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UNWTO awards Professor Geoffrey Wall with Ulysses Prize for Excellence

Xinhua, November 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) announced Tuesday that it has given its prestigious Ulysses Prize for Excellence in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge in Tourism to Professor Geoffrey Wall, who has carried out plenty of relevant work in China.

After studying at the University of Hull (Eastern England), Wall has spent the past 42 years at the University of Waterloo in Canada, currently holding a position as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management.

The UNWTO explained that the Ulysses Prize, which will be bestowed on Professor Wall in Madrid in January 2017, is granted due to his "remarkable work" on several issues, especially his "pioneer research on tourism and climate change and his work on ecotourism and tourism planning."

According to the UNWTO, Wall's ecotourism assessment framework and economic impacts assessment models have been effectively implemented in parks and protected areas, "with a recent emphasis on natural and cultural heritage and indigenous people," which is reflected by the fact that he is currently assisting the preparation of the application for UNESCO World Heritage sites in Western China.

Much of Wall's work was carried out in China, including directing two Five-Year projects on coastal zone management in Hainan Province and serving as an advisor on many tourism planning initiatives, from provincial to local level in the country as well.

The professor is also a prolific writer and researcher, and many of his graduate students are now "leaders in the tourism field." Endi