Autore: Anna Spenceley

Dr Anna Spenceley is a specialist in sustainable tourism who has worked for over 20 years in developing countries on assignments promoting conservation and poverty reduction. Anna is Chair of the IUCN”s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group (TAPAS Group). She sits on the board of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), and on the GSTC”s Destination working group. She is also a Senior Research Fellow with the University of Johannesburg and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Brighton. Anna has a substantial publication record on sustainable tourism, including being the lead author of guidelines for tourism concessions in protected areas published by both the Convention on Biological Diversity and The World Bank Group. She has also edited book volumes including Responsible Tourism: Critical issues for Conservation and Development and Tourism and poverty reduction: Impacts and principles in developing countries. Anna sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and of Koedoe. Website: www.anna.spenceley.co.uk Email: [email protected]