Elizabeth Booth
Job title
Senior Lecturer, Tourism Management
Department
Marketing, Events and Tourism
Qualifications
PGCE, MA
Biography:
Elizabeth Booth has ten years' experience as a senior lecturer in tourism management, having contributed to the academic and skills development of hundreds of graduates during that time. Elizabeth’s research areas are in sports tourism, museum management and student progression and learning. For fifteen years until Elizabeth joined the University in 2001, she worked at Penguin Books as an archivist and collections manager, developing art exhibitions for the public in collaboration with such organisations as the Victoria and Albert Museum, and managing the picture research role for a variety of publishing and licensing projects.
Responsibilities within the university:
Teaching and administrative activities
Subjects and Courses Taught in Last 5 Years:
Undergraduate
• Understanding Tourists
• Research Tools for Tourism and Events
• Strategic Income Generation for Tourism Managers
• Dissertation supervision
• Personal and Professional Development I and II
• Introduction to Tourism Management
• Tourism Operations Management
Postgraduate
• Visitor and Destinations Management
• Research Methods
• Dissertation supervision
• Museum Collections and Conservation Management
Current research:
Elizabeth’s current research areas are in sports tourism, student progression and learning, and museums management, in particular licensing and retail in the museums sector. By night, Elizabeth keep’s a blog on Russian gymnastics which feeds into her research interest in sports tourism – it can be found at www.rewritingrussiangymnastics.blogspot.com.
External activities:
Member of the Association for Tourism in Higher Education
Recent publications:
Booth, E. (2006) ‘Merchandising Strategies in the Arts’ (Abstract) Proceedings of the first joint workshop of the non-profit and arts/heritage marketing special interest groups of the Academy of Marketing London: CRM/Academy of Marketing
Booth, E., Dass, R. and Powell R. (2009) Determinants of Progression and Achievement amongst BTEC qualified students on the University of Greenwich BA Tourism Management degree - research project undertaken on behalf of the South London Lifelong Learning Network
Booth, E. and Kennell, J. (2009) (eds) People, Place, Enterprise: Proceedings of the first annual conference on the Olympic Legacy London: Greenwich
Booth, E. and Hayes, D. (2005) ‘Authoring the Brand: literary licensing’ Young Consumers Quarter 4 2005 8-18
