Journal articles

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Facing divergent supply and demand in Australian caravanning: learnings from the evolution of caravan park site-mix options in Tweed Shire (with Rod W. Caldicott), Journal of Vacation Marketing (2013)

The caravan park sector of the Australian leisure accommodation industry currently provides 50% of...

 

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The life cycle of caravan parks in australia: the case of Northern New South Wales (with Rodney W. Caldicott), Australian Geographer (2013)

The caravan park sub-sector of the Australian tourism accommodation industry provides at least half of...

 

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Capturing intangible cultural impacts from tourism on Aboriginal land in Australia’s Kimberley (with Kim Doohan), Tourism Recreation Research (2011)

This paper highlights the gap in current indicator-based approaches to address intangible cultural impacts and...

 

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Environmental and cultural implications of visitor access in the Kimberley region (with Amanda J. Smith, Martin Randall, and Ross Kingston Dowling), Australian Geographer (2011)

The Kimberley coast in Australia's far north-west is the traditional country and home of a...

 

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Visitor management practices and operational sustainability: expedition cruising in the Kimberley, Australia (with Amanda J. Smith and Ross Kingston Dowling), Tourism Management (2011)

Australia’s northwest draws on the area’s environmental and cultural assets for its tourism product and...

 

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Employee engagement with a corporate physical activity program: the global corporate challenge (with Lynnaire Sheridan, Ruth Sibson, Maria Ryan, and Nadine Henley), International Journal of Business Studies (2010)

Employers engage with corporate physical activity programs to foster employee well being with a view...

 

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Is physical activity leisure or work? Exploring the leisure-tourism-physical activity relationship with holidaymakers on Rottnest Island (with Ruth Sibson, Maria M. Ryan, Nadine Henley, and Lynnaire Sheridan), Annals of Leisure Research (2010)

To help overcome preventable health problems in the developed world, the 'active living' concept seeks...

 

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Expanding the destination image: wine tourism in the Canary Islands (with Abel Duarte Alonso and Lynnaire Sheridan), International Journal of Tourism Research (2009)

Tourism to the Canary Islands is centered around competitively priced holidays focused on the sun...

 

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Impacts on Aboriginal spirituality and culture from tourism in the coastal waterways of the Kimberley region, North West Australia (with Amanda J. Smith and Ross Kingston Dowling), Journal of Ecotourism (2009)

The Kimberley coast in Australia's far northwest stretches from Broome, Western Australia, for over 3000...

 

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The challenge of preserving rural industries and traditions in ultra-peripheral Europe: evidence from the Canary Islands (with Abel Duarte Alonso and Lynnaire Sheridan), Journal of Rural and Community Development (2009)

Demographic, economic, environmental, and political changes shape many rural areas and their communities across Europe....

 

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Wine tourism as a development initiative in rural Canary Island communities (with Lynnaire Sheridan and Abel Duarte Alonso), Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy (2009)

Purpose – Many studies underline the critical relationship between local communities and rural-based industries. However,...

 

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Importance of tasting rooms for Canary Islands' wineries (with Abel Duarte Alonso and Lynnaire Sheridan), British Food Journal (2008)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the tasting...

 

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Maintaining momentum: the challenge of a workplace physical activity program to sustain motivation and activity (with Nadine Henley, Lynnaire Sheridan, Ruth Sibson, and Maria M. Ryan), Journal of Research for Consumers (2008)

Physical inactivity is one of the major contributors to ill health and, hence, productivity costs...

 

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Wine tourism in the Canary Islands: an exploratory study (with Abel Duarte Alonso and Lynnaire Sheridan), PASOS. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural (2008)

Wine tourism is experiencing significant development in both new and old European wine regions. In...

 

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Recovery of alpine herbfield on a closed walking track in the Kosciuszko Alpine Zone, Australia (with Catherine M. Pickering), Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (2006)

Human use of arctic and alpine environments can result in damage to the natural vegetation...

 

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Recovery of alpine vegetation from grazing and drought: data from long term photoquadrats in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia (with Catherine Marina Pickering), Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research (2005)

Recovery of tall alpine herbfields from livestock grazing and drought were examined using 30, 0.6...

 

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Effects of grazing, tourism and climate change on the alpine vegetation of Kosciuszko National Park (with Catherine M. Pickering), The Victorian Naturalist (2001)

Activities in the past (grazing), present (tourism) and future (tourism and potential climate change) have...

 

Books

Monitoring alpine vegetation change, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2011)

The alpine zone in Australia's Snowy Mountains has important economic, cultural and ecological values. It...

 

Tourism and the Kimberley coastal waterways: a review of environmental and cultural aspects of expedition cruising along the Kimberley coast, Western Australia: photobook (with Charmaine Williams), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2008)

This is an overview of a photobook designed to complement a technical report. The photobook...

 

Book chapters

Visiting the roof of Australia: opportunities and challenges for geotourism (with Catherine M. Pickering), Global geotourism perspectives (2010)
 

Case studies

Marketing wine and wine tourism in the ‘fortunate islands': case study (with Abel Duarte Alonso and Lynnaire Sheridan), Entrepreneurship and small business management in the hospitality industry (2009)
 

Theses

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Monitoring vegetation change in the Kosciuszko alpine zone, Australia, PhD thesis, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld. (2004)

This thesis examined vegetation change over the last 43 years in Australia's largest contiguous alpine...

 

Factors influencing the density of Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae) in subtropical rainforest, Honours thesis, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld. (1998)

A study conducted in Springbrook and Lamington National Parks by
Scherrer (1998) attempted to identify factors...

 

Conference publications

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Programme monitoring and evaluation in volunteer tourism: towards a critical approach (with Jessica Taplin and Dianne Dredge), Tourism and global change: on the edge of something big: CAUTHE 2013 Conference handbook and book of abstracts (2013)

The practices of volunteer tourism organisations and volunteer tourists are coming under increasing scrutiny due...

 

Assessing sustainable visitor capacity for small island destinations: the case of Rottnest Island, Australia (with Jeremy Northcote and James Macbeth), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2010)

Small island destinations present some unique challenges when it comes to visitor management, such as...

 

Back to the future: overcoming the fear to engage, Joint Tourism Research Seminar (2010)

In Australia and many parts of the world, protected area managers face the challenge of...

 

Expedition cruising along Australia's remote Kimberley coast (with Ross Kingston Dowling and A J. Smith), Second International Cruise Conference: The cruise industry: emerging issues, problems and solutions (2010)

Expedition Cruising is growing rapidly around the world. One emerging destination is the Kimberley Coast...

 

Because numbers do matter: refining the sustainable visitor capacity framework (with Jeremy Northcote and James Macbeth), The University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) (2009)

Visitation to natural areas continues to raise an array of management challenges despite the availability...

 

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Expedition cruising in Australia: proactive steps towards change for sustainability (with Amanda Smith and Ross Kingston Dowling), CAUTHE 2009: see change: tourism & hospitality in a dynamic world (2009)
 

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Tourism research to tourism practice: the need for adaptive institutions in Western Australia's Ningaloo region (with Kelly Chapman, Pierre Horwitz, and Jeremy Northcote), CAUTHE 2009: See Change; Tourism & Hospitality in a Dynamic World (2009)

The Ningaloo Collaboration Cluster (NCC) conducts research to develop research-backed management options that sustain the...

 

“I think it is fun because of where you are‟: people's experiences of physical activity on Rottnest Island, WA (with Ruth Sibson, Maria Ryan, Lynnaire Sheridan, Justine Nagorski, Nadine Henley, and Raguragavan Ganeshasundaram), Conference Program and Abstracts: 8th Biennial ANZALS Conference - Leisure is the key: Unlocking people and communities (2008)

Many holiday destinations provide people with different social, cultural and natural environments that promote opportunities...

 

Managing tourists on the top of Australia: past, present and future challenges (with Catherine Marina Pickering), Inaugural Global Geotourism Conference: Australia, 17-20 August, Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia: conference proceedings (2008)
 

Managing cultural and environmental impacts of expedition cruising along Australia's remote Kimberley Coast (with Amanda J. Smith and Ross Kingston Dowling), Parks and Protected Areas Forum (2007)
 

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Managing visitor impacts along Australia's remote Kimberley coast: the forgotten dimension of balancing country (with Amanda J. Smith and Ross Kingston Dowling), Exploring the nature of management: proceedings of the third international conference on monitoring and management of visitor flows in recreational and protected areas (2006)
 

Restoration of alpine herbfield vegetation on a closed walking track in the Australian Alps (with Catherine Marina Pickering), Ecological Earth Sciences in Mountain Areas Conference (2002)
 

Walking track recovery: the restoration timeframe of a closed walking track in the Australian Alps (with Catherine Marina Pickering), Celebrating Mountains: An International Year of Mountains Conference (2002)
 

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Choosing well when providing infrastructure (with Stuart Johnston and Catherine Marina Pickering), Abstracts: Fenner Conference: nature tourism and the environment (2001)

The popularity of nature tourism destinations can threaten the environment the attraction is based on....

 

The legacy of old tracks: a case study from the Kosciuszko alpine zone, New South Wales, Australia (with Catherine Marina Pickering), Fenner Conference on Nature Tourism and the Environment (2001)
 

Long-term vegetation transects in the Kosciuszko alpine zone: an update, Australian Institute of Alpine Studies Annual Conference (2000)
 

Vegetation changes in the Kosciuszko alpine zone: evaluation of long-term vegetation transects (with D J. Wimbush and A B. Costin), ESA 2000: Ecology in a rapidly changing world (2000)
 

Effects of human disturbance on vegetation of the Kosciuszko Alpine Zone, First Annual Meeting of the Australian Institute of Alpine Studies (1999)

The vegetation of the alpine zone of Kosciuszko National Park has been exposed to various...

 

Past, present and future of the roof of Australia (with Catherine Marina Pickering), Tourism Outlook Conference: Practical Research for a Sustainable Tourism Industry (1999)
 

Reports

Point Fraser monitoring and evaluation program 2010 report, Mine Water and Environment Research/ Centre for Ecosystem Management Report No. 2010-9 (with Mark A. Lund, Michelle Newport, Eddie van Etten, Robert Davis, and Clint D. McCullough), Edith Cowan University (2010)
 

Rottnest sustainable visitor capacity project: final report (with Jeremy Northcote and James Macbeth), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2010)
 

Rottnest sustainable visitor capacity project: phase I report (with Jeremy Northcote and James Macbeth), Edith Cowan University (2009)
 

Global corporate challenge qualitative research project: the effect of a workplace team initiative on participants' motivation to sustain a physical activity program (with Nadine Henley, Ruth Sibson, Lynnaire Sheridan, Susanne Bahn, Maria Ryan, and Raguragavan Ganeshasundaram), Edith Cowan University (2008)

Physical inactivity is one of the major contributors to ill health and, hence, productivity costs...

 

Tourism and the Kimberley coastal waterways: environmental and cultural aspects of expedition cruising (with Amanda J. Smith and Ross Kingston Dowling), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2008)

The overall objective of this report is to provide an overview of current tourism activities...

 

The assessment of pre and post 2003 wildfire data collected from subalpine transects in Kosciuszko National Park, report no. 35 (with D J. Wimbush and G Wright), School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (2004)
 

Location of the immature stages of Culicoides molestus in intertidal sand, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management (1998)