Frédéric Dimanche

Dr Frederic Dimanche

Dr Fre­der­ic Dimanche

Frédéric Dimanche, PhD, is the Dir­ect­or of the Ted Rogers School of Hos­pit­al­ity and Tour­ism Man­age­ment, Toronto Met­ro­pol­it­an Uni­ver­sity (formerly known as Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity), Canada.

After earn­ing his PhD at the Uni­ver­sity of Ore­gon, USA, Dr Dimanche worked in New Orleans, USA and then Nice, France before return­ing to North America.

Frédéric has mul­tiple research interests that range from tour­ist beha­viour to des­tin­a­tion competitiveness.

He is an avid trav­el­ler and loves the outdoors.

Oh, Canada: Reconciliation via Indigenous storytelling, dignity, and ‘dark tourism’

and January 8, 2024
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Can 'dark tourism' help Canada reconcile its past and present? Photo by Taylor Burke: Cedar Lake Ranch, Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) Manitoba.

Can tour­ism — ‘dark tour­ism’ — and the storytelling that it facil­it­ates help Canada and Cana­dians recon­cile their past and look for­ward to a bright­er, more united future? Kel­ley A McClinchey and Frédéric Dimanche explore these themes in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] A rev­el­a­tion of truth For more than 150 years, Canada’s Indigenous […]

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The great realignment: What caused tourism’s labour crisis & how do we fix it?

February 14, 2023
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Hospitality, travel, and tourism is experiencing a labour crisis. Sign image by Gerd Altmann (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/sign-work-attitude-workplace-1020318/

After lay­ing off so many people dur­ing the COVID lock­downs, the travel, tour­ism, and hos­pit­al­ity sec­tors now face a labour crisis. Frédéric Dimanche points to causes and pos­its solu­tions. Last year ended on a pos­it­ive note for the travel & tour­ism industry as it over­came its greatest chal­lenge, the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.  Des­pite the Rus­si­an invasion […]

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