Whale watching is an international industry worth more than US $2 billion globally and is
currently the greatest economic activity reliant upon cetaceans. However, there is concern …

The increasing popularity of marine wildlife tourism (MWT) worldwide calls for assessment of
its conservation outcomes and the development of appropriate management frameworks to …

There are increasingly strident calls from many sectors of society for the tourism industry, the
world's largest industry, to adopt a more ethical approach to the way it does business. In …

Social Marketing is the utilisation of marketing principles and methods to encourage
individual and organisational behaviour change for the public good. Traditionally the …

Marine tourism is a new frontier of late-capitalist transformation, generating more global
revenue than aquaculture and fisheries combined. This transformation created whale …

In recent years there has been significant interest in modelling cumulative effects and the
population consequences of individual changes in cetacean behaviour and physiology due …

Reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) are one of the ocean's largest and most charismatic
species. Pressure from targeted and bycatch fisheries coupled with their conservative life …

The expansion of the world's merchant fleet poses a great threat to the ocean's biodiversity.
Collisions between ships and marine megafauna can have population-level consequences …

Nature-based tourism has surged in recent years with the desire for up-close interactions
and “connections” with wild animals. The conservation value, animal welfare considerations …

This study investigates whether tourists can be a force to evoke compliance, via conducting
social science and compliance studies simultaneously. Tourist demographics, motivation …