Dr Jim Macbeth

Associate Professor in Tourism
 
Head of School, Social Sciences and Humanities

Qualifications:

• 1986 Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Doctor of Philosophy Thesis title: Ocean Cruising: A Study of Affirmative Deviance
• 1971 Leeds University, Leeds, England Master of Arts
• 1968 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Bachelor of Commerce (Industrial Relations)

Teaching:

• TOU102 Introduction to Travel and Tourism
• TOU301 Tourism Policy and Planning
• TOU302 Tourism Project
• TOU303 Tourism Management

Research Interests, including PhD supervision:

• Tourism: sustainable development; sociology of tourism; community tourism planning
• Tourism: Outback tracks tourism and track management
• 4WD tourism
• Leisure: sociological aspects of leisure
• Sociology: subcultures, social movements
• Tourism: Backpackers, trails and centers
• Tourism: regional tourism planning, including protected areas
• Tourism: Corporate Social Responsibility
• Projects with the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre and the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre

Memberships:

• Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies
• The Australian Sociological Association (past)
• Council of Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE)
• Forum for advocating cultural and ecotourism (FACET)
• Murdoch University Senate, elected staff member 2000-06

Selected Publications:

• Book

  Carson, Dean and Jim Macbeth. 2005 (Eds) Regional Tourism Cases: Innovation in Regional Tourism. Common Ground Publishing, Altona, Vic. Co-authored chapters:

  • Chapter 1 History Matters: Setting the Scene (with Dean Carson)
  • Chapter 9 The Woodland and the Wheatbelt: Tourism partners in Dryandra Country (with Michael Hughes)
  • Chapter 11 Facilitating Work and Play among Backpackers in the Great Southern, Western Australia (with Klaus Westerhausen)
  • Chapter 15 Regional Tourism Systems and the Implications of Innovative Behaviour (with Dean Carson)

• Book Chapters

  Ocean Cruising in Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi (eds), Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. pp. 214-231.

  Planning in Action: A Report and Reflections on Sustainable Tourism in the ex-Shire of Omeo, in Hall, C. Michael, John Jenkins and Geoff Kearsley (eds). Tourism Planning and Policy in Australia and New Zealand: Cases, Issues and Practice: Sydney: Irwin, 1997, pp145-53.

• Journal Articles

  Chok, Stephanie, Jim Macbeth and Carol Warren. 2007. Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation: A Critical Analysis of 'Pro-Poor Tourism' and Implications for Sustainability. CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM Vol. 10, Nos. 2&3, pp. 144-165.

  Randall, Martin, Jim Macbeth and David Newsome. 2006. Investigating the Impacts of Off-road Vehicle Activity in Broome, North-Western Austrlia: a preliminary appraisal. Annals of Leisure Research, Vol 9, Nos 1& 2, pp. 17-42.

  Northcote, Jeremy and Jim Macbeth. 2006.Conceptualising Yield in Sustainable Tourism Development: An Integrated Model.’ Annals of Tourism Research, Vol.33, no. 1, pp. 199-220.

  Hughes, Michael, Jim Macbeth and David Newsome. 2005. Captive Wildlife Tourism in a Natural Setting: Visitor Satisfaction as a Measure of Success at Barna Mia, Western Australia. 2005 Journal of Ecotourism. Vol. 4, No. 2, pp73-91.

  Macbeth, Jim. 2005. Towards an ethics platform for tourism. Annals of Tourism Research. Vol. 32(4), pp. 962-984

  Northcote, Jeremy and Jim Macbeth. 2005. Limitations of Resident Perception Surveys for Understanding Tourism Social Impacts: the Need for Triangulation. Tourism Recreation Research, Vol. 30(2), pp.43-54.

  Hughes, Michael and Jim Macbeth. 2005. Can a Niche Market Captive Wildlife Facility Place a Low Profile Region on the Tourism Map? Tourism Geographies, Vol. 7(3/4), pp. 424 - 44.

  Wegner, Agathe, Susan A. Moore and Jim Macbeth. 2004. Building better collaborative management between protected area managers and tour operators. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Volume 11 Number 2, pp.123-127.

  Macbeth, Jim, Dean Carson and Jeremy Northcote. 2004. Social Capital, tourism and regional development: SPCC as a basis for innovation and sustainability. Current Issues in Tourism. Vol. 7 (6), pp. 502-522.

  Westerhausen, Klaus and Jim Macbeth. 2003. Backpackers and Empowered Local Communities. Natural Allies in the Struggle for Sustainability and Local Control? Tourism Geographies Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 71-86.

  Macbeth, Jim. 2000. Utopian tourists - cruising is not just about sailing in Current Issues in Tourism Vol. 2 (1), pp. 20-34.

  Macbeth, Jim. 1996. Dissonance and paradox in tourism planning - people first? in ANZALS Leisure Research Series, Vol 3. pp2-18.

  Macbeth, Jim. 1994. To sustain is to nurture, to nourish, to tolerate and to carry on: Can tourism?’ TRENDS, Vol. 31 (1), pp. 42-45. (Special edition on sustainable rural tourism development; invited paper by the guest editor.)

  Macbeth, Jim 1992. Ocean cruising: a sailing subculture. The Sociological Review. Vol. 40, #2, May, pp319-343.
  

• Book Reviews

  Contesting the Foreshore. Tourism, Society, and Politics on the Coas. 2004t Jeremy Boissevain and Tom Selwyn, Editors, Amsterdam:Amsterdam University Press. Tourism in Marine Environments Forthcoming.

  Tourism and Hospitality in the 21st Century by A Lockwood and S Medlik, Editors and Hosts and Guests Revisited: Tourism Issues of the 21st Century by Valene L. Smith and Maryann Brent, Editors. Tourism Geographies. Vol. 6 (3), 2004, pp380-388.

  Worldwide Destinations: the Geography of Travel and Tourism by Brian Boniface and Chris Cooper, in Current Issues in Tourism (forthcoming, with Dale Sanders)

  Tourism and the Media. Tourist decision-making, information, and communication. By Christian Neilsen. International Journal of Tourism Research. Vol 5, No. 1, 2003, pp70-73, with David Maguire.

  The Geography of Tourism and Recreation. Environment, place and space. by C Michael Hall and Stephen J. Page. The International Journal of Tourism Research, Vol 3(6), 2001, pp515-16.

  Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices. Sri Lankans and international tourism. by Malcolm Crick Annals of Tourism Research Vol. 26, No. 1, 1999, pp240-2.

  Community Tourism Relationships by P.Pearce, G.Moscardo & G.Ross Annals of Tourism Research. Vol. 25, No. 1, 1998, pp254-6

  Sustainable Tourism: An Australian Perspective by R Harris & N Leiper in The Journal of Sustainable Tourism Vol. 4, No. 4, 1996, pp235-6.

  Tourism and Hospitality in the 21st Century by A Lockwood and S Medlik, Editors and Hosts and Guests Revisited: Tourism Issues of the 21st Century, Valene L. Smith and Maryann Brent, Editors. Reviewed in Tourism Geographies. Vol. 6 (3), 2004, pp380-388.

• Special Research-based Publications

  Achieving Sustainable Local Tourism Management Phase 1 - Practitioners Guide., Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre, Technical Report, 2006, with Dianne Dredge, Dean Carson, Narelle Beaumont Jeremy Northcote and Fiona Richards

  Achieving Sustainable Local Tourism Management Phase 2 - Assessment Tool, Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre, Technical Report, 2006, with Dianne Dredge, Dean Carson, Narelle Beaumont Jeremy Northcote and Fiona Richards

  The Dynamics of a Tourism development: Attitudes, Perceptions and Processes. Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre, Technical Report, 2007. With Christof Pforr, Kath Clark, Joanna Fountain, and David Wood.

  Heritage Drive Trails of the Central Great Southern of Western Australia: The “Heritage of Endeavour” project. Tourism Development in the Central Great Southern. STCRC project report, distributed to the community, 2005. With Michael Hughes. Available for download at <tourism.murdoch.edu.au>

  Tourism Development in the Southern Wheatbelt of Western Australia: From Dryandra Woodland to Dryandra Country. STCRC Technical Report, 2004. With Michael Hughes.

• Other Interests: Collaborative Learning

  Collaborative Learning in Sociology. Final Report to Staff. Feb. 1998. With Sarah Veitch. Perth: Murdoch University. (61 pages)

  Tutor's Guide to Facilitating Collaborative Learning. Feb. 1998. With Sarah Veitch. Perth: Murdoch University. (61 pages)

  A Guide for Students Working in Collaborative Learning Groups. Feb. 1998. With Sarah Veitch. Perth: Murdoch University. (44 pages)

  Collaborative Learning: Working Together in Small Groups. A video teaching aid for use by teachers and learning groups (includes a Users' Guide), Murdoch University. 1996. (with Judy MacCallum) This video is available on DVD. (for more information : http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/slearn/resource/ourmaterials.html )

• Conference Proceedings

  Let’s work together: Protected Area Managers and Tour Operators. CAUTHE 2005 Sharing Tourism Knowledge. 01-06 February, Alice Springs. With Aggie Wegner and Susan Moore (presented by Aggie Wegner).

  The Reef and the Resort: An investigation of visitors’ knowledge and attitudes towards a large-scale development in a remote area of Western Australia. In P. Tremblay & A. Boyle (Eds). Sharing Tourism Knowledge. Proceedings of the 2005 CAUTHE Conference, 01-06 February, 2005, Darwin: Charles Darwin University. (pp. 158-161) With Joanna Fountain, Kath Clark and Christof Pforr (presented by Jim Macbeth)

  Maud’s Landing, The Great Divide. An analysis of policy actors and their influence on the decision to reject the proposed Coral Coast Resort in Western Australia. In P. Tremblay & A. Boyle (Eds). Sharing Tourism Knowledge. Proceedings of the 2005 CAUTHE Conference, 01-06 February, 2005, Darwin: Charles Darwin University. (pp. 363-365) With Christof Pforr, Kath Clark and Joanna Fountain, (presented by Christof Pforr with responses to questions from Christof Pforr and Jim Macbeth for both papers)

  Working -Talking -Connecting in Protected Areas. 12th National Ecotourism Australia Conference: Ecotourism leading the business of sustainability. 08 -12 November 2004, Blue Mountains, NSW. With Aggie Wegner and Susan Moore (presented by A. Wegner)

  Let's talk: Protected Area Managers and Tour Operators. Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre (STCRC) 2004 Industry Forum. 06 October 2004, Perth. With Aggie Wegner and Susan Moore (presented by A. Wegner)

  Is tourism doomed to be a destructive social force?, paper delivered to the World Congress of the International Sociological Association conference, July 2003, Brisbane, in Research Committee 50 International Tourism

  Community as tourism object: associated disciplinary understandings. Paper delivered at the Annual Conference of CAUTHE, Tourism on the Edge, February 2002, Fremantle, with Leah Burns, Linley Chandler, Megan Revitt, Sarah Veitch

  Tourism and the gentrification and deindustrialisation of Fremantle. Paper delivered at the Annual Conference of CAUTHE, Tourism on the Edge, February 2002, Fremantle, with Sarah Veitch and John Selwood.

  VFR and Droving in the High Country: mythology and authenticity. Paper delivered to the ANZALS Conference 2001, Fremantle.

  (The Role of) Non-government Organisations in Restoring and managing Outback Tracks in Western Australia, in Weir, Brian, Simon McArthur and Alice Crabtree (eds), Developing Ecotourism into the Millenium: Proceedings of the Ecotourism Association of Australia 1998 National Conference, 1999, Ecotourism Association of Australia, pp 86-88. (available at http://www.btr.gov.au/service/confproc/ecotourism98/index.cfm)

  Action research planning for sustainable (tourism) development: the places and people of Omeo. Paper delivered to the ANZALS Conference 1997, University of Newcastle.

  A video to Facilitate Collaborative Learning' in Rowe, David and Peter Brown Proceedings, ANZALS Conference 1997, Newcastle, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies and Department of Leisure and Tourism Studies, the University of Newcastle, pp 131-4.

  Community planning for sustainable (tourism) development. Paper delivered at the Annual Conference of CAUTHE, Tourism Research: Building a Better Industry, July 6-9, 1997, Sydney

  Sustainable Community: Tourism in the shire of Omeo in Simpson, Clare and Bob Gidlow (eds), Proceedings ANZALS Conference 1995, Canterbury, NZ: Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies and Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Lincoln University, pp152-157.

  Sustainable community - tourism in the ex-Shire of Omeo. Part 2: action research or research in action. A paper presented to the IGU Sustainable Tourism Symposium, University of Canberra, September 3-4, 1995

Thesis Supervision
Research thesis titles supervised:

• RICCI, Matthew. (2006) Campgrounds and Birds: Impacts of design on bird populations in Western Australian Jarrah Forest. (Honours Thesis)
• Ii, Fung Mei Sarah (2005) Gazing on 'An Altogether Different World': Contemporary Tourism Development in China. PhD Thesis
• SANDERS, Dale (2005) From Colonial Outpost to Popular Tourism Destination: an Historical Geography of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Region 1829-2005. PhD Thesis
• ROE , Katherine Gay. (2004) Shedding some Light on Brothel Tourism (Honours Thesis)
• FOUNTAIN, Joanna (2002) Behind the Brochures: The (re)construction of touristic place images in Akaroa, New Zealand. PhD Thesis
• NORTHCOTE, Jeremy (2001) The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth: a discursive perspective, PhD thesis.
• JAMES, Kandy (2001) I just gotta have my own space!: The role of place and audience in the recreational choices made by adolescent girls in Western Australia. PhD thesis.
• JENNINGS, Gayle (2000) Voyages from the Centre to the Margins: An ethnographyof long term ocean cruisers. Phd Thesis.
• REVITT, Megan (1999) Rethinking Ecotourism: Authenticity and Postmodernism. Honours Thesis
• PALMER, David (1999) Spurning, Yearning and Learning Aboriginality: Ambivalence in shaping the lives of non-Aboriginal Australians, Phd Thesis.
• WESTERHAUSEN, Klaus (1998). Western Travellers in Asia. A mobile subculture in search of a home. PhD Thesis.
• PALMER, David (1995) From Kaat Wara to Moorditjnyidiyang: Youth Work, Change and the Constitution of the Wadjela Self, M.Phil Thesis.
• THOMPSON, Shona (1994) Servicing Sport: The Incorporation of Women's Labour for the Maintenance and Reproduction of a Social Institution, Ph.D Thesis.
• WARREN, Valerie (1994) Young Women at Leisure: Ideology and Empowerment, Honours Thesis.

Research thesis topics currently under supervision:

• Host Involvement in Australian wildlife based tourism: implications for sustainability.
• Crisis, the media and managing to survive as a tourism operator.
• Sustainable tourism in Fremantle, WA - impacts on residents (PhD - Sustainable Tourism, CRC project)
• Building better collaborative management between protected area managers and the tourism industry (PhD - Sustainable Tourism, CRC project)

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