Dr. Ted Manning is President of Tourisk Inc., an international consulting firm providing services in destination planning and management, indicators of sustainability, and environmental management. Former posts include Director of Sustainable Development and Environmental Management of Consulting and Audit Canada, Executive Manager, Sustainable Tourism for Tourism Canada and Development Planner, Caribbean for CIDA . He has worked in more than 40 nations on six continents on methods for planning environmentally and culturally sensitive areas, particularly coastal zones, islands, and tourism destinations. He was lead consultant to the international initiative on indicators of sustainable tourism for the World Tourism Organization and principal author of the 2004 WTO Guidebook: Indicators of Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations. He has also worked as international expert consultant to the UNIDO African coastal tourism program and expert advisor to the WWF sustainable tourism project in Cuba and the Caribbean. He is author of 23 books and over 80 articles on sustainable tourism, sustainable development, environmental planning, environmental management, capacity building, resource management and planning topics in a variety of ecological, economic, geographic tourism and management journals. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Geography Department of Carleton University; has served as a Director of the Black Sea University (Romania), and is a former President of the Canadian Association of Geographers, is a former Commonwealth Scholar to New Zealand, recipient of the Miguel Aleman Medal (Mexico) for his work on tourism planning and management and recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for services to Canada.
