David Beirman

Dr David Beirman

Dr Dav­id Beirman

Dav­id Beir­man is Adjunct Fel­low at the Uni­ver­sity of Tech­no­logy Sydney and co-Chair of the Tour­ism Risk, Crisis and Recov­ery Spe­cial Interest group of the Coun­cil of Aus­tralasi­an Uni­ver­sity Tour­ism and Hos­pit­al­ity Edu­cat­ors. In his spe­cial­ist field of tour­ism, risk, crisis and recov­ery man­age­ment, Dr Beir­man is widely pub­lished and has key­noted con­fer­ences in over 20 countries.

Dav­id is a mem­ber of PATA’s Tour­ism Rap­id Response Taskforce. He has a close work­ing rela­tion­ship with the UN World Tour­ism Organ­isa­tion and is a found­a­tion mem­ber of the Aus­trali­an Depart­ment of For­eign Affairs and Trade’s Smartrav­el­ler Con­sultat­ive Group which advises on gov­ern­ment travel advisor­ies and meas­ures to advance tour­ism safety and secur­ity. He is also a board mem­ber of the Aus­trali­an Travel Careers Council.

Behind Asian tourism’s success story: Risk and marketing

, and December 9, 2025

Behind Asian tourism’s success story: Risk and marketing. Image by Gemini.

Glob­al tourism’s centre of grav­ity has shif­ted to Asia. But how do Asi­an des­tin­a­tions main­tain their spec­tac­u­lar growth amidst nat­ur­al dis­asters, pan­dem­ics, and geo­pol­it­ic­al instability? 

Dr Dav­id Beir­man and Dr Jeff Wilks reveal the strategies behind the region’s resi­li­ence in their upcom­ing book, ‘Risk and Tour­ism Mar­ket­ing in Asia’. And Bernie Rosen­bloom shares key find­ings from his chapter on Laos.

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