Prof. Peter M. Burns, PhD, MA, MEd, FRGS, AcSS, University of Brighton

Peter Burns is founding Director of Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS) at the University of Brighton. He is an elected Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and is listed on the World Who’s Who. He has been writing about the impacts of tourism for some 20 years and is the author of the internationally acclaimed publication “An Introduction to Tourism and Anthropology”. CENTOPS has hosted a number of significant international conferences on aspects of tourism and sustainability which have broadened and deepened our understanding of the problems.
Peter Burns has two streams of current research. First, the roles and responsibilities throughout the tourism value chain in climate change. The findings have prompted the first of a series of on-line surveys to further investigate attitudes and values among various stakeholder groups. The second stream, 'A Secret History of Holidays', uses private archive material and interviews to capture experiences and memories of the first generation of post-war tourists.