Marine wildlife tours provide a range of education and conservation benefits for visitors.
These benefits derive from interpretation programs and close personal encounters with …

This paper reviews recent research into the ecological impacts of recreation and tourism on
coastal marine fauna in Australia. Despite the high and growing importance of water-based …

Marine wildlife tours can provide a range of education and conservation benefits for visitors,
including emotional (ie, affective) responses and learning (ie, cognition). Interpretive …

This study assessed the short‐term responses of humpback whales to whale‐watching
vessels during their southward migration along the south coast of New South Wales (NSW) …

Whale-watching tourism is a growth industry worldwide. In Australia, with whale-watchers
approaching one million per annum there has been considerable effort to develop …

Wildlife tourism is one of the fastest growing tourism sectors worldwide. Across the world the
number of tourists seeking close interaction with wildlife in their natural environment is …

Scuba diving is a growing form of tourism reflecting positively on the economy of coastal
communities. However, any negative impacts associated with scuba diving need to be …

Using data collected from more than 1,000 tourists on live-aboard dive boats operating in
the Cairns/Cooktown management area of the Great Barrier Reef, this paper estimates the …

Abstract Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins(Sousa chinensis) occur in the coastal northern
waters of Australia from approximately the Queensland–New South Wales border (31o27S …

Many people support whale watching on the basis that it enhances people's appreciation
and awareness of the whales they are viewing and can lead to the protection of the species …