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Tourism Economics Update: Valuing Tourism Economic Contribution

Wednesday 19 September

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Monash Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street
Melbourne

Seminar 1 - 2007

The seventh TRU seminar was held onTuesday 19 June 2007. To view a summary of each presentation, please click on the title below.

Michael McNamara – Operator Liability for Recreation Risk and the Effiectiveness of Risk Management in Managing Legal Liability

Maurice Kane – Sir Ed to AJ: New Zealand's Contested Adventure Culture

Prof Bob McKercher – Is Special Interest Tourism Really Special?

Dr David Dunstan and Dr Tom Heenan – Tourism and Commercial Implications of Australian Football's Move into Asia

Dr Petra Glover – Domestic Tourism Demand in 2021: Implications of Demographic Change

Gary Lacey – The Culture of Safaris: The Influence of Historically Based Perceptions on Contemporary Australian Outback Tourism

Tourism and Media Conference
28 November - 1 December 2006

The second International Tourism and Media Conference, jointly hosted by Monash University, La Trobe University and the University of Otago, was held in Melbourne, Australia during Nov-Dec 2006. The conference reflected upon the broad relationship between tourism and the media and is organised to develop this exciting field of tourism research.

The aim of the conference was to move knowledge forward through the presentation of refereed papers, working papers and discussion that will lead to further research. Sessions will be of sufficient length to facilitate collegial communication, interaction and collaboration, with opportunities for group and individual discussion and debate.

Until proceedings from the conference become available, further enquiries can be made to Glen Croy
email: glen.croy@buseco.monash.edu.au

Conference Program (Updated 17 Nov 2006)

Tourism Research Unit Seminar 2 - 2006

The sixth TRU seminar was held on Tuesday 14 November 2006.To view a summary of each presentation, please click on the title below.

Brent Moyle – The Impacts of Protected Area Tourism on Host Communities: A Tourist’s Perspective

Dr Karen Smith – Recruitment and Selection of Tourism and Event Volunteers

Leah Purvis – National Parks and Community Engagement

Professor Elery Hamilton-Smith – Do We Mean What We Say? A Critical Comment on the Vocabulary of Tourism

Neelu Seetaram – Air Travel and Demand Elasticities to Australia

Dr George Athanasopoulos – Modelling and Forecasting Australian Domestic Tourism

Tourism Research Unit Seminar 1 - 2006

The fifth TRU seminar was held on Thursday 8 June 2006. To view a summary of each presentation, please click on the title below. If there is no file linked below, please contact the researcher directly by clicking on their name.

Liam Smith – Emotional Experiences in Zoos: The Key to Influencing Visitor Behaviour?

Dr Christine Lee – Seasonality in the Tourism Industry

Jennifer Laing – Trends in Tourism-Related Postgraduate Dissertations in Australia and Implications for University Education

Fiona Wheeler – Brand Identity in Rural Tourism Destinations: The Case of North East Victoria, Australia

Kirsty Tumes – Exploring the Nature and Extent of Recreation Conflict

Dr Victoria Peel – Victims, Hooligans and Cash Cows: Representations of International Backpackers
in the Australian Media Over Time

Tourism and Media Conference 2004

Published copies of the Conference Proceedings from the 2004 International Tourism and Media Conference are now out of print. To read the full refereed papers from the first conference, please click on the links below to open a PDF file.

Cover and Contents Page

Refereed Papers
4-14 Beeton, "The More Things Change… A Legacy of Film-Induced Tourism"

15-23 Broad and Smith, "Who Educates the Public About Conservation Issues? Examining the Role of Zoos and the Media"

24-28 Croy, "Teaching Tourism, Image and Media Relationships"

39-50 Davidson, "Tragedy in the Adventure Playground: Narratives of Risk and Responsibility in the Newspaper Reporting of Mountaineering Accidents in New Zealand"

51-60 Lexow and Edelheim, "Effects of Negative Media Events on Tourist’s Decisions"

61-68 Frost, "Reshaping the Destination to Fit the Film Image: Western Films and Tourism at Lone Pine, California"

69-76 Hede and O’Mahony, "The Media and the Development of the Tourism Industry During the 20th and 21st Centuries: An Analysis of Four Noteworthy Cases"

77-85 Laing and Crouch, "Out of This World? Exploring the Contribution of the Media to Expectations of Future Space Tourism Experiences"

86-97 Macionis, "Understanding the Film-Induced Tourist"

98-111 Singh and Best, "Film-Induced Tourism: Motivations of Visitors to the Hobbiton Movie Set as Featured in The Lord Of The Rings"

Refereed Paper – Not in Printed Proceedings
129-140 James and Von Wald, "Using the Media to Re-Invent the ‘Secrets’ Image of South Australia"

Note: TRU members are shown in italics, with links back to their TRU member profile.

To read the abstracts of papers presented at the inaugural International Tourism and Media Conference 2004 please click here.