Joseph is Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, and Associate Dean - International, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Joseph has had a career in the private and public sector, and in academia.

Joseph is a prolific writer, analyst, consultant and a sought-after public speaker, having published 12 books, dozens of research articles, and reports analysing tourism and the wider visitor economy, as well as speaking at events around the globe.

Joseph is presently Co Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Tourism Geographies, and Chair of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Tourism, Leisure and Global Change.

He is a past Co-Chair of the WEF Global Future Council on the Future of Sustainable Tourism, and past Co-Chair, American Association of Geographers Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group.

In 2025, he co-led the UN Tourism 19th Asia-Pacific Executive Training Program for Tourism Policy and Strategy on cultural tourism.

In 2023, he consulted for the Asian Development Bank on tourism development in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

Joseph has received research funding from Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), Australian Research Council (ARC), Tourism Research Australia, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT), Australia Japan Foundation and Australia China Council, among others. Joseph is a Board Member of Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), International Geographical Union (IGU) Tourism Commission, American Association of Geographers Recreation, Tourism and Sport (AAG-RTS) and Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific.

In 2022, Joseph delivered the International Geographical Union (IGU) Distinguished Lecture at the IGU Centennial Congress at the Sorbonne, Paris. Also in 2022, he lectured in Harvard University’s Sustainable Tourism Program and Summer School in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and in the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, University of Surrey, among others.

Joseph earned his PhD at Monash University, Australia, and he presently holds adjunct professorships at Wakayama University (Japan), Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand) and UCSI University (Malaysia). In 2022, he was a visiting fellow at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2022), Barcelona.