Justin Taillon

Howdy! my name is Justin and I'm from Texas. I enjoy long walks on the beach and...no, I really do! I also enjoy traveling and learning about the world surrounding us. I believe my high school guidance counsellor nailed it when she called me a "hospitality person". My hospitality career began at eighteen. More than a decade later I still haven't worked a day in my life. As Confucius wrote, "Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

Not working doesn't mean I haven't put in long hours. I opened properties in Houston with Starwood, Hilton, and Marriott, I pulled many all-nighters while working on my undergrad studies at Houston, my MBA at Guelph, and my PhD at Texas A&M. Here is more information about me...

RESEARCH
I am most interested in sustainable hospitality pedagogy and socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability. This often includes market-based conservation and best practices in hospitality and tourism.

A brief history of my recent experiences:

CONSULTING

· (2013). The Education of Branding, Preventive Maintenance, and Employee Education and Training. A consulting project in conjunction with Last Call Resort (Turks & Caicos)

· (2014). The Samburu tribe’s Sabache glamping hotel: Market-based conservation via socio-cultural last chance tourism.

· (2014). Knowledge building and mobilization to strengthen the capacity of smallholder farmers for rainforest preservation in the Peruvian Amazon.

· (2015). Long Acres Ranch feasibility study, Houston, TX.

PUBLICATIONS

Slum tourism: Poverty, power, and ethics. International Journal of Tourism Policy, 4(4), 377-379.

Critical debates in tourism. Anatolia, 24(1), 101-103.

Tourism, regional development, and public policy. International Journal of Tourism Policy, 5(1/2), 152-154.

Tourist gaze 3.0. Current Issues in Tourism, 17(2), 199-201.

Turning the tune: Traditional music, tourism, and social change in an Irish village. Journal of Heritage Tourism,9(1), 352-353.

The concept of environmental management systems. Hotel & Business Management, 3(1).

Tourism, poverty, and development. International Journal of Tourism Policy,5(3), 245-247.

Hotel pet policies: An assessment of willingness to pay for traveling with a pet. Anatolia, 26(1), 89-91.