Alan Fyall

Dr. Alan Fyall is Associate Dean Academic Affairs and Visit Orlando Endowed Chair of Tourism Marketing at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management and is a member of UCF’s National Center for Integrated Coastal Research. Dr. Fyall is also a Fellow, International Academy for the Study of Tourism, elected Second-Vice-President, Board Member of TravelAbility, the Blue Community Consortium and former Board Member of the Bournemouth Tourism Management Board (DMO) and Solent Synergy Limited. His current research interests relate to tourism sustainability and resilience with a specific focus on the impacts of tourism on resident communities of tourist destinations. Dr. Fyall has made a sustained impact on these fields. Key experiences include: Design and delivery of numerous tourism destination development and management research projects for clients in the UK, European Union, Africa, the Caribbean, USA, and Southeast Asia. Clients include the ESRC (UK), Grant Thornton, Ernst & Young, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Malaysian Government, the Supreme Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (Saudi Arabia), World Travel & Tourism Council and Ocean Panel; Contributing co-lead author to the recently published Opportunities for Transforming Coastal and Marine Tourism: Towards Sustainability, Regeneration and Resilience, commissioned by the Ocean Panel; Co-Editor of Elsevier’s Journal of Destination Marketing & Management (Impact Factor of 8.4 and CiteScore of 13.4) and sits on the editorial boards of many leading journals; Research contributions are well cited: h-index of 51, i10-index of 109 and 20,390 total citations (Google Scholar, October 14, 2023); Supervision of over 26 Ph.D. students through to completion and external examination of over 40 Ph.D. dissertations in the UK, India, France, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.