Professor Gareth Shaw

Gareth Shaw is Professor of Retail and Tourism Management at the University of Exeter Business School. He was formerly Professor of Human Geography at Exeter and has a BA and PhD in Human Geography. Professor Shaw has worked on numerous research projects related to retail and tourism development all of which have been funded by major grant awarding bodies. In addition, he has written widely within tourism and produced key texts on tourism studies.

Professor Shaw has acted as a consultant for many local, national and international organisations; these include UNESCO, American Express, Coca Cola and Amoco Oil, Visit England and South West Tourism. He is an elected member of the Tourism Research Centre at Modul University, Vienna and the International Academy of Tourism. In addition, he was also an Innovation Fellow at the Advanced Institute of Management and a currently a member of the Innovation Caucus which is an initiative funded jointly by Innovate UK and the ESRC. He was the Chair of the EU COST Action on Tourism, Wellbeing and Ecosystem services (2012-2017) and also Leader of Theme 5 on the EU Smartline project which involves the development of SMEs and e-Health in the Cornish economy (2017-2020).