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Biography

Alan Fyall is the associate dean of Academic Affairs and Visit Orlando Endowed Chair of Tourism Marketing at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, and he is a member of UCF’s National Center for Integrated Coastal Research. His research relates to tourism resilience and the impacts of tourism on resident communities of tourist destinations.

Fyall teaches International Tourism Management and to date has examined 31 Ph.D.s in the UK, India, France, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong and Malaysia. He has organized a number of international conferences and workshops for academic, professional and governmental audiences and is frequently invited to deliver keynote addresses.

He has published widely in the areas of tourism and destination marketing and management, including 22 books, and he is editor of Elsevier’s Journal of Destination Marketing & Management and sits on the editorial boards of many leading journals.

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