ALAN A. LEW, PHD, AICP

Alan A. Lew,  Ph.D., AICP

Professor Emeritus (retired)

Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5016, USA

Founding Editor-in-Chief

​Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Place, Space and Environment

​Published by Routledge / Taylor & Francis, UK

THIS IS MY PRE-RETIREMENT WEBSITE
- I retired in mid-2019 and rarely update this website
- I also rarely check my old alan.lew@nau.edu email address

NEW (August 2025):

• This is the text of a presentation I was invited to give at the AAG annual conference in Honolulu in April 2024, published in Tourism Geographies in November 2024. Slides from the presentation are on the "Presentation" tab above:

  • Why travel?: life explorations and ‘Tourism Geographies’ in a world of travel <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2423160>

• Here are some commentaries on my April 2024 presentation, published in Tourism Geographies in August 2025:

  • Making tourism geographies: a tribute to Alan A. Lew’s lifework <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2025.2546542>