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Steve Butts

 

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Dr Steve Butts

  • Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Events & Tourism Management, School of Tourism and Hospitality (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
  • Address: Room 315, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +441752585614
  • Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 585646
  • Email: S.Butts@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
BSc (Hons) Events Management Programme Manager 

Qualifications & background

Ph.D. Applied Anthropology University of South Florida


Master's Degree in Anthropology from University of Kansas


Bachelor's Degree University of Kansas

 

Professional membership

 

Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology

 


Teaching interests

Design and Themes
Events Management
Experience Economy

Intercultural Communication

Heritage Tourism

Tourism & Lifestyle Choice

Tourism Development
Socialisation and Social Change

Practical Application of Culture

 


Research interests
Current research interests include events and tourism innovation, evaluation, development, culture and tourism, the surfing subculture, and intercultural communication.  


Publications

Butts, S. (2009) ‘New Space Desire Lines: A Tour Through the Experience.’  EuroCHRIE, Helsinki, October. 

 

Butts, S., and Parkman, R. (2009) ‘Motivational Interviewing:  A New Approach to Personal Development Planning,’ 4th International Scientific Conference Planning for the Future - Learning from the Past: Contemporary Developments in Tourism, Travel & Hospitality, Rhodes, April. 

 

Zhou, Z, and Butts. S. (2008) ‘Intercultural Differences and the Heritage Tourism Experience:  An Exploration of Western and Chinese Values,’ Conference Proceedings of The 4th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure, Anatolia, April.

 

Butts, S. (2007) 'Developing Intercultural Communication:  A University Project,' Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, 6(2):109-114.

 
Butts, S. (2007) 'Internationalisation:  Home Truths and Home Students, All Ireland Society for Higher Education, Maynooth, August. 

Butts, S, and Briedenhann, J. (2006) 'Rural Tourism:  Projects, Environment and Viability,' Acta Turistica, 18(2):109-137.

Briedenhann, J. and Butts, S. (2006) ‘Challenges and Shortcomings: Use of the Delphi Technique in Rural Tourism Project Evaluation,’ Current Issues in Tourism, 9(2):171-190.

O’Neill, K., Butts, S. and Busby, G. (2006) ‘The Corellification of Cephallonian Tourism,’ Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 16(2):207-221. 

Butts, S. (2005) ‘Intercultural Communication in English Higher Education:  Not Waving, Drowning,’ Europe Inside Out: International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication, December, Brussels. 

Briedenhann, J. and Butts, S. (2005) ‘Utilisation-Focused Evaluation,’ Review of Policy Research, 22(2):221-244. 

Butts, S, Briedenhann, J, and McGeorge, A. (2005) ‘The Great Cornish Maize Maze: Low Risk, Low Cost, High Yield,’ Culture & Agriculture, 27(1):61-68.

Butts, S. (2005) ‘Community Attitudes and Failure to Respond: A Hegemonic Model.’ Pasos: Journal of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, 3(1):199-202.

Butts, S. (2005) ‘Intercultural Communication:  Tools for Understanding,’ Workshop for the Higher Education Academy South West Forum, January. 

Briedenhann, J. and Butts, S. (2004) ‘Tourism Administration and Implementation Under Transition: Policy and Practice in South Africa,‘ in Hall, D. (ed), Tourism and Transition: Global Processes, Local Impacts, Wallingford: CABI.  Pp. 201-216.

Butts, S. (2004) ‘Rural Tourism Innovation and Lifestyle Choice,’ Tourism State of the Art II, Glasgow, June.

Butts, S., McGeorge, A. (2003) ‘Rural Tourism Innovation and Entrepreneurial Skills,‘ Conference Proceedings for the 2nd International Scientific Conference, Sustainable Tourism Development and the Environment, Chios Island, Greece, October.

Briedenhann, J, and Butts, S (2002) ‘Studying Up: A Scrutiny of South African Tourism Policy,’ Practicing Anthropology, 25(2):31-33.

 

Butts, S. and Briedenhann J. (2002) ‘Failure to Implement:  Putting South Africa's Tourism Policy into Practice,’ Tourism Research 2002 Conference, Cardiff, September. 

Butts, S. (2001) ‘Driving Culture Underground: Tourism and the Market Economy,’ High Plains Anthropologist, 21(2):196-198.

Butts, S., (2001) ‘Good to the Last Drop: Understanding Surfers’ Motivations.’ Sociology of Sport Online, Volume 4(1).

Butts, S. (2001) ‘Business as Usual:  Tourism Development into the 21st Century,’in M. Robinson et al, (eds), Management, Marketing and the Political Economy of Tourism.   Sheffield Hallam University, Pp 31-41. 

 


Other academic activities

2006 - Univeristy of Plymouth Internationalisation Change Academy Group

2006-2007 University Teaching Fellow
    "Mapping the non-UK Domiciled Student Experience."

2005-2006 University Teaching Fellow
    "Intecultural Awareness and Conflict Alleviation."