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99

Overview

David Bruce Weaver is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, particularly within the subfields of sociology and political science, molecular biology, computational mechanics, plant science, and tourism, leisure, and hospitality management.

The researcher's work focuses on diverse aspects of tourism research, addressing topics such as sport and mega-event impacts, mitochondrial function and pathology, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, vibration and dynamic analysis, environmental sustainability in business, and cruise tourism development and management.

Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Sustainable Tourism with seven publications, the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology with five, followed by the Journal of Travel Research with four, Annals of Tourism Research with three, and Tourism Management with three publications.

Some recent papers authored by or involving David Bruce Weaver include:

  • The adaptive resilience of living cultural heritage in a tourism destination (2020, Journal of Sustainable Tourism)
  • Are we really progressing sustainable tourism research? A bibliometric analysis (2020, Journal of Sustainable Tourism)
  • Adapt to not just survive but thrive: resilience strategies of five-star hotels at difficult times (2021, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management)
  • Are water-centric themes in sustainable tourism research congruent with the UN Sustainable Development Goals? (2021, Journal of Sustainable Tourism)
  • Facilitating sustainable tourism by endogenization: China as exemplar (2020, Annals of Tourism Research)

David Bruce Weaver has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Brent Moyle, Char-lee McLennan, Gian Luca Casali, György Hajnóczky, and Marwan Hassan.

Best Publications

  • Ecotourism in the less developed world

    David Bruce Weaver

  • Sustainable Tourism : Theory and Practice

    David B. Weaver

  • Twenty years on: The state of contemporary ecotourism research

    David Bruce Weaver;Laura J. Lawton

  • Principles of ecotourism.

    R. K. Blamey;D. B. Weaver

  • The Encyclopedia of Ecotourism

    David B. Weaver

  • Resident Perceptions in the Urban–Rural Fringe

    David Bruce Weaver;Laura Jane Lawton

  • Comprehensive and Minimalist Dimensions of Ecotourism

    David B. Weaver

  • Ecotourism as mass tourism: contradiction or reality?

    David Bruce Weaver

  • Overnight Ecotourist Market Segmentation in the Gold Coast Hinterland of Australia

    David B. Weaver;Laura J. Lawton

  • Can sustainable tourism survive climate change

    David Bruce Weaver

  • Sustainable Tourism Futures: Perspectives on Systems, Restructuring and Innovations

    Stefan Gossling;C. Michael Hall;David Bruce Weaver

  • Magnitude of ecotourism in Costa Rica and Kenya

    David B. Weaver

  • Organic, incremental and induced paths to sustainable mass tourism convergence

    David Bruce Weaver

  • A broad context model of destination development scenarios

    David Bruce Weaver

  • The Ecotourium Concept and Tourism-Conservation Symbiosis

    David Fennell;David Bruce Weaver

  • Alternative to mass tourism in Dominica

    David B. Weaver

  • Peripheries of the periphery: Tourism in Tobago and Barbuda

    D.B. Weaver

  • The vacation farm sector in Saskatchewan: a profile of operations

    David B Weaver;David A Fennell

  • Developing indicators for destination sustainability.

    E. Sirakaya;T. B. Jamal;H. S. Choi;D. B. Weaver

  • THE EVOLUTION OF A ‘PLANTATION’ TOURISM LANDSCAPE ON THE CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF ANTIGUA

    David B. Weaver

  • Progress in tourism management Twenty years on: The state of contemporary ecotourism research

    David B. Weaver;Laura J. Lawton

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Buckley
Ralf Buckley Griffith University
Stefan Gössling
Stefan Gössling Linnaeus University
David A. Fennell
David A. Fennell Brock University
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge
Bill Faulkner
Bill Faulkner Griffith University
Geoffrey Wall
Geoffrey Wall University of Waterloo
Susanne Becken
Susanne Becken Griffith University
Richard Butler
Richard Butler University of Strathclyde
Scott A. Cohen
Scott A. Cohen University of Surrey
Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott University of Waterloo

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