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Affiliated Researchers

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Individual Researchers

  • Albrecht, Julia - Department of Tourism Management, Victoria University of Wellington  
  • Booth, Kay - Lindus Consulting, Christchurch  
  • Campbell-Price, Margie - School of Education, University of Otago 
  • Carnicelli Filho, Sandro - Department of Tourism, University of Otago  
  • Cohen, Scott - Centre for Event & Sport Research, University of Bournemouth  
  • Farminer, Andrea - Department of Tourism, University of Otago  
  • Higham, James - Department of Tourism, University of Otago  
  • Kane, Maurice  
  • Kjeldsberg, Magnus - Northern Norway Tourist Board  
  • Lau, Sze-En - Department of Tourism, University of Otago  
  • Lovelock, Kirsten - School of Pharmacy, University of Otago  
  • Maher, Pat - Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management, University of Northern British Columbia  
  • Marinho, Alcyane - Department of Physical Education, Santa Catarina State University  
  • Mitchell, Rob - Department of Marketing, University of Otago  
  • Nicholls, Jane  
  • Reis, Arianne - Southern Cross University 
  • Schänzel, Heike - Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington  
  • Shelton, Eric - Department of Tourism, University of Otago  
  • Tarrant, Michael - Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia  
  • Taylor, Steve - University of Highlands and Islands Fort William Scotland  
  • Zou, Kevin  

    • Professor James Higham

    James Higham

    James Higham is Professor of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests focus on various aspects of tourism and environmental change, including tourist interactions with wildlife, tourism and wilderness management and the relationship between tourism and climate change. His research publications have addressed tourism and wildlife dynamics in the case of colonial nesting sea birds, visitor perceptions of wilderness and the management of tourist interactions with cetaceans based on an understanding of spatial ecology. His empirical research in these areas has been published in journals serving both the natural and social sciences such as Tourism Management, Current Issues in Tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Ecotourism and Conservation Biology.

    Contact details

    James Higham
    Department of Tourism
    University of Otago, Dunedin.

    Research Interests Related to CRR

    • Tourism and Environmental Change
    • Tourist Interactions with Wildlife
    • Tourism and Wilderness Management

    Selected Recent Publications

    Books

    • Hinch, T.D. & Higham, J.E.S. (2004). Sport Tourism Development. Aspects of Tourism Book Series. Channel View Publications: Clevedon.
    • Higham, J.E.S. (ed.) (2007). Critical issues in ecotourism: understanding a complex tourism phenomenon. Oxford: Elsevier.
    • Higham, J.E.S. & Lück, M. (Eds) (2007). Marine wildlife and tourism management: Insights from natural and social sciences. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
    • Hall, C.M. & Higham, J.E.S. (Eds). (2005). Tourism, recreation and climate change: International perspectives. Aspects of Tourism Book Series. Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
    • Higham, J.E.S. (Ed) (2005). Sport Tourism Destinations: Issues, opportunities and analysis. Oxford: Elsevier.

    Journal Articles

    • Higham, J.E.S. & Bejder, L. (2008). Managing wildlife-based tourism: Edging slowly towards sustainability? Current Issues in Tourism 11(1):63-74.
    • Higham, J.E.S., Lusseau, D. & Hendry, W. (2008). The viewing platforms from which animals are observed in the wild: A discussion of emerging research directions. Journal of Ecotourism 7(2/3):132-14. (Special Issue on Australian wildlife tourism).
    • Higham, J.E.S. & Lusseau, D. (2007). Urgent need for empirical research into whaling and whale-watching. Conservation Biology 21(2): 554-558.
    • Higham, J.E.S. & Hinch, T.D. (2006). Sport and tourism research: A geographic approach. Sport & Tourism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 11(1): 31-49.
    • Higham, J.E.S. (2005). Sport tourism as an attraction for managing seasonality. Sport in Society 8(2): 238-262 (Special Issue on sport tourism).
    • Hinch, T.D. & Higham, J.E.S. (2005). Sport, tourism and authenticity. European Sports Management Quarterly. 5(3): 245-258 (Special Issue).
    • Finkler, W. & Higham, J.E.S. (2004). The human dimensions of whale watching: An analysis based on viewing platforms. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 9(1): 103-117.
    • Lusseau, D. & Higham, J.E.S. (2004). Managing the impacts of dolphin-based tourism through the definition of critical habitats: The case of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.) in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Tourism Management 25(5): 657-667.

    For more information please visit the School of Business Tourism Website