Associate Professor Jeremy Buultjens BEc(Monash), DipEd(GIAE), BA(NE), GradDipAgEc(NE), MBus(UNE), PHD(Griff) Associate Professor Jeremy Buultjens is the Director of the Regional Futures Institute, located in the School of Commerce and Management at Southern Cross University. He is also the Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic and Social Policy. He has taught in a number of units ranging from Economics and Industrial Relations through to Tourism Planning and Indigenous Tourism. Jeremy's research interests include Indigenous entrepreneurship, regional development and tourism, tourism in protected areas, and employment relations. His publications have appeared in Tourism Management, Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Employment Studies, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Labour and Industry and the Australasian Journal of Business and Social Enquiry. He has also presented widely at national and international conferences. Jeremy has conducted numerous consultancies. His clients have included the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office, W.A. Department of Conservation and Land Management, and the Northern Rivers Area Consultative Committee.
Journal Articles
Synergies between Australian indigenous tourism and ecotourism: possibilities and problems for future development (with Deborah Gale and Nadine E. White), Journal of Sustainable Tourism (2010)
This paper examines and finds synergies between indigenous tourism and ecotourism in Australia. Both were...
Trust perceptions of online travel information by different content creators: some social and legal implications (with Stephen Burgess, Carmine Sellitto, and Carmen Cox), Information Systems Frontiers (2009)
Consumers are increasingly turning to the online environment to provide information to assist them in...
Putting the brakes on: impediments to the development of independent bicycle tourism in Australia (with Matthew James Lamont), Current Issues in Tourism (2009)
Cycle tourism was identified in the Australian federal government’s 2003 Tourism White Paper as a...
The Australian hospitality industry's response to formalised enterprise and individual bargaining prior to the Rudd Government (with Grant Cairncross), Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (2009)
Formalised enterprise bargaining has been part of the industrial relations framework in Australia since 1991...
The role of user-generated content in tourists' travel planning behavior (with Carmen Cox, Stephen Burgess, and Carmine Sellitto), Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management (2009)
This article reports on research that investigates how websites containing user-generated content (UGC) are used...
Books
Sustainable regional tourism destinations: best practice for the sustainable management, development and marketing of regional tourism destinations (with M Wray, D Dredge, Carmen Cox, M Hollick, D Lee, and M Pearlman), Sustainable regional tourism destinations: best practice for the sustainable management, development and marketing of regional tourism destinations (2009)
Training needs of the hospitality industry (with Paul A. Whitelaw, Paul Barron, Grant Cairncross, and Michael Davidson), Training needs for the hospitality industry (2009)
From lessees to partners: exploring relationships between NSW NPWS and private visitor facility providers (with Noah Nielsen and Erica Wilson), School of Commerce and Management Papers (2008)
Indigenous community development and self employment: with case studies in eco-tourism in North Australia (with Don Fuller and Myles Howard), School of Commerce and Management Papers (2007)
Mining and Indigenous tourism in Northern Australia (with David Brereton, Paul Memmott, Joseph Reser, Linda Thomson, Tanuja Barker, Tim O'Rourke, and Catherine Chambers), School of Commerce and Management Papers (2007)
Book Chapters
A study of Web 2.0 tourism sites: a usability and web features perspective (with Carmine Sellitto, Stephen Burgess, and Carmen Cox), Tourism informatics: visual travel recommender systems, social communities, and user interface design (2009)
Economics of Australian casinos, Casino Industry in Asia Pacific: Development, Operations and Impact (2006)
Public sector initiatives for Aboriginal small business development in tourism (Chapter) (with Iain Waller, Sasha Graham, and Dean B. Carson), Indigenous Tourism: the Commodification and Management of Culture (2005)
Indigenous people and enterprise bargaining: a case for concern?, Workplace Reform and Enterprise Bargaining: Issues, Cases and Trends (1999)
Small business and labour market deregulation (Revised), Workplace Reform and Enterprise Bargaining: Issues, Cases and Trends (New edition) (1996)
Editorials
Generation Y and work in the tourism and hospitality industry: problem? What Problem? (with Grant Cairncross), Centre for Enterprise Development and Research Occasional Paper (2007)
It appears that there are employers who believe that Generation Y employees are often problematic....
Theses
Industrial relations processes in registered clubs of New South Wales, PhD thesis, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld. (2000)
Industrial relations processes in small business in New South Wales, MA thesis, University of New England (1993)
Conference Presentations
Enterprise bargaining: a comparative study of small to medium businesses in the Australian hospitality and clothing and footwear industries (with Grant Cairncross and M Crowe), Regulation, Deregulation and Re-regulation: the Scope of Employment Relations in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the the 11th Annual International Employment Relations Association Conference (2009)
Local economic development and remote desert settlements (with Ann Ingamells and Sarah Holcombe), Building Community Centred Economies: Dialogue for Action: International Association for Community Development (IACD) & Community Development Queensland (CD QLD) Conference (2009)
User-generated content (UGC) in tourism: benefits and concerns of online consumers (with Stephen Burgess, Carmine Sellitto, and Carmen Cox), Information Systems in a Globalising World: Challenges, Ethics and Practices: Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (2009)
This paper examines the views of travel consumers that search for information online in relation...
Benefits and challenges of managing tourism partnerships within protected areas: a case study of five commercial leases in New South Wales national parks (with Erica Wilson and Noah Nielsen), Where the 'bloody hell' are we: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) Conference (2008)
Indigenous tourism: the possibilities into the future (with Nadine E. White), Proceedings of the Desert Knowledge Symposium 2008 - Developing Desert Directions: Rethinking the Future (2008)
Indigenous Australians in remote Australia. In the next sections Indigenous tourism and the supply and...