Professor Paul Brunt
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Professor Paul Brunt

Emeritus Professor

Plymouth Business School (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

Professor Paul Brunt can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
  • Tourism
  • Tourism and crime
  • Higher education quality assurance
Biography

Biography

Emeritus Professor

Qualifications

1986 BSc (Hons) Geography and Landscape Studies, Southampton University             

1990   PhD Bournemouth Polytechnic Tourism trip decision making at the sub-regional level: With special reference to Southern England

                

Professional membership

1993-    Member of Tourism Society (MTS)

2002-07   Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching / HE Academy

2007-        Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Key publications

Brunt P (2010) 'Tourism and Crime' in Botterill D; Jones T Tourism and Crime Goodfellow Pub Limited 53-66 Open access
Brunt PR (2010) 'Vulnerable Victims' in Botterill D; Jones T Tourism and Crime: Key Themes Oxford Goodfellow Publishers Limited Open access
Brunt P & Hooton N (2010) 'Community Responses to Tourism and Crime' Crime Prevention and Community Safety: an international journal 12, (1) 42-57 Open access
Agarwal S & Brunt P (2006) 'Social exclusion and English seaside resorts' TOURISM MANAGEMENT 27, (4) 654-670 Author Site , DOI Open access
Brunt P & Brophy K (2006) 'Gay Tourist Victimisation' International Review of Victimology 1-25
Agarwal S & Brunt P (2006) 'Social Exclusion and Crime in English Seaside Resorts' Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 1, 19-35
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Teaching

Teaching

Staff serving as external examiners

2005-10     BA Tourism, Oxford Brookes University

2000-05         BA Tourism, Sheffield Hallam University

1999-03         BA Tourism, University of Wales,Hereford College

1996-99         MA Tourism, Management at University of Brighton

1996-00         BA Tourism, University of Wales Institute Cardiff

Research

Research

Research interests

Research interests include tourism and crime and tourism research methods. Published research in the tourism and crime area including media representations of terrorist acts against tourists. Author of textbooks on research methods in tourism, hospitality and events management.

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

 

·        ‘The Projected and Perceived Image of Ireland as a Tourist Destination for British Travellers’ (2005) Murphy-Underhill

·        ‘The Adoption of Internet Technologies by Independent Hotels in the UK’ (2007) Lim

·        ‘Tourism and Crime whoseproblem? A Cornish Perspective’ (2008) Jones

·        ‘Caravan Second Homes: An Empirical study of Consumer Behaviour towards a Depreciating Property Asset’ (2010) -Fowler

·        ‘An evaluation of tourismcommunities and community responses to tourism and crime’ (2012) Hooton

·        ‘An empirical study into UK customer expectations of dining out in relation to meal cost’ (2012) Westhead

·        ‘The Role of Literary Texts in Tourism Destination Management’ (2015) Mansfield

·        ‘Petit Trianon and Marie Antoinette: Representation, Interpretation, Perception’ (2016) Maior-Barron

·        ‘Perceptions of Risks and Barriers to Participation in Tourism for the Disabled’ (2016) Fraser (MPhil)

·        ‘The Island Image: A Means of Segmentation’ (2017) Phillips

Publications

Publications

Key publications

Brunt P (2010) 'Tourism and Crime' in Botterill D; Jones T Tourism and Crime Goodfellow Pub Limited 53-66 Open access
Brunt PR (2010) 'Vulnerable Victims' in Botterill D; Jones T Tourism and Crime: Key Themes Oxford Goodfellow Publishers Limited Open access
Brunt P & Hooton N (2010) 'Community Responses to Tourism and Crime' Crime Prevention and Community Safety: an international journal 12, (1) 42-57 Open access
Agarwal S & Brunt P (2006) 'Social exclusion and English seaside resorts' TOURISM MANAGEMENT 27, (4) 654-670 Author Site , DOI Open access
Brunt P & Brophy K (2006) 'Gay Tourist Victimisation' International Review of Victimology 1-25
Agarwal S & Brunt P (2006) 'Social Exclusion and Crime in English Seaside Resorts' Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 1, 19-35

Key publications are highlighted

Journals
Articles
Phillips J & Brunt P (2013) 'Developing a typology for the winter sports market, UK' Tourism (3) 219-243
Phillips J & Brunt P (2013) 'Tourist differentiation: Developing a typology for the winter sports market' Tourism 61, (3) 219-243
Brunt P & Hooton N (2010) 'Community Responses to Tourism and Crime' Crime Prevention and Community Safety: an international journal 12, (1) 42-57 Open access
Brunt P & Brophy K (2006) 'Gay Tourist Victimisation' International Review of Victimology 13, (3) 275-299 , DOI
Agarwal S & Brunt P (2006) 'Social exclusion and English seaside resorts' TOURISM MANAGEMENT 27, (4) 654-670 Author Site , DOI Open access
Brunt P & Brophy K (2006) 'Gay Tourist Victimisation' International Review of Victimology 1-25
Agarwal S & Brunt P (2006) 'Social Exclusion and Crime in English Seaside Resorts' Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 1, 19-35
Brunt P & Davis C (2006) 'The Nature of British Media Reporting of Hedonoistic Tourism' Crime Prevention and Community Safety: an international journal 1, 30-50
Brunt P & Shepherd D (2004) 'The influence of crime on tourist decision-making: Some empirical evidence' Tourism 52, (4) 317-328
Brunt P & Brophy K (2004) 'English Seaside Resorts and the Deviant Tourist' Acta Turistica 1, 3-30
Busby GD, Brunt P & Lund J (2003) 'In Agatha Christie Country: resident perception of special interest tourism' Tourism 51, (3) 287-300
Busby G, Brunt P & Lund J (2003) 'In Agatha Christie Country: Resident Perception of Special Interest Tourism' Tourism 3, 287-300
Brunt P & Cousins K (2002) 'Terrorism, Tourism and The Media' Security Journal 1, 19-32
Brunt P & Cousins K (2002) 'The Extent of the Impact of Terrorism on International Travel and Tourism at Specific Destinations' Crime Prevention and Community Safety: an international journal 3, 7-21
Brunt P (2001) 'Consumer behaviour in tourism' TOURISM MANAGEMENT 22, (5) 579-580 Author Site , DOI
Brunt P (2001) 'Tourism, Crime and the Media' Criminal Justice Matters 43, (1) 38-39 , DOI
Brunt P, Mawby R & Hambly Z (2000) 'Tourist victimisation and the fear of crime on holiday' TOURISM MANAGEMENT 21, (4) 417-424 Author Site , DOI
Mawby RI, Brunt P & Hambly Z (2000) 'Fear of crime among British holidaymakers' BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY 40, (3) 468-479 Author Site , DOI
Brunt P & Courtney P (1999) 'Host perceptions of sociocultural impacts' ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH 26, (3) 493-515 Author Site , DOI
Mawby RI, Brunt P & Hambly Z (1999) 'Victimisation on Holiday: A British Survey' International Review of Victimology 6, (3) 201-211 , DOI
Brunt P & Hambly Z (1999) 'Tourism and Crime: A Research Agenda' Crime Prevention and Community Safety 1, (2) 25-36 , DOI
Busby G, Brunt P & Baber S (1997) 'Tourism sandwich placements: An appraisal' TOURISM MANAGEMENT 18, (2) 105-110 Author Site , DOI
Books
Brunt P, Horner S & Semley N (2017) Research Methods in Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management.
Brunt P (1998) Market Research in Travel and Tourism. Butterworth-Heinemann
Chapters
Hall MC & Müller DK (2018) 'The Routledge Handbook Of Second Home Tourism And Mobilities' Routledge , DOI
Brunt P (2010) 'Tourism and Crime' in Botterill D; Jones T Tourism and Crime Goodfellow Pub Limited 53-66 Open access
Brunt PR (2010) 'Vulnerable Victims' in Botterill D; Jones T Tourism and Crime: Key Themes Oxford Goodfellow Publishers Limited Open access
Personal

Personal

Other academic activities

QAA reviewer since 1999 - experience of Subject Review, Institutional Audit, Collaborative Provision Audit, Foundation Degree Review, Institutional Review, IRENI, IQER, HER, QRV, HER AP, Appeals.