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234

Overview

Betty Weiler is affiliated with Southern Cross University in Australia and focuses on research in the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their work intersects multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas with a notable emphasis on Urban Green Space and Health, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research, Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Marine Animal Studies Overview, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Betty Weiler are:

  • Selfies to die for: A review of research on self-photography associated with injury/death in tourism and recreation, 2020, Tourism Management Perspectives
  • Beach-user perceptions and attitudes towards drone surveillance as a shark-bite mitigation tool, 2020, Marine Policy
  • From Human Wellbeing to an Ecocentric Perspective: How Nature-Connectedness Can Extend the Benefits of Marine Wildlife Experiences, 2020, Anthrozoös
  • Responsibility and preparedness for risk in national parks: results of a visitor survey, 2020, Tourism Recreation Research
  • Encounters with Wild, Ecotour, and Captive Marine Mammals: What Do They Tell Us About Human Well-Being and Environmental Behavior?, 2020, Tourism in Marine Environments

Frequent collaborators include Rachel Yerbury, Kirin Apps, Anna Maria Gstaettner, William Boyd, and Debra Stokes. These partnerships reflect an interdisciplinary approach spanning environmental, social, and recreational dimensions of their research.

Their scholarly contributions have been published in several specialized venues, including:

  • Marine Policy
  • Tourism Management Perspectives
  • Anthrozoös
  • Tourism Recreation Research
  • Tourism in Marine Environments

Best Publications

  • Testing the dimensionality of place attachment and its relationships with place satisfaction and pro-environmental behaviours: A structural equation modelling approach

    Haywantee Ramkissoon;Liam David Graham Smith;Betty Virginia Weiler

  • Special-Interest Tourism

    B. Weiler;C. M. Hall

  • Place Attachment and Pro-Environmental Behaviour in National Parks: The Development of a Conceptual Framework

    Haywantee Ramkissoon;Betty Weiler;Liam David Graham Smith

  • Trends and patterns in sustainable tourism research: a 25-year bibliometric analysis

    Lisa Ruhanen;Betty Weiler;Brent D Moyle;Char-lee J McLennan

  • Relationships between place attachment, place satisfaction and pro-environmental behaviour in an Australian national park

    Haywantee Ramkissoon;Liam David Graham Smith;Betty Virginia Weiler

  • An exploratory investigation into the roles of the nature-based tour leader

    Betty Weiler;Derrin Davis

  • Tour Guide Training: A Model for Sustainable Capacity Building in Developing Countries

    Betty Weiler;Sam H. Ham

  • Arts and heritage tourism.

    H. Zeppel;C. M. Hall;B. Weiler

  • Tour guides and interpretation

    Betty Weiler;Sam Ham

  • Effects of Interpretive Guiding Outcomes on Tourist Satisfaction and Behavioral Intention

    Songshan (Sam) Huang;Betty Weiler;Guy Assaker;Guy Assaker

  • Intercultural communication and mediation: A framework for analysing the intercultural competence of Chinese tour guides:

    Xin Yu;Betty Weiler;Sam Ham

  • Mediating Meaning: Perspectives on Brokering Quality Tourist Experiences

    Gayle Jennings;Betty Virginia Weiler

  • Tour Guiding Research: Insights, Issues and Implications

    Betty Weiler;Rosemary Black

  • Quality assurance and regulatory mechanisms in the tour guiding industry: a systematic review.

    Rosemary Black;Betty Virginia Weiler

  • Examining transformative processes in volunteer tourism

    Alexandra Coghlan;Betty Weiler

  • The changing face of the tour guide: one-way communicator to choreographer to co-creator of the tourist experience

    Betty Weiler;Rosemary Black

  • A closer examination of the impact of zoo visits on visitor behaviour.

    Liam David Graham Smith;Sue Broad;Betty Virginia Weiler

  • Does more interpretation lead to greater outcomes? An assessment of the impacts of multiple layers of interpretation in a zoo context

    Betty Virginia Weiler;Liam David Graham Smith

  • Extreme, extravagant and elite: a profile of ecotourists on Earthwatch expeditions.

    Betty Weiler;Harold Richins

  • Enhancing the visitor experience: reconceptualising the tour guide’s communicative role

    Betty Weiler;Kaye Walker

  • Destination Brand Identity, Values, and Community: A Case Study From Rural Victoria, Australia

    Fiona Wheeler;Warwick Frost;Betty Weiler

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan A. Moore
Susan A. Moore Murdoch University
Michael Lockwood
Michael Lockwood University of Tasmania
Haywantee Ramkissoon
Haywantee Ramkissoon University of South Australia
Roy Ballantyne
Roy Ballantyne University of Queensland
Bill Faulkner
Bill Faulkner Griffith University
David A. Fennell
David A. Fennell Brock University
Ralf Buckley
Ralf Buckley Griffith University

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