Professor Chris Ryan has been at the University of Waikato since 1998, having arrived from his previous post of Professor of Tourism at the Northern Territory University. Chris is the editor of 'Tourism Management', has written well over 100 academic journal articles, book chapters and conference papers and some books. In 1999 he was appointed to the APEC Tourism Minister's Advisory Committee by the Korean Social Science Association for Tourism for the 2000 APEC Tourism Minister's conference, and again for the 2004 APEC Tourism Ministers' Conference held in Chile by the APEC Centre for Sustainable Tourism. Other international work includes work for the World Tourism Organisation. Within New Zealand he has completed work for Tourism New Zealand, the Ministry of Tourism, Tourism Auckland, Tourism Waikato and individual private sector organisations. One of these pieces of work, in 2004, required a review of New Zealand's Tourism Research Strategy on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism. His experiences range from work involved in helping to establish a World Heritage Site to advising on pricing for a jet boat operation. Chris is an Hononary Professor of the University of Wales and visits the Centre for Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Wales Institute at Cardiff on an annual basis. He is interested in research methods and epistemologies, and in tourist behaviours and the consequences of those behaviours in terms of impacts - social, psychological and environmental; and in the business organisations that shape those tourist experiences. His social science background is in economics and psychology having degrees from London, Nottingham, Nottingham Trent and Aston Universities.

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• 1. IntroductionChris RyanActs of Resource Management2. IntroductionChris Ryan3. Echoes of War: Battlefield TourismBruce Prideaux4. It’s just a bloody field! Approaches, opportunities and dilemmas ofInterpreting English battlefieldsMark Piekarz5. A Proposed Code of Conduct for War Heritage SitesTeresa Leopold6. Jinggangshan Mountain - A Paradigm of China’s Red TourismGu Huimin, Chris Ryan and Zhang WeiActs of Silence7. IntroductionChris Ryan8. Post Colonial Representations of Japanese Military Heritage:Political and Social aspects of battlefield tourism in the Pacificand East AsiaMalcolm Cooper9. The Battles of Rangiriri and Batouche – amnesia and memory.Chris Ryan10. Seventy years of waiting: a turning point for interpreting theSpanish civil war?Hugh Smith11. The Legerdemain in the Rhetoric of Battlefield Museums:Historical Pluralism and Cryptic Parti PrisCraig WightActs of Discovery and Rediscovery12. IntroductionChris Ryan13. World War II and Tourism Development in Solomon IslandsCharlie Panakera14. Xiamen and Kinmen – from cross-border strife to shopping tripsLi-Hui Chang and Chris Ryan15. Hot war tourism: the live battlefield and the ultimate adventure holidayMark PiekarzActs of Imagination16. IntroductionChris Ryan17. Cambridge Armistice Day Celebrations – making a carnival of warand the reality of play.Chris Ryan and Jenny Cave18. Re-fighting the Eureka Stockade: managing a dissonant battlefieldWarwick Frost19. Re-enacting the Battle of Aiken - honour redeemedChris RyanActs of Remembrance20. IntroductionChris Ryan21. Yorktown and Patriots Point, Charleston, South Carolina –interpretation and personal perspectivesChris Ryan22. Romanticising Tragedy: Culloden battle site in ScotlandFiona McLean, Mary-Catherine Garden and Gordon Urquhart23. Forts Sumter and Moultrie – summer cruise into a catalyst for warChris Ryan24. Synthesis and antithesisChris Ryan