CQU Associate Professor Gayle Jennings has accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the 'Journal of Travel Research'.

The 'Journal of Travel Research' is considered one of the two pre-eminent international tourism journals (the other being 'Annals of Tourism').

"This invitation ... reflects my respect for your work," wrote Professor Rick Purdue, Editor of the 'Journal of Travel Research', Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado - Boulder, USA.

"I hope your institution recognises and values this service to our field," he added.

The journal is associated with the Travel and Tourism Association, TTRA, of which Associate Professor Jennings has been an active member since 2000.

Associate Professor Jennings has co-facilitated internationally-focused travel and tourism research panel sessions at the 2003 and 2004 Annual TTRA conference.

A co-recipient of the 2001 Best Paper Award at the 32nd Travel and Tourism Research Association conference, Associate Professor Jennings was invited in 2004 to be a member of the Travel and Tourism Research Association Conference Paper Review Committee.

She has also been a member of the Judging Panel for the Best Poster Award at the 2003 and 2004 Travel and Tourism Research Association conferences.

Associate Professor Jennings attributes her invitation and appointment to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Travel Research to such participation and to the subsequent recognition and respect by her peers.

Founded over 40 years ago as the first scholarly journal in North America focused exclusively on travel and tourism research, The Journal of Travel Research gives researchers, educators, and professionals information and reflects the worldwide importance of tourism both economically and socially.