Professor in the School of Hospitality, Food, and Tourism Management; Graduate Faculty, University of Waterloo and Griffith University (Australia); Visiting Professor at MCI (Austria), Shandong University (PRC), and Huaqiao University (PRC); 1st Vice-President of the Travel and Tourism Research Association International, Chair of the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership's Metrics Committee, and member of the World Tourism Organization Panel of Tourism Experts. Marion was born in (the former East) Germany and came to Canada as a teenager, completing her secondary and undergraduate education in Stratford and at the University of Waterloo. Before joining the faculty of the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management as its Director in 2003, Marion’s career took her to numerous countries in North America and Europe in the pursuit of industry and government experience. as well as an advanced education. She returned to Canada in 1988 to join the provincial government as its Senior Policy Advisor for Tourism before becoming a faculty member with Ryerson University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Marion currently teaches courses in tourism policy and planning, sustainability, and low carbon tourism. as well as theories of tourism at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Guelph and abroad.