Geography Department NEWS Release

UNCG GEOGRAPHY PROFESSOR RETURNS
AFTER RESEARCH IN UNITED KINGDOM

GREENSBORO — Dr. Keith G. Debbage, associate professor of geography at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has recently returned from a 2000 fall research leave in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Keith Debbage

Debbage was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Travel and Tourism at the University of Northumbria and a visiting researcher in the School of Management Studies at the University of Surrey. During his stay in the United Kingdom, Debbage published an article in the "Journal of Air Transport Management" and contributed a chapter in an edited booked entitled "Reflections on International Tourism: Management, Marketing and the Political Economy of Travel and Tourism." His primary research interests were focused on how regulatory and infrastructural constraints impede air transportation traffic volume across the north Atlantic with special attention to aviation bilaterals and airport landing slot policy.

Debbage also participated in a major international conference held at Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom. The conference titled, "Tourism 2000: A Time for Celebration?", involved nearly 200 speakers from over 30 countries. Debbage was also an invited guest speaker to the Patrick Geddes Research Seminar Series conducted by the School of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

A UNCG faculty member since 1988, Debbage does research on the airlines and travel industries. He has written numerous articles for local newspapers and journal articles relating to the impact those two industries have on economic development. He is a graduate of the University of Dundee, Scotland, received his master's from the University of Surrey, England, and his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia.
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