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Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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34
Citations
7079
World Ranking
6872
National Ranking
490

Overview

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is affiliated with the University of South Australia in Australia. Their academic work primarily spans the broad field of Social Sciences, with a focus on specialized subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Geography, Planning and Development, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, and Social Psychology.

The main areas of research carried out by Higgins-Desbiolles reflect diverse aspects of tourism studies. Key topics of their scholarship include:

  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Religious Tourism and Spaces
  • Hospitality and Tourism Education
  • Geographies of Human-Animal Interactions
  • Cruise Tourism Development and Management

Significant frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Higgins-Desbiolles include:

  • Bobbie Chew Bigby
  • Andrew Peters
  • Raymond Rastegar
  • Lisa Ruhanen
  • Regina Scheyvens

Higgins-Desbiolles has commonly published in several academic venues, with notable recurrent appearances in:

  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Tourism Geographies
  • Journal of Tourism Futures
  • Tourism Review

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice after COVID-19 (2020), published in Tourism Geographies
  • The "war over tourism": challenges to sustainable tourism in the tourism academy after COVID-19 (2020), published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19 (2020), published in Tourism Geographies
  • COVID-19 and a justice framework to guide tourism recovery (2021), published in Annals of Tourism Research
  • Indigenous tourism and the sustainable development goals (2021), published in Annals of Tourism Research

Best Publications

  • Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice after COVID-19

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • More than an “industry”: The forgotten power of tourism as a social force

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • Degrowing tourism: rethinking tourism

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles;Sandro Carnicelli;Chris Krolikowski;Gayathri Wijesinghe

  • Sustainable tourism: sustaining tourism or something more?

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • The “war over tourism”: challenges to sustainable tourism in the tourism academy after COVID-19

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • A critical framework for interrogating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda in tourism

    Karla A. Boluk;Christina T. Cavaliere;Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • Justice Tourism and Alternative Globalisation

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • The Elusiveness of Sustainability in Tourism: The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism and its Implications:

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • Reconciliation Tourism: Tourism Healing Divided Societies!

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • No high hopes for hopeful tourism: A critical comment

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles;Kyle Powys Whyte

  • Event tourism and event imposition: A critical case study from Kangaroo Island, South Australia

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • COVID-19 and a justice framework to guide tourism recovery.

    Raymond Rastegar;Freya Higgins-Desbiolles;Lisa Ruhanen

  • Indigenous tourism and the sustainable development goals

    Regina Scheyvens;Anna Carr;Apisalome Movono;Emma Hughes

  • Indigenous ecotourism's role in transforming ecological consciousness

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • How sustainable is sustainable hospitality research? A review of sustainable restaurant literature from 1991 to 2015

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles;Emily Moskwa;Gayathri Wijesinghe

  • A local turn in tourism studies

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  • The ongoingness of imperialism: The problem of tourism dependency and the promise of radical equality

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  • De-Marginalising Tourism Research: Indigenous Australians As Tourists

    Andrew Peters;Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • Death by a thousand cuts: governance and environmental trade-offs in ecotourism development at Kangaroo Island, South Australia

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia

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  • The critical capacities of restaurants as facilitators for transformations to sustainability

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles;Gayathri Wijesinghe

  • Sustainability through food and conversation: the role of an entrepreneurial restaurateur in fostering engagement with sustainable development issues

    Emily Moskwa;Freya Higgins-Desbiolles;Stuart Gifford

  • Critical thinking to realize sustainability in tourism systems: reflecting on the 2030 sustainable development goals

    Karla Boluk;Christina T. Cavaliere;Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • Socialising tourism after COVID-19: reclaiming tourism as a social force?

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles;Bobbie Chew Bigby;Adam Doering

  • The Coorong Wilderness Lodge: A case study of planning failures in Indigenous tourism

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles;George Trevorrow;Syd Sparrow

  • Justifying tourism: justice through tourism.

    F. Higgins-Desbiolles;S. Cole;N. Morgan

  • The Politics and Power of Tourism in Palestine

    Rami K. Isaac;C. Michael Hall;Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • The Hotel Bauen’s challenge to cannibalizing capitalism

    Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

  • Absences in the volunteer tourism phenomenon: the right to travel, solidarity tours and transformation beyond the one-way.

    F. Higgins-Desbiolles;G. Russell-Mundine;K. D. Lyons;S. Wearing

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Wearing
Stephen Wearing University of Technology Sydney
Tazim Jamal
Tazim Jamal Texas A&M University

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