ORCID Profile
0000-0001-5927-2615
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Western Sydney University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society | Impacts of Tourism | Other Studies in Human Society |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare | Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism | Tourism Infrastructure Development
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Publications
Transformative epistemologies for regenerative tourism: towards a decolonial paradigm in science and practice?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2023
Debunking Pacific utopias: Chief Roi Mata's domain and the re-imagining of people and place in Vanuatu
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-02-2015
A Membrane-Tethered Ubiquitination Pathway Regulates Hedgehog Signaling and Heart Development.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: accentuating temporal overtourism
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2019
Realising the Opportunities of Chinese Tourism: A Comparative Study
Publisher: Asia Institute, University of Tasmania
Date: 2021
Tourism and Islandscapes: Cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change
Publisher: Shima Publishing
Date: 04-2016
Community art festivals and sustainable rural revitalisation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-12-2021
Overtourism
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 25-08-2022
Determining Peak Altitude on Maps, Books and Cartographic Materials: Multidisciplinary Implications
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-03-2021
DOI: 10.3390/RS13061111
Abstract: Mountain peaks and their altitude have been of interest to researchers across disciplines. Measurement methods and techniques have changed and developed over the years, leading to more accurate measurements and, consequently, more accurate determination of peak altitudes. This research transpired due to the frequency of misstatements found in existing sources including books, maps, guidebooks and the Internet. Such inaccuracies have the potential to create controversy, especially among peak-baggers in pursuit of climbing the highest summits. The Polish Sudetes Mountains were selected for this study 24 summits in the 14 mesoregions were measured. Measurements were obtained employing the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR), both modern and highly precise techniques. Moreover, to determine the accuracy of measurements, several of the summits were measured using a mobile phone as an additional method. We compare GNSS vs. LiDAR and verify the level of confidence of peak heights obtained by automatic methods from LiDAR data alone. The GNSS receiver results showed a discrepancy of approximately 10 m compared with other information sources examined. Findings indicate that the heights of peaks presented in cartographic materials are inaccurate, especially in lesser-known mountain ranges. Furthermore, among all the mountain ranges examined, the results demonstrated that five of the summits were no longer classed as the highest, potentially impacting tourist perceptions and subsequent visitation. Overall, due to the topographical relief characteristics and varying vegetation cover of mountains, we argue that the re-measuring procedure should comprise two steps: (1) develop high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) based on LiDAR (2) assumed heights should be measured using precise GNSS receivers. Unfortunately, due to the time constraints and the prohibitive costs of GNSS, LiDAR continues to be the most common source of new altitude data.
Responsible Tourism: A New Era of Responsibility?
Publisher: Sarawak Research Society
Date: 2021
Abstract: The discourse on responsible tourism, although not new, has been given a new lease on life in the wake of COVID-19. Before 2020, global tourism mobilities were unparalleled with seemingly little standing in the way of the juggernaut that tourism had become. Typically, tourism is seen through an economic lens – for the jobs it provides and the impetus it gives to the coffers of governments and the wallets of tourism dependent communities. This has not changed since the tourism growth model was spawned in the 1960s and has only intensified through to the era of overtourism. In invoking the term, New Era of Responsibility, it not too subtly suggests that for global tourism, the reframing that needs to take place is urgent and has been expedited by the pandemic of 2020. What is called for has been broached before and if tourism is to be the panacea of the catalogue of things ascribed to it, business as usual is surely not feasible. The call for an epoch where responsibility is assumed reverberates in talking circles that reference the Anthropocene as a time when the urgency to act with greater responsibility is now, more than ever, vital, given that the demands put upon the planet continue to intensify while the requisite attention needed to allow recovery and replenishment, and to stave off system failure, continually deteriorates. Tourism has become entrenched as a lifestyle phenomenon for many, and a livelihood source for as many more. The call for responsible tourism appeals to finding the balance between competing priorities and most importantly, to acknowledge planetary limitations.
Global tourism in crisis: conceptual frameworks for research and practice
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 16-09-2021
Abstract: The aims of this Editorial are twofold: (i) synthesise emergent themes from the special issue (ii) tender four theoretical frameworks toward examination of crises in tourism. The thematic analysis of papers highlights a ersity of COVID-19 related crises contexts and research approaches. The need for robust theoretical interventions is highlighted through the four proposed conceptual frameworks. Crises provides a valuable seam from which to draw new empirical and theoretical insights. Papers in this special issue address the unfolding of crises in tourism and demonstrate how its theorization demands multi and cross-disciplinary entreaties. This special issue is an invitation to examine how global crises in tourism can be more clearly appraised and theorised. The nature of crisis, and the extent to which the global tourism community can continue to adapt remains in question, as dialogues juxtapose the contradictions between tourism growth and tourism sustainability, and between building back better and returning to normal. The appraisal of four conceptual frameworks, little used in tourism research provides markers of the theoretical rigour and novelty so often sought. Beck’s risk society reconceptualises risk and the extent to which risk is manmade. Biopolitics refers to the power over the production and reproduction of life itself, where the political stake corresponds to power over society. The political ecology of crisis denaturalises “natural” disasters and their subsequent crises. Justice complements an ethic of care and values like conative empathy to advance social justice and well-being.
Aboriginal tourism
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
Spiritual tourism: Entrée to the Special Issue
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Carbon emission reduction and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2022
Tourism, the SDGs and partnerships
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-09-2021
The search for spirituality in tourism: Toward a conceptual framework for spiritual tourism
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Cultural ecosystem services and placemaking in peripheral areas: a tourism geographies agenda
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-07-2022
Human flourishing, tourism transformation and COVID-19: a conceptual touchstone
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-05-2020
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-10-2023
Geopolitical anxieties of tourism: (Im)mobilities of the COVID-19 pandemic
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-06-2020
Abstract: Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region.
Peak-bagging and cartographic misrepresentations: a call to correction
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2020
Yoga tourism: Commodification and western embracement of eastern spiritual practice
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Everyday Cycling Mobilities and Tourist Behaviour: The Emergence of Cycle Tourism as COVID-Secure Activity
Publisher: Sarawak Research Society
Date: 31-01-2022
Abstract: The extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have evidently led to increased levels of cycle commuting and cycle tourism closer to and around the home (we refer to this as everyday cycling mobilities). Cycling is a popular tourism pursuit in Japan and in the pandemic era, is acknowledged to be a COVID-secure activity. In response to, and drawing from the theory of planned behaviour, examining the relationship between the COVID-secure perspective and the intention to perform tours via cycling mobilities in Japan is the underlying aim of this exploratory study. Further, analyses are informed by an online survey approach and contextualised with hierarchical multiple regression analyses. Findings emphasise that COVID-secure perspective is negatively associated with intention to tour as part of everyday cycling mobilities, whereas attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioural control show positive association. This has implications for everyday cycling mobilities and cycle tourism. COVID-related advice should be developed and disseminated not only to cycling enthusiasts but also to the general public in order to emphasise and reinforce the COVID-secure nature of this mode of tourism. Consequently, the rise in popularity of everyday cycling mobilities and touring, sounds a clarion call to ensure that any ensuing expansion pays heed to responsible tourism concerns.
Examining vanuatu’s World War II memorial places and events
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-10-2016
Community art festivals and sustainable rural revitalisation
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-09-2022
Visitor diversification in pilgrimage destinations: comparing national and international visitors through means-end
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2021
Tourism in Pacific island countries: A status quo round-up
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-07-2018
DOI: 10.1002/APP5.250
Editorial – Responsible Tourism: A Call to Action for Turbulent Times
Publisher: Asia Business Research Group
Date: 31-08-2020
DOI: 10.14707/AJBR.200080
Colonial heritage and tourism: Ethnic landscape perspectives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-02-2015
Overtourism and degrowth: a social movements perspective
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-09-2019
Mobility Patterns of International Tourists: Implications for Responsible Urban Tourism
Publisher: Sarawak Research Society
Date: 20-01-2021
Abstract: Up until the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid growth of tourism in popular urban destinations around the globe saw the effects of chronic overcrowding and the breaching of acceptable limits of change imposed on local communities. Overtourism became prominent, intensifying lified calls for planning and development regimes that emphasize responsible and sustainable tourism growth. In Japan, the term “tourism pollution” emerged as a response to untrammeled growth in cities like Kyoto, Tokyo and Osaka. Understanding the mobility of international tourists in urban contexts is raised here as one way to come to terms with urban overcrowding, particularly in hotspots where popular attractions predominate. In examining international tourist mobility, we argue that spatial and temporal behaviors can be constructive toward the responsible planning and development of urban tourism. Japan’s second most populated city Osaka is the context for this research with GPS big data collected in partnership with one of the country’s foremost navigation app developers. American, Chinese, and South Korean tourist mobility patterns were observed with the evidence pointing out that overcrowding evident at iconic attractions was largely influenced by public transport networks in the city. Evidently, there were distinct differences between the three groups of tourists highlighting that spatio-temporal behavior varied according to the tourist’s country of origin. The findings from this research are instructive to urban tourism stakeholders including policy makers, destination marketing organizations (DMOs), and public transport providers and can help inform responsible and sustainable urban tourism planning and development.
The Tourism-foreign aid nexus in Vanuatu: Future directions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2011
Tourism and traditional culture: Land diving in Vanuatu
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2013
Geographies of marginalization: encountering modern slavery in tourism
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-08-2018
Roots tourism: Blackbirding and the south sea islander diaspora
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 09-08-2013
DOI: 10.3727/108354213X13673398610574
Abstract: Roots tourism and diaspora travel are inextricably aligned and embody more than just another avenue for the expansion of tourism. This article, using Vanuatu as the context, argues that roots tourism has far broader implications for diaspora, especially in so far as geopolitical relationships between colonial powers and their former outposts are concerned. The return sojourns of Australia's South Sea Islander diaspora are used in this article to highlight the phenomenon of roots tourism. The circumstances surrounding the arrival of the first islanders during what became known as the blackbirding era, beginning in the 1860s through to the early 1900s, is subject to contestation as to whether this constituted free or forced labor. Such narratives are common among diaspora when evaluating the legacy of colonialism, particularly when the specter of exploitation and mistreatment resonates. Roots tourism and the travel of diaspora are aimed at reconciling the ensuing questions of identity, culture, and place. This article argues that roots tourism offers personal relief and restitution as well as contributes to broader sociopolitical advancement between the descendants of the colonized and present-day institutions.
Papua New Guinea
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Date: 2017
Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Date: 2017
Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2020
Inclusive and regenerative urban tourism: capacity development perspectives
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-07-2021
DOI: 10.1108/IJTC-08-2020-0167
Abstract: Using case study analysis, this paper aims to examine the application of capacity development perspectives, critical towards urban tourism that is inclusive and regenerative. The study design used a mixed qualitative methods approach underpinned by the inclusive tourism development framework following Scheyvens and Biddulph (2017). This comprised in-depth interviews, focus groups and observational research. A community-based approach was adopted in a erse cultural and socio-economic field setting. The findings demonstrate that people who are marginalised hold valuable tacit knowledge and unique skills that can complement expert tourism knowledge and contribute to the development of more sustainable places and inclusive communities. This finding challenges claims that capacity development must occur before their participation. Local government, alongside non-government organisations and community groups, were found to have a significant role to play in ensuring that residents and people who are marginalised are included in sustainable tourism development. This study contributes to the burgeoning discourse regarding stakeholder capacity development and readiness for inclusion in urban tourism initiatives. Importantly, regenerative development approaches are applied within the gambit of capacity development making this a unique attempt to integrate stakeholders into the design and implementation of tourism planning processes that uphold inclusive and regenerative priorities.
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