (Gréoux, 2012). He is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at conferences on sustainable tourism.

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