Myra Shackley

Professor of Culture Resource Management and Head of the Centre for Tourism and Visitor Management at Nottingham Business School.

She is also a priest in the Church of England. Part of her current research is concerned with the management of sacred sites as visitor attractions. She has written several books and about two hundred of academic articles and international conference papers. She has been involved into research in sub-Saharan Africa (mostly Namibia but also Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa), West Africa (Mali), Kingdom of Lo (northern Nepal/Tibet), Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh (India), Guyana (consultancy for Esmee Fairbairn Foundation), and Uzbekistan. She has investigated the stories about Yeti creatures, as in her book Still Living?, where she refers to a description of a family of Almas The same subject is the central topic of Wildmen: Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma, written in 1983.