Dr. Michelle McLeod is Acting Programme Director at the Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management, University of the West Indies, Nassau, The Bahamas. Her tourism industry experience spans over 25 years. Dr. McLeod received the Principal’s Award for the Research Project with Greatest Economic Impact for the Faculty of Social Sciences for the project entitled “Open Data and Interactive Community Mapping: Empowering Local Community Tourism” in 2018, the Principal’s Award for Research Project Attracting the Most Research Funds in the Faculty of Social Sciences for the project entitled “Harnessing Open Data to Achieve Development Results in Latin America and the Caribbean” in 2016, and Best Researcher in the Mona School of Business and Management in 2016. Dr. McLeod’s two co-edited books are entitled “Knowledge Networks and Tourism” and “Tourism Management in Warm-water Island Destinations”.
