Place of birth: Sacramento, California

Parentage: son of Chinese father and German mother

Education: California State University, Sacramento 1973–74; University of Hong Kong 1974–75; Chinese University of Hong Kong 1975–76; University of California, Berkeley 1978–79; BA, Geography and Asia Studies minor, University of Hawaii at Hilo 1981; MA, Geography, University of Oregon 1983; Master of Urban Planning, University of Oregan 1983; PhD, Geography, University of Oregon 1986; American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP Certificate No. 8947) 1991

Career: Alan Lew has been Professor and Chairman of the Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Northern Arizona University (NAU) since 1999. He was appointed Assistant Professor in 1986 and Associate Professor with tenure in 1992. He was Coordinator of the MA degree in Rural Geography Program at NAU from 1990–96, and since 2001, and was Associate Chairman of the Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation at NAU from 1999–2000. He was Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany in 1989 and Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore from 1997–98. Later, he was Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Asian Tourism Research and Education in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2000, 2001 and 2002. He is a member of the Recreation, Tourism and Sport Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, the Commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change, the International Geographical Union and the Arizona Planning Association. Alan Lew has been Editor of the journal Tourism Geographies (see url below) since 1998.

Publications include: Tourism and Gaming on American Indian Lands (co-editor) 1998, Sustainable Tourism: A Geographical Perspective (co-author) 1998, Tourism in China (co-author) 2002, A Companion to Tourism (co-editor) 2004, Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (co-editor) 2005; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Box 15016, Room 230, SBS West (Bldg 70), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5016, USA; Tel: +1 928-523-6567; Fax: +1 928-523-2275; Email: alan.lew@nau.edu ; Website: http://www.geog.nau.edu/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14616688.asp/ .