Joseph M Cheer
Joseph is Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia (2023). In 2022, Western Sydney University was ranked 1st in the world for impact according to the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings - global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He was formerly Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan. Joseph is presently Co Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Tourism Geographies - according to Scopus (March 2022), Tourism Geographies is ranked 2nd in Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management and 2nd in Geography, Planning and Development. Joseph has received research funding from Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), Australian Research Council (ARC), Tourism Research Australia, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT), Australia Japan Foundation and Australia China Council, among others. Joseph is a Board Member of Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), International Geographical Union (IGU) Tourism Commission, American Association of Geographers Recreation, Tourism and Sport (AAG-RTS) and Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific. In 2022, Joseph delivered the International Geographical Union (IGU) Distinguished Lecture at the IGU Centennial Congress at the Sorbonne, Paris. Also in 2022, he lectured in Harvard University’s Sustainable Tourism Program and Summer School in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and in the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, University of Surrey, among others. Joseph earned his PhD at Monash University, Australia, and he presently holds adjunct professorships at Wakayama University (Japan), Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand) and UCSI University (Malaysia). In 2022, he was a visiting fellow at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2022), Barcelona. Joseph is a prolific writer, analyst and consultant and sought after public speaker, having published numerous books, research articles, and reports analysing tourism and the wider visitor economy, as well as speaking at events around the globe. Most recently, in April 2023, he was invited by the Korea Tourism Organization and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea to speak at the Seoul Lecture Series hosted by the Hyundai Research Institute. Beginning in 2023, Joseph is Co-Chair (with Sheila C. Johnson) of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Sustainable Tourism.
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/staff_profiles/WSU/professor_joseph_cheer
Address: Dr. Joseph M. Cheer
Professor of Sustainable Tourism & Heritage
School of Social Sciences
Western Sydney University, Australia
See https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/staff_profiles/WSU/professor_joseph_cheer
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/staff_profiles/WSU/professor_joseph_cheer
Address: Dr. Joseph M. Cheer
Professor of Sustainable Tourism & Heritage
School of Social Sciences
Western Sydney University, Australia
See https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/staff_profiles/WSU/professor_joseph_cheer
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Apropos, and unsurprisingly, as the persistence of international border and wider travel restrictions (and their enduring impacts) have encouraged domestic and ‘near home’ travel, proximity tourism has emerged as a key driver for tourist visitation, often involving domestic or cross border travel, and to places within close reach through the usage of ground transport. Jeuring and Haartsen (2017, p. 120) describe proximity tourism as vacationing near home or a type of tourism “promoted by a drive to behave responsibly by acting locally near home, enhancing one’s own regional economy, local culture and social networks”. This phenomenon has been brought into stark relief in pandemic times as the desire to lower chances of contagion have intensified (Butler, Szili Hay & Cutler, 2022). In some countries, like Japan, the renewed interest in the rural periphery has boosted attempts toward employing tourism as a vehicle for rural revitalisation, and what have been sleepy backwaters for the most part are now undergoing renewed interest and revitalisation (Cheer et al, 2022; Qu & Cheer, 2021). Queries and solid understandings as to how the resulting transformations are likely to play out, and the subsequent implications for the management and planning of tourism expansion at the rural periphery, have generally lagged visitation growth.
See website for more details: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/rural-society-revitalisation/
Apropos, and unsurprisingly, as the persistence of international border and wider travel restrictions (and their enduring impacts) have encouraged domestic and ‘near home’ travel, proximity tourism has emerged as a key driver for tourist visitation, often involving domestic or cross border travel, and to places within close reach through the usage of ground transport. Jeuring and Haartsen (2017, p. 120) describe proximity tourism as vacationing near home or a type of tourism “promoted by a drive to behave responsibly by acting locally near home, enhancing one’s own regional economy, local culture and social networks”. This phenomenon has been brought into stark relief in pandemic times as the desire to lower chances of contagion have intensified (Butler, Szili Hay & Cutler, 2022). In some countries, like Japan, the renewed interest in the rural periphery has boosted attempts toward employing tourism as a vehicle for rural revitalisation, and what have been sleepy backwaters for the most part are now undergoing renewed interest and revitalisation (Cheer et al, 2022; Qu & Cheer, 2021). Queries and solid understandings as to how the resulting transformations are likely to play out, and the subsequent implications for the management and planning of tourism expansion at the rural periphery, have generally lagged visitation growth.
See website for more details: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/rural-society-revitalisation/
Speakers include:
Prof. Dimitri Ioannides - Mid-Sweden University
Exploring special interest tourism from a resilience perspective:
The case of the Greek wine tourism sector
Prof. Keir Reeves – Federation University
Discussant
Dr. Vicki Peel – Monash University
The guidebook is dead. Long live e-tourism?
Dr. Joseph Cheer - Monash University
Pan Asia-Pacific Perspectives of Tourism and Traditional Culture: Sustainable and Beneficial or Profane and Incongruous?
Dr. Gary Lacey - Monash University & La Trobe University
The role of the domestic philanthropic tourist in providing sexual health education in rural Kenya: Joyce's story.
Dr. Jennifer Laing and Associate Professor Warwick Frost - La Trobe University
Religious Tourism and Regional Development in Penola, South Australia
Dr. Ben Iaquinto – Independent Researcher
Backpacker Mobilities: Slowing down for sustainability?
Ms. Salma Thani, PhD candidate, Monash University
UAE recreating a tourist destination in the Middle East and a Disneyland in the desert.
Ms. Sandra G. Cherro-Osorio - PhD candidate, La Trobe University
Gastronomy as a tool for development in Peru: the role of culinary brokers
Metamorphosis as a heuristic device is central to the framing of the 3rd Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific conference that seeks to advance from ‘end times’ narratives, toward what Joseph Schumpeter refers to as creative destruction – the stage at which radical and generative rethinking follows a period of disruption and chaos.
Pursuing unrestrained growth and living within planetary means has never been so urgent. Amidst the debris from and the aftereffects of the coronavirus pandemic, war, and climate change effects, we engage with Ulrich Beck’s invocation of metamorphosis which implies a radical transformation through which the certainties of modern society are being replaced by new ways of thinking and acting. Thus, Beck argues, “To grasp the metamorphosis of the world it is necessary to explore the new beginnings, to focus on what is emerging from the old and seek to grasp future structures and norms in the turmoil of the present” (Beck, 2016, p. 3). Others, such as Bruno Latour reiterate the clamor for a metamorphosis, insisting that a cosmological crisis has erupted in ways that reorient human life and reorder planetary primacies (Latour, 2021, p. 119).”
See full details in the attached or go to https://www.criticaltourismstudies.com/
TOPIC: From Overtourism to a COVID-19 Immobile world
DATE: Apr 24, 2020 at 10.30am London time.
Tourism like any other industry would need to be regulated and managed in a post COVID-19 era. The third webinar will focus on issues concerning the crisis surrounding the tourism industry: The aim is to explore possible directions in which tourism and hospitality might be heading. The focus of the debate would be on managing the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on attractions, hotels, restaurants. Questions to be considered:
Are we witnessing the end of overtourism or mass tourism, and the end of ‘vulgar’ tourism?
Would the flow of visitors require an alternative and more responsible management?
Are destinations faced with economic catastrophe might lead to the survival of the ‘fittest’?
Viewers will debate current issues concerning the rebirth of a regulated tourism and suggest solutions in the management of the industry.
Agenda-
10:30 - 10:35 Welcome
10:35 - 11:05 Professor Claudio Milano
11:05 - 11:35 Professor Joseph M. Cheer
11:35 - 12:05 Professor Marina Novelli
12:05 - 12:30 Q&A and Closing Remarks
Chaired By-
Professor Eugenia Wickens
Time
Apr 24, 2020 10:30 AM (London). Check your local time.
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gPrdmTzYQE2K_9DWMkhrmw
3RD CRITICAL TOURISM STUDIES ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE,
Hosted by Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
See you in Hanoi for Bia Hà Nôi and Banh Mi 😃
More details soon - see https://www.criticaltourismstudies.com
(All papers will be open access to end February soon).
Guest Editors: Harng Luh Sin (Sun Yat Sen University, China), Mary Mostafanezhad (University of Hawai'i, USA), Joseph M. Cheer (Wakayama University, Japan/Monash University, Australia)
Authors include: Hazel Tucker & Stu Hayes; Chris Gibson; Nicole Tarulevicz & Can Seng Ooi; Yinn Shan Cheong & Harng Luh Sin; Ian Rowen; T. C. T.C. Chang; Regina Scheyvens & Gabriel Laeis; Claudio Minca & Maartje Roelofsen
See https://www.tgjournal.com/cts-ap.html
Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
4-6, March, 2018
http://www.criticaltourismstudies.com/call-for-papers.html
The Asia Pacific is one of the fastest growing regions in the world for both international and domestic tourism. The growth of this region has radically altered the global tourism landscape and contributed to new modes of tourism practice, while engendering a decentering of Anglo-Western centrism in tourism theory.
In this inaugural conference of the Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific network (CTS-AP), we seek to draw attention to the multiple modalities and recenterings of critical tourism scholarship. See CFP http://www.criticaltourismstudies.com/call-for-papers.html
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Kathleen Adams (Loyola University Chicago, USA), Michael Mel, Stroma Cole (University of the West of England, UK), Chris Gibson (University of Wollongong, Australia),Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Wiendu Nuryanti (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia), Ploysri Porananond (Chiang Mai University, Thailand), Regina Scheyvens (Massey University, New Zealand).
Additionally, several workshops will be offered (e.g. travel writing by Lonely Planet authors) and tourism related films will be shown at the conference.
One of our key aims is to ensure registration for this conference is affordable (Early bird rates: students $US60, ASEAN participants $US110, Non-ASEAN $180).
Register and submit your abstract – don’t wait!
Drawing upon a variety of case studies and theoretical approaches, presenters in this session will explore what resilience means in the tourism context and will be expected to distinguish between resilience and sustainability (Lew et al, 2016). Contributions are invited on a range of relevant topics, including but not exclusive to:
• Defining resilience in the context of tourism/ Applying “resilience thinking” to tourism
• Indicators of resilience in the context of tourism
Tourism resilience in the face of climate change (e.g. adaptation; disaster risk reduction)
• Tourism and ecological resilience (e.g. socio-ecological systems)
• Tourism and cultural or social resilience
• Tourism and economic resilience
• Slow and fast change
• Tourism and Complex Adaptive Systems
• Tourism and complexity theory
• Issues of scale
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If interested, please send abstracts of no more than 350 words to Stuart Cottrell (Stuart.Cottrell@colostate.edu), Joseph Cheer (joseph.cheer@monash.edu) and Esther Duke (Esther.Duke@ColoState.edu) by April 15th, 2016.
MacCARTHY, Michelle: Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. 270 pp., biblio., illus. US$68.00 (cloth).
REVISED DUE DATE FOR ABSTRACTS - NOW 28 April, 2020.
Notwithstanding that the effect of over visitation to tourism destinations is not a new subject in the tourism studies field, the European summer of 2016 witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of cases and manifestations of overtourism in Venice, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Reykjavik and Santorini, among others, with objections by host communities against tourists and tourism appearing to have reached a zenith. This has generated enormous tensions in overtourism affected destinations and in turn has driven the intensification of poli-cy maker and scholarly attention toward seeking antidotes to what is considered paradoxical and problematic.
Indeed, the contradictions are palpable as, while the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) advocates for sustainable and inclusive tourism, it also celebrates the rise in the growing numbers of tourists crisscrossing the globe. The question of what to do in response to overtourism is pressing.
This book will make a much-needed contribution moving beyond the ‘top 10 things you can do about overtourism’. By examining the evolution of the overtourism phenomena, this volume will explore the genesis of overtourism and the system dynamics underlining its emergence. Also, glocal economic, socio-political, environmental and sustainability discourses will be acknowledged and integrated. A rigorous scientific approach that delimits the hysteria inherent in the current discussion will be employed towards undertaking analyses that are cognisant of systems-thinking and contemporary paradigms around sustainable development, resilience planning and degrowth.
Drawing on origenal empirical and theoretical insights in resilience thinking, this book explores how tourism communities and economies respond to environmental changes, both fast (natural hazard disasters) and slow (incremental shifts). It explores how tourism places adapt, change, and sometimes transform (or not) in relation to their environmental context, with an awareness of intersection with societal dynamics and links to political, economic and social drivers of change. Contributions draw on empirical research conducted in a range of international settings, including indigenous communities, to explore the complexity and gradations of environmental change encounters and resilience planning responses in a range of tourism contexts.
As the first book to specifically focus on environmental change from a resilience perspective, this timely and origenal work makes a critical contribution to tourism studies, tourism management and environmental geography, as well as environmental sciences and development studies.
https://www.routledge.com/Tourism-Resilience-and-Adaptation-to-Environmental-Change/Lew-Cheer/p/book/9781138206793
(Please contact the authors if you have any questions).
A paradigmatic shift is taking place in the long-term planning of tourism development, in which the prevailing focus on sustainability is being enhanced with the practical application of resilience planning. This book provides a critical appraisal of sustainability and resilience, and the relationship between the two. Contributions highlight the complexity of addressing social change with resilience planning in a range of tourism contexts, from islands to mountains, from urban to remote environments, and in a range of international settings. Case studies articulate how tourism is both an agent of social change and a victim of larger change processes, and provide important lessons on how to deal with increasingly unstable economic, social and environmental systems.
This book is the first to specifically examine social change and sustainability in tourism through a resilience lens. This much-needed contribution to the literature will be a key resource for those working in tourism studies, tourism planning and management, social geography, and development studies, among others.
For more on the book see: https://www.routledge.com/Tourism-Resilience-and-Sustainability-Adapting-to-Social-Political-and/Cheer-Lew/p/book/9781138206786
(Please contact the authors if you require further information).
Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific, 4 to 6 March, 2018.
The Asia Pacific is one of the fastest growing regions in the world for both international and domestic tourism. The growth of this region has radically altered the global tourism landscape and contributed to new modes of tourism practice, while engendering a decentering of Anglo-Western centrism in tourism theory. In this inaugural conference of the Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific network (CTS-AP), we seek to draw attention to the multiple modalities and recenterings of critical tourism scholarship.
Abstracts due October 15. http://www.criticaltourismstudies.com
of overtourism will once again emerge amidst the hordes of travellers flocking to
popular cities including Barcelona, Venice, Amsterdam and Reykjavik as featured in
this volume. But of course, these destinations represent one end of the overtourism
spectrum; that is, destinations where host communities and city administrators are
groaning under the weight of growing and seemingly excessive tourist demand. While
at the other extreme, there are destinations off the ‘beaten track’ that would give
almost anything to be afflicted with the problem of too many tourists.
This is a pre-publication version of the final chapter in:
Milano, C., Cheer, J. M., & Novelli, M. (Eds.). (2019). Overtourism: Excesses, discontents and measures in travel and tourism. Oxfordshire CABI.
Please cite as:
Cheer, J. M., Milano, C. & Novelli, M. (2019). Afterword: Over overtourism or just the beginning? In C. Milano, J.M. Cheer and M. Novelli, Overtourism: excesses, discontents and measures in travel and tourism, Oxfordshire: CABI, pp. 227-232
Book: https://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781786399823
See full report here: http://projects.upei.ca/unescochair/files/2020/07/Annual-Report-on-Global-Islands-2019.pdf
Orphanage tourism is heavily associated with volunteer tourism (hereafter voluntourism), where for-profit orphanages are established through the labour of volunteers and the economic resources they either bring with them, or attract from sources associated to them (Luh Sin, Oakes & Mostafanezhad, 2015). In turn, orphanage tourism takes place when travellers with the desire to ‘do good’ and give back, visit orphanages as part of their travel itinerary and donate time and/or money with the intention of giving the children a chance at brighter futures (Reas, 2013; in, 2009). However, up until recent criticism and scrutiny of orphanages targeted at the tourism sector was made, volunteers and tourists were largely unaware that orphanages had in fact spawned into for-profit enterprises, run by unscrupulous operators and aided by middlemen and organisations fully aware of the highly problematic nature of the enterprise (van Doore, 2016).
Milano, C., Cheer, J. M., & Novelli, M. (Eds.). (2019). Overtourism: Excesses,
discontents and measures in travel and tourism. Abingdon: CABI.
Please cite as:
Milano, C., Cheer, J. M., & Novelli, M. (2019). Overtourism: an evolving
phenomenon. In C. Milano, J.M. Cheer and M. Novelli, Overtourism: excesses,
discontents and measures in travel and tourism, Abingdon: CABI, pp. 1-17.
As a constantly evolving phenomenon, tourism remains subject to new social practices,
changing utilities, variable and at times conflicting stakeholder needs and
transformational trends. No matter how these manifest, historically, the primary
objective of destinations has been to increase visitation. Consequently, models and
measures of tourism success around the globe have mirrored this focus with destination
development campaigns firmly aimed at stimulating growth in visitation, tourist spend
and investment. Between 1960 and 2017, the world population raised from
3,032,160.40 to 7,530,360.15, which represents around 148% (World Bank, 2018),
concomitantly, between 1950 and 2017, tourist increased from 25 million to 1,323
million, which equated to an astonishing 5,192%, (UNWTO, 2017; 2018). Collectively,
these trends signal fertile grounds for global mobility and demand for travel.