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Tazim Jamal
- Professor Emerita
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Resume/CV
Education
- Undergraduate Education
- B.S. Geology, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1983)
- B.A. French, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (1984). (Awarded Bronze)
- Graduate Education
- M.B.A., The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (1991)
- Ph.D., Faculty of Management, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (1997)
- Awards
- Elected Fellow, International Academy for the Study of Tourism
- Lifetime achievement in tourism research award by the Scientific Committee of the ICOT2019 conference ‘Tourism into the New Decade: Challenges and Prospects,’ Braga, Portugal, June 26-29, 2019
- Breaking the Frame award (2005) received at the Las Vegas conference of the Journal of Management Inquiry for the publication Everett, J. and Jamal, T. (2004). Multistakeholder Collaboration as Symbolic Marketplace and Pedagogic Practice
- Journal of Management Inquiry, 13(1): 57–77. This paper received a recognition also at the Academy of Management conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, in August 2005
- Bronze Medal in French. The University of Calgary, Canada 1980–1981
- Courses Taught
- RPTS 426 Tourism Impacts
- RPTS 646 Heritage Tourism
Areas of Expertise
- Tourism planning
- Heritage tourism
- Sustainable tourism
- Community service learning
Professional Summary
Tazim Jamal is Professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. Her primary research areas are sustainable tourism, collaborative tourism planning, and heritage tourism. She is also interested in methodological issues in tourism research, particularly critical and interpretive research.
Among other publications, she is the author of Justice and Ethics in Tourism (Routledge, 2019), lead co-editor of Justice and Tourism: Principles and Approaches for Local-Global Sustainability and Well-Being (Routledge, 2021), lead co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (2009), and Associate Editor of the Springer Encyclopedia of Tourism, 2016, 2024. She is on the editorial board of ten peer-reviewed journals. She is also Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism (the “Academy”).