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Marie-Andrée Delisle holds the Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where she serves as researcher and lecturer while simultaneously operating her tourism development consulting firm since 1988. Her international practice spans over 65 countries, focusing on sustainable tourism product development, experience marketing, and strategic planning for cultural, rural, and community tourism initiatives across Quebec, Canada, and globally.
Her academic credentials include a Master's degree in Tourism Management and Planning from UQAM, with current doctoral research centered on creative tourism. This educational foundation underpins her expertise in bridging heritage conservation with tourism development.
Delisle's research critically examines urban heritage through sustainable tourism frameworks, emphasizing creative tourism models as alternatives to mass tourism. Her work investigates cultural tourism dynamics, community-based heritage activation, and ethical tourism practices while analyzing the intersections of urban identity, built landscapes, and tourism development in post-industrial contexts. She explores how heritage conservation can drive sustainable community development through experiential tourism.
Her most significant recognition is the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage, a competitive federal research award supporting her program on urban heritage mediation and sustainable tourism integration.
As an academic supervisor, Delisle guides graduate students in urban studies and tourism-related research while teaching specialized courses at UQAM including EUT1064 (Urban Heritage of Montreal) and EUR8511 (Urban Identities and Cultural Landscapes). Her influential 2007 publication Is Another Tourism Possible? (co-authored with Louis Jolin) established foundational frameworks for ethical tourism alternatives.
She actively contributes to major research networks including the Laboratory for Spatial Analysis and Mediation of Urban Heritage, Canadian Forum for Public Research on Heritage, PARVI, and Respatrimoni, leading projects on urban heritage in deindustrialized contexts, community heritage development, and heritage tourism planning.