Dr Kevin Griffin
Senior Lecturer
Email: Kevin.Griffin@TUDublin.ie
Tel: +353 (0)1-220 5809
Kevin Griffin, BEd, MA, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Tourism in the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism at Technological University Dublin.
Kevin is an experienced educator with research interests in academic, local and commercial spheres. With a twin background in geography (tourism / historical) and education, his research has always been based on both academic and practical field-based research, which he incorporates into his teaching. Kevin’s interests range from sustainability to religious tourism and heritage management to local history, while always interested in research that has meaning and purpose, particularly for those on-the-ground, especially at a local community level. Kevin delivers a broad range of modules to students at all levels right up to PhD and has won Institutional awards for the manner in which he engages learners in the education process.
Kevin has been studying, writing, and teaching about sustainability since the late 1990s and was a manager of two large EPA / Fáilte Ireland funded projects, both which developed and field-tested a model of sustainable tourism indicators - The ACHIEV Model for Sustainable Tourism Planning. Tested in a number of Irish destinations, the ACHIEV Model has been identified as an exemplar of best practice and was used in the development of the European Tourism Indicator System.
Kevin is the Chairperson of the Institute for Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage which organises an annual conference and manages a number of publication projects. He is also Editor-in-Chief for the TU Dublin published International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage which is internationally recognised and ranked with SCOPUS and many other agencies. Kevin is also Series Editor for the Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Book Series.
In more recent times Kevin has established two other international Open Access Journals for which he is also Editor-in-Chief: the International Journal of Tour Guiding Research and the International Journal of Islands Research. Both of these are hosted on Arrow the TU Dublin repository.
Publications
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