James Higham
Professor
Office - Commerce 4.06
Tel 64 3 479 8500
Email james.higham@otago.ac.nz
Background
I began and continue my academic career at the University of Otago (New Zealand) where I was appointed Head of the Department of Tourism in December 2006. Initially appointed to the department as an Assistant Lecturer in 1994, I was promoted to Personal Professor in 2006. Since 2009 I have held the position of Visiting Professor of Sustainable Tourism at the University of Stavanger (Norway) and I has been Visiting Professor, University of Alberta on two occasions in November 2006 and June 2010. My current international research collaborations are with Professor Tom Hinch (University of Alberta, Canada), Dr. Scott Cohen (University of Bournemouth, UK), Dr. David Lusseau (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) and Dr. Lars Bejder (Murdoch University). I serve as an Associate Editor of The Journal of Sport & Tourism (Taylor and Francis) and on the editorial boards of Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Ecotourism and Tourism in Marine Environments. I have spent periods of sabbatical leave in 2002 and 2007 in the United Kingdom (2002, 2007) and Norway (2002).
Research Interests
My current research interests lie in two general areas:
1. Tourism and the environment
Specifically, the focus of my research includes tourist interactions with wildlife, tourism and wilderness, and the relationship between tourism, recreation and climate change. Interests in the tourism-environment relationship extend to vulnerability and adaptability in terms of climate change as well as more immediate natural disaster events. My most recent publications address various subjects such as; the development of integrated, adaptive and research-informed management models to address the sustainability of tourist interactions cetaceans (and other human-widlife interactions), tourism and wildlife habituation, and resource use conflicts in marine tourism.
2. Sport and tourism.
My research collaboration with Professor Tom Hinch (University of Alberta, Canada) dates to 1998. Our research interests in the field of sport and tourism include sport and spatial travel flows, sport and tourism seasonality, sport and authentic experiences, and globalization, sport and place. Our latest publication project (Higham & Hinch, 2009) titled ‘Sport and tourism: Globalization, mobility and identity’. We are currently working on the second edition of ‘Sport and tourism Development’ (Hinch & Higham) which is due to be published in 2011.
Major Works
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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. |
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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. |
Higham, J.E.S & Hinch, T.D. 2009, Sport and Tourism. Globalization, Mobility and Identity. Oxford: Elsevier. |
Selected Recent Publications
Higham, J.E.S. & Cohen, C. (2011). Canary in the coalmine: Norwegian attitudes towards climate change and extreme long-haul air travel to Aotearoa/New Zealand. Tourism Management 32:98-105.
Walker, G.J., Hinch, T. & Higham, J.E.S. (2010). Athletes as tourists: The roles of mode of experience and achievement orientation. Journal of Sport & Tourism 15(4):287-305.
Cohen, S. & Higham, J.E.S. (2010). Eyes wide shut? UK Consumer perceptions on aviation climate impacts and travel decisions to New Zealand. Current Issues in Tourism in press (accepted for publication 26 January 2010).
Reis, A. & Higham, J.E.S. (2009). Recreation Conflict and Sport Hunting: Moving beyond goal interference towards social sustainability. Journal of Sport & Tourism 14(2/3):83-108. (Lead article in Special Issue on Sport tourism sustainability).
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.
PhD and Masters Supervision
PhD P. Van den Hoven. Surfing and tourism.
PhD. D. Hopkins. Climate change adaption in the New Zealand ski industry.
PhD. D. Lindquist. Kaikoura, Dusky dolphins and tourism (advisor)
PhD. D. Nyahunzvi. Neoliberalism and park management.
PhD. A. Palliser. Tourism and socio-ecological systems.
PhD. R. Wright. Sport, tourism and identity.
PhD. A. Reis. Recreational conflict in mountain environments (graduated May 2010)
PhD. C. Orchiston*. Tourism and Seismic Risk (graduated May 2010)
PhD. R. Mitchell. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in tourism.
PhD. Å. Grahn Personal benefits of educational tour experiences
Masters M. Julseth. The international transferablility of the Stetind Project