Professor Bill Faulkner: 19 April 1945–28 January 2002
✍ Scribed by Chris Ryan
- Book ID
- 104314520
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 37 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0261-5177
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✦ Synopsis
In January 2002 I and many colleagues were saddened to hear that Bill Faulkner died after a long battle with stomach cancer. At first we had thought that, in his inimitable quiet style and after several operations over a year earlier, Bill had succeeded in regaining his health but unfortunately by the second half of 2001 we had all learnt that this was not the case. And so, surrounded by his immediate family, towards the end of January, Bill slipped into unconsciousness, leaving behind a tremendous contribution to his chosen field of study and many, many warm memories of a man who loved life, and loved discussion and debate, preferably with a cold beer in hand. It was typical of Bill that he was working, writing and planning until almost the very end, leaving behind a template for his colleagues in the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism in Australia to follow in the immediate future.
His professional contribution to the tourism industry and to academia was simply enormous. Bill gained a first class honours degree from the University of New England in 1973. He then had a successful career as a weightlifter, but subsequently returned to study and gained his doctorate from the Australian National University in 1979. By 1981 he was Principal Research Officer in the Australian Bureau of Transport Economics, and in 1983 was appointed as Director of Research and Development in the Department of Sport, Recreation and Tourism. When the Bureau of Tourism Research was established, Bill became its Director. Then, after 6 years in that post, in 1993, Bill joined Griffith University and its School of Tourism and Hotel Management, to subsequently become its Professor and then Director and Deputy CEO of the CRC for Sustainable Tourism.
But Bill was no mere administrator. He was interested and fascinated by ideas, and in recent years began to explore the implications of chaos theory as a possible means for examining the non-linear nature of tourism
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