An international tourism expert has become the first Adjunct Professor in Sustainable Tourism at CQUniversity-Australia.

‘Dr Thomas Bauer has substantial international experiences, qualifications and reputation as a leading sustainable tourism researcher, educator, investor and tourism operator’, said Prof. Roger March, Dean of the School of Management and Marketing at CQUniversity-Australia.

‘We are delighted he has accepted our invitation to join our faculty as we develop our new tourism degrees and tourism course throughout of network of campus in Australia and Singapore, as well as for a growing number of distance education students located all over the world’.

Now ‘Adjunct Professor Bauer’, Thomas recently completed a 12 year posting as Assistant Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, contributing to that University’s leading Asian and 2nd position in world terms for scholarly publications. He has now has returned to his family business interest based at the Dundee Park Academy near Mission Beach, Queensland.

Adjunct Professor Bauer said he was excited with his new relationship at CQUniversity-Australia. ‘I look forward to  contributing to the development of CQUni’s links with academic, industry, government and international agencies, assisting in post graduate research supervision and collaboration  with CQUniversity academics on research projects and joint publications under the CQUni brand.

Dr Bauer’s  extensive University teaching and research publications work, along with wide ranging cross cultural consultancies and professional practice have seen him address numerous international Conferences, lead multi-disciplinary project team in a number of countries and provide leadership in multi-lateral agencies such as the United National World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), World Vision, Pacific Asia Travel Association, Asia Pacific Education & Training Institute for Tourism (APETIT) and numerous national governments across Asia, the Pacific and Africa.

He is a leading world authority on tourism in Antarctica, and since 2003 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London. He retains strong linkages with the tertiary education sector in China as Honorary Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Tourism and as Guest Professor at the Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsah, Hunan Province, China. As an Auditor of the International Centre for Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality Education Assessment Panel  (www.the-ice.org) Dr Bauer will be able to mentor CQUni efforts for international benchmarking and accreditation of its new tourism related degrees.

At CQUniversity, Adjunct Professors are a high honour appointment enabling to University to optimise significant links with industry, the professions and the wider community. Adjunct Professors receive the privileges of a full time academic staff member, can contribute to post graduate research supervision, can provide Guest Lectures from time to time on topics where expertise is relevant to the CQUni community and provide experienced academic and business knowledge to policy and/or Committee input for the School of Management and Marketing, CQUniversity.