Brent Moyle BBus/BCom(Monash), BBus/BCom(Hons)(Monash), PhD(Monash) Dr Brent Moyle’s PhD research, funded by the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre, focused on Host-Guest interaction on Australian islands. During his PhD Brent also worked as a researcher for the Tourism Research Unit at Monash University contributing to numerous projects relating to natural and protected areas, specially focusing on marketing, interpretation, visitor behaviour and strategic partnerships. He has also collaborated on several projects for the University of Queensland and Southern Cross University. Brent’s research interests include protected area management, visitor communication, the impacts of tourism on communities and the environment, behaviour change, policy and planning, amateur athletes engaged in serious leisure, as well as tourism postgraduate dissertations. Brent’s research has been published in several internationally recognised journals including Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Analysis and the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. Brent is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University as is working on an ARC Linkage project titled: Promoting and Managing National Parks into the 21st Century. The project aims to improve our understanding of the place of parks in society, building on and improving theories, methodologies and instruments for positioning and managing parks and visitors to parks.
Journal articles
Strategic issues in the Australian tourism industry: a 10-year analysis of national strategies and plans (with Lisa M. Ruhanen and Char-Lee J. McLennan), Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research (2013)
Predicting future events, trends and issues that may affect the tourism industry is not an...
Visitor's perceptions of tourism impacts: Bruny and Magnetic Islands, Australia (with Betty Weiler and Glen Croy), Journal of Travel Research (2013)
Tourism on islands, as elsewhere, can have positive and negative economic, environmental, and sociocultural impacts....
Counter-factual scenario planning for long-range sustainable local-level tourism transformation (with Char-Lee McLennan, Tien Duc Pham, Lisa M. Ruhanen, and Brent W. Ritchie), Journal of Sustainable Tourism (2012)
Many traditionally agricultural dependent economies have transformed towards service industries, such as tourism. This transformation...
Disciplines that influence tourism doctoral research: the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (with Betty Weiler and Char-lee McLennan), Annals of Tourism Research (2012)
This paper examines the disciplinary influence and the extent of multidisciplinary doctoral research in...
Community perceptions of tourism: Bruny and Magnetic Islands, Australia (with W Glen Croy and Betty Weiler), Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research (2010)
Tourism is increasingly perceived as important for island sustainability, though it also has impacts. Impacts...
Book chapters
Sustainable host-guest interactions on islands: Bruny and Magnetic Islands (with W Glen Croy and Betty Weiler), Island tourism: sustainable perspectives (2011)
With more than 100,000 islands scattered across the globe, approximately one in ten people in...
Book reviews, Newsletters
Managing outdoor recreation: case studies in the national parks, Annals of Tourism Research (2013)
Book review of:
Manning, RE & Anderson, LE 2012, Managing outdoor recreation: case studies in...
Assessing visitor expectations of contact with staff at Cape Byron State Conservation Area (with J Schielphack and Betty Weiler), Research Connections Newsletter (2012)
The aim of this study is to examine visitor expectations regarding the level of staff...
Positioning parks to meet the needs of 21st century society (with Betty Weiler), Research Connections Newsletter (2012)
Theses
Host-guest interaction on Bruny and Magnetic Islands, Australia, PhD thesis, Monash University (2009)
Islands are integral to the earth‘s biodiversity, with their distinct environments offering a haven for...
Visitor satisfaction in natural and protected areas: a case study of Port Campbell National Park, Honours thesis, Monash University (2005)
Conference Presentations
The contribution of geography and economics to doctoral tourism research in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (with Betty Weiler and Char-Lee J. McLennan), 2nd Interdisciplinary Tourism Research Conference (2012)
Managers’ perceptions of the benefits projected by Australian parks agencies (with Betty Weiler), 18th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management: linking the north and south: responding to environmental change (2012)
Tourism, leisure and recreation in national parks offer a wide variety of benefits to visitors,...
Positioning parks to meet the needs of 21st century society (with Betty Weiler and S Moore), The 6th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas (MMV) (2012)
Risk and return: amateur triathletes' reactions to the cancellation of Ironman New Zealand 2012 (with Matthew James Lamont and Millicent Kennelly), Lamont, MJ, Kennelly, M & Moyle, BD 2012, 'Risk and return: amateur triathletes' reactions to the cancellation of Ironman New Zealand 2012', paper presented to Sport innovation & engagement: Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) 18th Annual Conference (2012)
The contribution of tourism to healthy, active and sustainable communities (with Betty Weiler and W Glen Croy), TAFISA, Department of Management, Monash University (2009)
Reports, presentations
A synthesis of doctoral tourism research in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (with Betty Weiler and Char-Lee J. McLennan), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management PhD Workshop (2012)
Amateur triathletes and event travel careers: motivations and constraints negotiation (with M. Kennelly, Matthew James Lamont, and Erica Wilson), UQ, Griffith, Bond and SCU Joint Seminar Series (2012)
An annotated bibliography of the benefits of parks: stage 1: technical report (with Betty Weiler and J Schielphack), Report to Parks Victoria, the Department of Environment and Conservation, the Office of Environment and Heritage and the Parks Forum (2012)
Managers’ perceptions of the benefits of leisure and recreation in parks projected by NSW NPWS (with Betty Weiler), Board of Directors at the Office of Environment and Heritage (2012)