University of Western Sydney

Faculty Member, School of Social Sciences

Lecturer (Tourism Planning & Heritage Studies)

College of Arts

About

Poll has worked with UWS in Australia as a lecturer since 2001. His background was in a wide range of practice over 10 years in architecture, landscape, project management, urban design, urban and regional planning. Since 2000, he has had published nine refereed papers in the multi-disciplinary research areas linking community-based cultural tourism planning and ethics in tourism development in less-developed countries. His concepts of Buddhist ethical applications in tourism planning in the Mekong region have been cited in the two key texts; i.e. Tourism Ethics (Fennell, 2007) and Codes of Ethics in Tourism: Practice, Theory, Synthesis (Fennell & Malloy, 2007) as well as in a few refereed papers. His teaching subjects at UWS range from tourism subjects such as Tourism Policy and Planning, Cultural Tourism, Indigenous Tourism to the subjects in Peace and Development Studies. In July 2008, he completed his Ph.D. thesis with the title: "Tourism Planning and Policy in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Local Perspectives on Development and Participation – A Study of Ethnic Communities in Northern Thailand".

He is now working on his books about Mekong Stories and Dhamma Tourism. His current research are on peace through tourism and interpreting tourism images and heritage identities through visual arts and multimedia technology sources.

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