Regional Workshop:
“Towards National Strategies for Sustainable Heritage
Tourism Development in the Caribbean”
Workshop Facilitators
Dr. Keith Nurse || Dr. Michael Scantlebury || Professor Gladstone Yearwood
Dr. Keith Nurse
Sir Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade, Law and Policy and Service, UWI Dr. Keith Nurse assumed the post of Director in November 2007. He is formerly a member of academic staff at the Institute of International Relations and academic coordinator of the post-graduate diploma in Arts and Cultural Enterprise Management programme, University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Nurse has taught at the Institute of Business and the Department of Government, UWI and the Institute for International Development and Co-operation, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Keith has published numerous scholarly articles on the trade policy and global political economy of the clothing, banana, tourism, copyright and cultural/creative industries. He has also published on the impact of global restructuring on migration and diaspora, HIV/AIDS and security, and youth, gender and poverty.
He is the author of Festival Tourism in the Caribbean (Inter-American Development Bank, 2003) and The Caribbean Music Industry (Caribbean Export Development Agency, 2003). He is also the co-editor of Caribbean Economies and Global Restructuring (Ian Randle Publishers, 2002) and Globalization, Diaspora and Caribbean Popular Culture (Ian Randle Publishers, 2005) and co-author of Windward Islands Bananas: Challenges and Options under the Single European Market (Freidrich Ebert Stiftung, 1995).
Keith has worked as a consultant to several governments, NGOs and international and regional agencies. He is on the advisory board of the MA in Technology Governance at the University of Tallinn, Estonia. He is on the steering committee for the Annual Conference for Development and Change, Carnegie Council for International Affairs and Ethics. He is also an advisory member of the Inter-American Cultural Policy Observatory, Organization of the American States and on the editorial board of the academic journal Tourism and Cultural Change. Dr. Nurse is the past president of the Association of Caribbean Economists.
He has a BA in Economics (1986) from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, and a PhD in International Relations (1992) from the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr. Michael Scantlebury
Rosen School of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, USA
Dr. Michael Scantlebury joined the faculty of the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in August 2005. Previously he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Applied Human Sciences at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and sessional lecturer at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Scantlebury received his doctorate from the University of Waterloo, in Recreation and Leisure Studies where his research focused on heritage tourism. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of West Indies Mona, Jamaica, West Indies, and has earned a Certificate in Tourism Studies from the University of Surrey England, UK. Dr. Scantlebury has worked in travel and tourism since 1985 as research officer, marketing manager, US Manager and Vice President Marketing and Sales for the Barbados Tourism Authority. He was a consultant and manager with Ernst & Young and Coopers & Lybrand (Caribbean) Consultants Inc. in their regional tourism consulting practices. He has extensive tourism consulting experience in the Caribbean and has also conducted consulting assignments in Ontario, Canada.
His research interest is in the areas community-enterprise relationships in heritage tourism, and barriers to heritage tourism development. Dr. Scantlebury is a member of the Travel and Tourism Research Association, the International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators, The Caribbean Conservation Association, the Barbados National Trust and the United States National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Professor Gladstone Yearwood
Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imaginagion, UWI
Professor Gladstone Yearwood holds the PhD and Master of Arts degrees (Ohio University) and the Bachelor of Fine Arts (New York University, Institute of Film-Television). He was first appointed Assistant Professor at Ohio University in 1979 and since that time has taught at North Carolina Central University, Duke University, Carleton University (Canada); and served as Head of Department of Mass Communication at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. In 1987, he was the founding Tutor-Coordinator of the Barbados Community College Mass Communication programme, where he designed the curriculum for BCC’s first Associate Degree. At the University of Central Florida, Professor Yearwood held the rank of full Professor in the School of Film and Digital Media and earlier served as Director of the Zora Neale Hurston Institute and the African American Studies Programme. Professor Yearwood is the author of Black Cinema Aesthetics: Issues in Black Independent Filmmaking and Black Film as a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African American Aesthetic Tradition. He has also published monographs, numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on film and art criticism. His recent work includes the documentary films, Chattel House and Rum Shop, which won a NIFCA Award. Professor Yearwood has received several grants from federal, state and private foundations in the United States. He was the Director of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes on Black Film Studies on Black Film Studies for university teachers. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to China and was a Fellow at the East-West Centre for Technical Interchange at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Professor Yearwood has also received grants from Earthwatch Institute, the Japan Foundation and co-wrote a successful Ford Foundation grant.
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