Institut für Ethnologie und Ethnologische Sammlung

Dr. Baromey Neth

Head of Department of Tourism,
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

  • B.Ed. (Royal University of Phnom Penh)
  • M.A. (Tourism Development, RUPP-UNIBO-UTS’s Tripartite International Graduate Program, Royal University of Phnom Penh)
  • Ph.D. (Agricultural Sciences majoring in Rural Development, University of Kassel, Germany)



E-Mail: baromeyneth@yahoo.com / nbaromey@yahoo.com
Phone: (855) 16 78 38 99 / 17 60 74 64
Fax: (855) 23 88 45 23
Research: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/87466.html

Dr. Baromey Neth is a tourism specialist. He is Head of Tourism Department at the Royal University of Phnom Penh since 2003. His academic and professional research focuses on integrated conservation and development, community economic development, sustainable development, planning, policy, and management issues in tourism as well as on rural development. He is specifically interested in development policy and planning oriented research works which involve the design of sustainable approaches and frameworks that can be applied to help develop and operate responsible tourism in a way that benefits micro and macro economy, conservation of natural and cultural resources, and community development. Dr. Baromey Neth’s teaching and research nuclei could also be found in heritage management and the integration of conventional agricultural economic activities with tourism-related business opportunities that could enhance and ensure sustainable rural livelihoods. Besides teaching and research, he serves as a consultant, the member of the Management Committee of the Cambodian Community-based Ecotourism Network, the member of the EADI Working Group on Environment and Development, and a research papers/articles reviewer.

Dr. Baromey Neth has recently been accepted as a postdoctoral research fellow of the DFG Research Group on Cultural Property at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Georg-August Göttingen, Germany. His research project on “Angkor as World Heritage Site and the Development of Tourism: A Study on Indestination Revenue in the Accommodation Sector in Siem Reap-Angkor Region” is expected to provide country-wide impact and empirical findings on the magnificent role and contribution of Angkor World Heritage Site through tourism accommodation for local economic development and the improvement of the local inhabitants’ living condition.