Dr Calvin Jones - Associate Member

Career Experience and Qualifications

Calvin holds a PhD in the Economics of Tourism and Major Events. His research interests focus on the environmental impact of economic activity, particularly ‘non-traditional’ activities such as tourism and sport. He has been involved in the development of a number of measurement tools for sustainability, including the pilot Environmental Satellite Accounts for Wales and the Tourism Environmental Satellite Account for Wales. His work has been widely published,and in several languages, and he is an expert invitee to the UN World Tourism Organisation’s Committee on Tourism Satellite Accounts and Economics of Tourism.

Selected research

Economy-Environment ad hoc Research Project – Environment Agency Wales, 2008
Major Event Evaluation Pilot Study – UK Sport (With Sheffield Hallam), 2008
Tourism Impact and Planning Model for Wales (Phase 3) – VisitWales, 2008
Understanding Tourism’s Economic Impact – North West Development Agency, 2008
Economic Impact & Strategic Assessment of Community Housing Cymru – CH Cymru
The Economic Impact of the 2007 UEFA Cup Final– Glasgow Marketing (with Experian), 2007
An Evaluation of the 2006 Rally of Great Britain – Welsh Assembly Government, 2007
Economic Impact of S4C 2007 (with DTZ) for S4C (£40,000)
Review of the Regional Tourism Partnerships 2007 for Visit Wales
Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare for Wales – 2007 for WAG
The Impact of Nuclear Incidents – 2007 for Health Protection Agency
Review of the Tourism Training Forum Wales 2006 for Visit Wales
Environmental Satellite Accounts – Scoping Study 2006 (with DTZ) for WAG

Selected Publications

Less and less favoured? Britain's regions in the energy crunch, Environment and Planning A 2010, volume 42, pages 3006 - 3022

Tourism Satellite Accounts For Regions? A Review Of Development Issues And An Alternative, Economic Systems Research, 1469-5758, Volume 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 341 – 358 (with Max Munday)

Assessing the Impact of Tourism in Regions: Towards a Holistic Analysis?” Asia-Pacific Journal of Input-Output, forthcoming, 2009

"The Embeddedness of Tourism-Related Activity: A Regional Analysis of Sectoral Linkages" Urban Studies, forthcoming, December 2009 (with M. Munday & M. Beynon)

“Top Down Or Bottom Up? Issues In The Development Of Sub-National Tourism Satellite Accounts” Current Issues in Tourism forthcoming, 2008 (with M. Munday and A. Roberts)

"Assessing the Impact of a Major Sporting Event: The Role of Environmental Accounting" Tourism Economics 14.2, 2008 pp. 343-360

Tourism Satellite Accounts and Impact Assessments: Some Considerations (with M. Munday) Tourism Analysis 13.1 2008 pp 53-69

"Exploring The Environmental Consequences Of Tourism: A Satellite Account Approach" Journal of Travel Research 46, 2007 pp. 164-172 (with M Munday)

“The contribution of tourism to the UK economy: Satellite account perspectives” The Service Industries Journal 26(5) pp. 493 – 511 (with J Bryan; M Munday)

"Investigating the Potential of key sectors using multisectoral qualitative analysis: a Welsh case study" Environment and Planning C, 23, 2005, pp 633-656 (with J Bryan & M Munday)
“Major Events, Networks and Regional Development” Regional Studies, 39(2), 2005, pp 171 -186

Activities

UN World Tourism Organisation Committee on TSA and Economics of Tourism
Urban and Regional Economics Seminar Group (Committee Member & Secretary)
Regional Science Association British & Irish Section (Committee Member 2004-8)
EURNEST European Association of Sports Economists
Scholar of the Advanced Institute of Management (AIM)
Cynnal Cymru Economists Reference Group