Patrick Brouder

Patrick is the Chair of the Tourism Department and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Adventure, Culinary Arts & Tourism at Thompson Rivers University.

His research focuses on three interrelated aspects of tourism across western and northern Canada:

- Indigenous tourism (as a form of endogenous economic development in partner communities),

- creative tourism (in 'creative outposts' in rural and remote places), and

- tourism evolution (long-term processes of change in the tourism sector).

Patrick is a senior editor for the academic journal Tourism Geographies and is serving as past president on the board of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation and on the steering committee of the International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN).

Originally from Limerick, Ireland, Patrick has been working with communities in northern Sweden and western Canada since 2008. He was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017) at Brock University - working on rural tourism development in Niagara - and a BC Regional Innovation Chair (2018-2022) at Vancouver Island University - working province-wide on rural tourism development. 

All of his published research can be viewed on Google Scholar.

Patrick is currently the lead applicant on the project 'Arctification' in Tourism: Perspectives from Canada and a co-applicant on the project British Columbia Parks and Protected Areas Research Knowledge Hub. Find out more under Current Projects. 

Patrick co-edited the State of Rural Canada 2024: Inclusive and Sustainable Futures for Rural and Northern Communities. His most recent co-edited books are Global Tourism and COVID-19: Implications for Theory and Practice and the Handbook of Innovation for Sustainable Tourism.

Patrick Brouder was the 2020 recipient of the Roy Wolfe award for outstanding contributions to the field and discipline of recreation, tourism, and sport geography at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.

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