Dr Mark Hampton

Dr Mark Hampton joined Kent Business School in 2005. Before that, he had lecturing posts at the universities of Surrey and Portsmouth. Dr Hampton has a PhD from the University of East Anglia. In 2005 he founded CENTICA (Centre for Tourism in Islands and Coastal Areas).
Dr Hampton has extensive field experience in South-East Asia, the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and South Atlantic and his research has been funded by the World Bank; Commonwealth Secretariat; Foreign & Commonwealth Office; DFID; SECO (Swiss overseas aid); Ministry of Tourism Malaysia; British Academy and the British Council. 

Tourism in developing countries, especially concerning its socio-economic impacts in islands and coastal areas.
He has worked on backpackers and small-scale tourism; scuba dive tourism, island tourism, cross-border tourism, and urban enclaves. Dr Hampton has written two books (solo-authored research monographs) and co-edited another. He has written more than 40 journal papers and book chapters with publications in leading journals (including Annals of Tourism Research; World Development; Environment and Planning A; Third World Quarterly; Human Relations; The Round Table) and has given more than 90 conference papers. 

Dr Hampton’s teaching interests broadly cover the areas of tourism planning/development and tourism management.
Specific tourism modules he has convened include CB550 Tourism Planning and Development; CB557 Tourism in Developing Countries; CB558 Contemporary Issues in Tourism; CB994 Managing Island and Coastal Tourism; CB995 Tourism Development in Asia Pacific. 

Past Supervisees

• Juliane Thieme: The Political Economy of Backpacker Tourism Consumption and Production in Colombia
• Wei Lei (Shirley) Chin: An Analysis of the Tourism Cluster Development Model and the Links Between Destination Competitiveness and Socio-Economic Prosperity. The Cases of Two Small Developing Economies: Bali and Brunei
• Joern Fricke: The Evolution of Networks in Backpacker Destinations - Case Studies from Mexico and Malaysia
• Caroline Walsh: Volunteer Tourism and the Marine Conservation Sector in the UK
• Bilge Daldeniz: Sustainable Tourism Development and Climate Change in Coastal Communities in Less Developed Countries: An Analysis of Small-scale Tourism in Nicaragua 

• In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS)
• Visiting Professor of Tourism at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
• Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg
• Founding Member of ISISA (International Small Island Studies Association)
• Former Treasurer and since 2010, a member of the Advisory Council.