Chris Bottrill

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About Chris Bottrill

Chris Bottrill is Associate Vice President, International, at Capilano University, North Vancouver, Canada. Chris has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Global and Community Studies and acting Dean of the Faculties of Fine and Applied Arts, and Business and Professional Studies, along with acting Vice President, Academics and Provost. Recently, he was the Chair of the BC Heads of International group consisting of 23 public universities and colleges in British Columbia, and the Chair of the Asia Pacific Travel Association (PATA)(2018-20), a global travel and tourism association of over 900 public and private sector organizations focussed on responsible tourism development in the Asia Pacific region. Chris has a background of academic and applied experiences. He has taught in a wide array tourism, business, and adventure management fields in universities in Canada, New Zealand, USA and Austria, and he has completed over 50 tourism development and education projects around the globe. Selected examples include directing the acclaimed Capilano University and Hanoi Open University Vietnam Community Tourism project aimed at protecting ethnic hill tribe culture through tourism, leading a Pacific Asia study on Indigenous Tourism and Human Rights, conducting multiple workshops on institutional leadership in post secondary education for the South East Asia Ministers of Education Organization Regional Training Centre based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and designing and facilitating seven youth symposiums with over 20 universities in the Asia Pacific region. Chris has presented on tourism and education related topics at conferences and forums in China, Canada, USA, Finland, New Zealand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Nepal, and Cambodia. Chris holds a PhD from the Faculty of Commerce and School of Management at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, an MA Honors in Geography from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ.