Ross Bennett-Cook is a visiting lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Westminster. He contributes to modules in the department of tourism and events management.
His research interests are in the anthropology of tourism; tourist spaces (resorts) and how they are used by both domestic and international visitors, the impacts of tourism on societies and cultures, and relationships between tourists and hosts. His PhD research explores Turkish tourist resorts as places of escapism and refuge during increased authoritarianism elsewhere in the country.