Professor Chris Ryan has been at the University of Waikato since 1998, having arrived from his previous post of Professor of Tourism at the Northern Territory University. Chris is the editor of 'Tourism Management', has written well over 100 academic journal articles, book chapters and conference papers and some books. In 1999 he was appointed to the APEC Tourism Minister's Advisory Committee by the Korean Social Science Association for Tourism for the 2000 APEC Tourism Minister's conference, and again for the 2004 APEC Tourism Ministers' Conference held in Chile by the APEC Centre for Sustainable Tourism. Other international work includes work for the World Tourism Organisation. Within New Zealand he has completed work for Tourism New Zealand, the Ministry of Tourism, Tourism Auckland, Tourism Waikato and individual private sector organisations. One of these pieces of work, in 2004, required a review of New Zealand's Tourism Research Strategy on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism. His experiences range from work involved in helping to establish a World Heritage Site to advising on pricing for a jet boat operation. Chris is an Hononary Professor of the University of Wales and visits the Centre for Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Wales Institute at Cardiff on an annual basis. He is interested in research methods and epistemologies, and in tourist behaviours and the consequences of those behaviours in terms of impacts - social, psychological and environmental; and in the business organisations that shape those tourist experiences. His social science background is in economics and psychology having degrees from London, Nottingham, Nottingham Trent and Aston Universities.

• Tourist-host nexus – research considerations; Visitor Experiences of Indigenous Tourism – introduction; A phenomenological investigation of tourists’ experience of Australian Indigenous culture; Understanding the Nature of the Marae Experience: Views from Hosts and Visitors at the Nga Hau E Wha National Marae, Christchurch, New Zealand; Balanda Tourists and Aboriginal People; Who Manages Indigenous Cultural Tourism Product – Aspiration and Legimitimization; An Evaluation of Sustainable American Indian Tourism; Community-based tourism and the marginalized communities in Botswana: The case of the Basarwa in the Okavango Delta, Botswana; Limits to Indigenous Ecotourism: An Exploratory Analysis from the Tl'azt'en Territories, Northern British Coumbia; Public Sector Initiatives for Aboriginal Small Business Development in Tourism; Events and Artifacts; Limiting Tourism and the Limits of Tourism: The Production and Consumption of Tourist Attractions in Western Flores; Dongba Art in Lijiang, China: Indigenous culture, Local Community and Tourism; What and where is the Indigenous at an Indigenous Festival? Observations from the Winter Festival in Jokkmokk, Sweden; Conceptualisation and Aspiration; Reconciliation Tourism: Challenging the Constraints of Economic Rationalism; To Experience the 'Real' Australia – a Liminal Authentic CulturalExperience; Conceptualising "Otherness" as a Management Framework for Tourism Enterprise.

"...the volume is at once a candid depiction of indigenous tourism during the early years of the twenty-first century, and a guide for what remains to be accomplished." -Mark J. Okrant, TOURISM MANAGEMENT (2005) "The work is well-organized and informative." -Janet Chang, ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH (2005)