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Dr. Peter U. C. Dieke, an Associate Professor of Tourism and Events Management at George Mason University, received his B.A. from the University of Nigeria in 1975; M.S. from the University of Massachusetts in 1981; and Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom in 1988. A leading scholar in International Tourism Development, his research focuses on policy, planning and implementation strategies for less developed countries, with a regional interest in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Dieke’s teaching specialties include sustainable tourism, tourism policy and planning, tourism in less developed countries, global understanding of tourism, tourism economics, ecotourism, political economy model of tourism development.

He has also advised governments and undertaken assignments for several international organizations, including United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); World Tourism Organization (WTO); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA); the African Union (previously Organization of African Unity - OAU); British Council; the Foundation for Democracy in Africa; NEPAD (The New Partnership for Africa’s Development); ATLAS Africa (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education), etc.

• Tourism Development: Policy formulation, planning, and implementation of plans
• Sustainable Tourism
• Tourism Human Resource Development
• Tourism Economics
• Marketing Tourism Services
• Tourism in Less Developed Countries (LDCs)
• Tourism in sub-Saharan Africa
• Ecotourism

• Dieke, Peter U. C. (Ed.) (2000), The Political Economy of Tourism Development in Africa, Elmsford, New York: Cognizant.
• Seaton, A. V., C. L. Jenkins, R. C. Wood, P. U. C. Dieke, M. M. Bennett, L. R. MacLellan, R. Smith (eds.) (1994) Tourism: The State of the Art. Chichester, UK: John Wiley.

Classes Taught

• Fall 2005
• TOUR 340 Sustainable Tourism
• TOUR 430 Tourism on Public Lands
• Spring 2006
• TOUR 312 Ecotourism
• TOUR 420 Tourism Planning and Policy

• School of Recreation, Health and Tourism
• Center for Recreation and Tourism Research and Policy
• Tourism and Events Management

• Ecotourism (TOUR - 312)
• Ecotourism (TOUR - 312)
• Tourism Planning/Policy (TOUR - 420)