Ramesh Durbarry

Ramesh Durbarry is currently the Director General of the Civil Service College, Mauritius. He was appointed Professor in Tourism and Deputy Director at the Amity Institute of Higher Education, Mauritius. He has worked at the University of Bedfordshire as Head of Department Marketing, Tourism & Hospitality. He was the CEO of the UOM Trust Business School in Mauritius and has also worked at the University of Nottingham as a Research Fellow, Lecturer and then as Associate Professor in Tourism Management/Marketing. He developed the School of Public Sector Policy and Management at the University of Technology, Mauritius and was instrumental in the creation of the School of Sustainable Development and Tourism.

Ramesh's research focuses on tourism and travel, tourism taxation, price sensitivity of tourism, with a keen interest on climate change and sustainable tourism. He has published various articles in leading international journals and has contributed chapters in international books. He has edited and published a scholar book on Research Methods.  He has worked on various projects for organisations such as WTO, UNWTO, EU, UNCTAD, VisitScotland, EMDA, among others and on tourism destinations such as Malta and Cyprus. He has conducted a study with UNITAR/ PAGE on assessing the learning needs for a Green Economy in Mauritius. He is currently undertaking another PAGE project on integrating Green Economy learning into the training of public officers and schoolteachers.