Simon Hudson

Dr. Hudson is a tourism and hospitality professor at the University of South Carolina. He received his Master of Business Administration from the California State University and his doctoral degree in consumer behavior from the University of Surrey, UK. Prior to working in South Carolina, Dr. Hudson held academic positions at universities in Canada and England, and has worked as a visiting professor in Australia, Austria, Fiji, New Zealand, Aruba, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. He has also taught four times on Semester at Sea, a floating shipboard campus that integrates multiple-country study, interdisciplinary coursework, and hands-on field experiences for meaningful engagement in the global community. Dr. Hudson has written 12 books on subjects such as tourism marketing, hospitality management, customer service, golf tourism, the international ski industry, sports and adventure tourism, and the impact of COVID-19 on travel.