Samantha Chaperon
Job title
Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader in MA Events Management
Department
Marketing, Events and Tourism
Qualifications
BA Hons, PGCert (x4), PhD
Dr Chaperon joined University of Greenwich as a Visiting Lecturer in September 2008 and as a full-time lecturer in November 2009. Before joining the university she was a Visiting Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, University of Sheffield, and University of Westminster. Dr Chaperon lectures on a range of courses for tourism and events management programmes, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Research/scholarly interests
Her recently completed PhD thesis examines responses to the issues that surround tourism development and tourism governance in a core-periphery context, with a case study focus on the Maltese Islands.
Selected publications
Chaperon, S., and Bramwell, B. (2011) Views About the Scale and Types of Tourism Development in the Rural Periphery: The Case of Gozo. In: Macleod, D., and Gillespie, S. (eds.) Sustainable Tourism in Rural Europe: Approaches to Development. Routledge.
Conference papers
Kennell, J., and Chaperon, S. 2011. Seaside towns and Local Enterprise Partnerships: domestic tourism in a core-periphery context. Proceedings of the ATHE Annual Conference, Back to the Future: Restating the Case for Tourism in Higher Education. Association for Tourism in Higher Education, Canterbury, England, 1–3 December 2011.
