Sustainable Events Management

Dr Razaq Raj is Principal Lecturer in the Leeds Business School. His research interests include community events, outdoor events, economic impacts, religious tourism, cultural festivals and sustainable tourism, cultural diversity in events management and international tourism. 

Dr Razaq Raj is the author of the textbooks Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management: An International Perspective, Event Management: An integrated and practical approach and Event Management and Sustainability.

Dr Razaq Raj is also a board member of international journals and academic associations.

Editor of International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Editor of International Journal of Islands Research

Editor of International Journal of Islamic Tourism

Series Editor, CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Book Series

Dr.Kevin Griffin Bed, MA, PhD. Having studied teaching then tourism organisation and historic settlement I worked in a number of Geography Departments in the Dublin / Kildare area. Since 2001 I have worked at the DIT where I am actively involved in teaching and researching a broad range of tourism topics with particular specialism in both heritage and sustainable tourism.

Editor in Chief, International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Editor in Chief, International Journal of Tour Guiding Research

Editor in Chief, International Journal of Islands Research

Series Editor, CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Book Series

Research Interests My main areas of academic interest include:

* Tourism and Sustainability / Environmental Issues

* Heritage Tourism

* Religious Tourism / Pilgrimage

* Social Tourism

* Teaching Methodologies and Tourism

* Local History / Heritage