{"id":4133,"date":"2016-02-17T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2016-02-17T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T15:40:23","slug":"dr-mark-hampton-represents-kbs-at-eduk-fair-and-guest-lectures-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/02\/dr-mark-hampton-represents-kbs-at-eduk-fair-and-guest-lectures-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Mark Hampton Represents KBS at EDUK Fair and Guest Lectures in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/our-staff\/profiles\/hampton_mark.html\">Dr Mark Hampton<\/a>, Reader in Tourism Management and Faculty Director of Internationalisation, recently represented Kent Business School in Thailand at the EDUK Fair and gave two guest lectures at major universities in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Hampton presented on <em>Tourism and Economic Development in South-East Asia<\/em> at Thammasat University, College of Innovation to seventy undergraduate students and academic staff. He also delivered a guest lecture at Mahidol University, International College.<\/p>\n<p>As author of <em>Backpacker Tourism Economic Development<\/em> (Routledge, 2013) Dr Hampton gave his guest lectures on the rise of international tourism and highlighted the main socio-economic impacts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/8700\/no-more-hippy-trail-routes-as-backpackers-become-tourists\">rapid growth of tourism in South-East Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both guest lectures were an opportunity for KBS to strengthen its international relationships with these institutions and opened discussion about future collaborations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>For further information about Dr Hampton\u2019s work, please contact him directly at <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:M.Hampton@kent.ac.uk\"><strong>M.Hampton@kent.ac.uk<\/strong><\/a><strong> . <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Mark Hampton, Reader in Tourism Management and Faculty Director of Internationalisation, recently represented Kent Business School in Thailand at the EDUK Fair and gave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2016\/02\/dr-mark-hampton-represents-kbs-at-eduk-fair-and-guest-lectures-in-thailand\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40044,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}