Leslie Dwyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 82596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Dwyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Dwyer |
| SIGNATURE | DWYER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9797-1043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 293 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Doughnut Economics: Implications for tourism economics
Doughnut Economics reimagines economic thinking, shifting away from the traditional focus on GDP growth, and instead emphasizes creation of an economy that meets human needs while staying within planetary boundaries. This paper explores the implications of the doughnut framework for tourism economics. It is argued that the model provides a robust foundation for rethinking tourism’s relationship with natural resources and ecological processes. The…
Why tourism economists should treat resident well-being more seriously
Recognising that well-being is a primary policy objective, tourism economics must incorporate resident well-being outcomes into conceptual analysis, empirical findings and policy assessment in a more inclusive way. Use of a well-being lens allows the research effort in tourism economics to convert tourism development impacts into resident well-being outcomes and better align with the broader Beyond GDP research agenda to measure societal progress…
Resident well-being and sustainable tourism development: The ‘capitals approach’
Despite substantial attention to sustainability issues, much of current research regarding tourism development does not fully appreciate the essential dynamics of the concept of sustainability, failing to appreciate the role played by changing capital stocks as sources of resident well-being. Since tourism development impacts on resident well-being through build up or depletion of different types of capital stocks, the sustainability challenge in…
Tourism development and sustainable well-being: A Beyond GDP perspective
The Beyond GDP approach to development is gaining widespread support from policy makers and researchers worldwide. While not formulated specifically for tourism activity, the approach serves as a guide to measuring the current and future well-being of destination residents associated with tourism development. Inspired by the Beyond GDP approach, a framework comprising the main dimensions of well-being is argued to provide valuable input into an a…
Tourism contribution to the SDGs: Applying a well-being lens
Human well-being is an essential dimension of sustainable development. This implies that an understanding of well-being outcomes and associated indicators is necessary to determine the success of the global tourism industry in meeting the SDG 2030 Agenda. It is argued that assessment of tourism’s progress toward achievement of the SDGs is incomplete without a full accounting of the outcomes of tourism development on human well-being. In addition …
Political relations and bilateral tourism demand: The case of China and Japan
Political relations between countries can potentially affect and be affected by bilateral visitor flows. Applying various modified Granger causality tests, this article uses Japan and China as a case study of the possible bi‐directional linkages between tourism demand and political relations. Findings suggest that country relations do influence visitor flows, but not vice versa. The influence is statistically strong regarding visitor flows from C…
Covid-19 impacts of inbound tourism on Australian economy
Tourism Economics and Policy
Tourism Economics and Policy
This revised edition incorporates new material on the sharing economy, AI, surface and marine transport, resident quality of life issues, the price mechanism, the economic contribution of tourism, and tourism and economic growth. It remains an accessible text for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism economics and policy.
The role of place attachment in tourism research
Place attachment has become an important concept in tourism-related research, with substantial relevance for the nature of the human-place relationship and behavioural intentions and outcomes. Following a review of the place attachment literature in tourism, this article reviews the studies on the conceptualisation of place attachment, its antecedents and influencing outcomes, and explores its potential in the areas of sustainable tourism, destin…
Residents’ Place Satisfaction and Place Attachment on Destination Brand-Building Behaviors: Conceptual and Empirical Differentiation
Place attachment has become a popular concept in tourism and environmental psychology. However, little research has explored its role in predicting place-related behaviors, compared to alternative place-related constructs such as place satisfaction. This article clarifies the differential impacts of place satisfaction and place attachment on a series of residents’ place-related behaviors (i.e., destination brand-building behaviors), providing emp…
Saluting while the ship sinks: The necessity for tourism paradigm change
The established mindset underpinning tourism planning, development and research is under attack from many quarters on the grounds that “business as usual” seems impossible to reconcile with sustainability. The paper first highlights key characteristics of the prevailing paradigm associated with tourism industry expansion globally. It then identifies common elements of an alternative “sustainable futures” paradigm, contrasting its features with th…
The determinants of Chinese visitors to Australia: A dynamic demand analysis
Metrics to measure the geographic characteristics of tourism markets: An integrated approach based on Gini index decomposition
Measuring price elasticities of demand for outbound tourism using competitiveness indices
Beyond Youth ‘Inclusion’: Intergenerational Politics in Post-Conflict Bali
Increased attention to the predicaments and potential of youth in conflict has moved the conflict resolution field in important new directions. However, our understandings of and approaches to youth in conflict have been limited by an emphasis on the inclusion of youth in peacebuilding projects without a correspondingly thorough analysis of the often-contested social categories of youth in conflicts. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic work with you…
Globalization of tourism: Drivers and outcomes
Globalization in tourism is an important area of promise and of concern. This paper first highlights the main drivers of globalization, distinguishing between economic, technological, social, demographic, environmental and political drivers. It then addresses several of the important effects of globalization in the context of tourism. These effects include economic development, employment opportunities, the spread of technical knowledge, the deve…
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
The impacts of Australia's departure tax: Tourism versus the economy
Is the migration-tourism relationship only about VFR
Is Australian tourism suffering Dutch Disease
Effect of dimensions of place attachment on residents' word-of-mouth behavior
The purpose of this study is to examine and compare the effect of residents’ different dimensions of place attachment on their word-of-mouth (WOM) behavior in two cities: Sydney, Australia and Shanghai, China. A six-dimensional construct of place attachment is proposed based upon a detailed literature review: four attitudinal dimensions (place identity, place dependence, affective attachment, social bonding) and two interactional dimensions (plac…
Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
In the last two decades the application of quantitative techniques in the study of the tourism phenomenon has gained momentum. This can be traced back to several factors. The most prominent is perhaps the fact that, as the reliance of destinations on tourism has grown and the industry expanded globally, more resources have been devoted to the collection of quantitative data and the maintenance of tourism data sets. This may have encouraged resear…
Tourism economics research: A review and assessment
Dispersal of visitors within destinations: Descriptive measures and underlying drivers
Evaluating tourism's economic effects: New and Old Approaches
The price competitiveness of travel and tourism: A comparison of 19 destinations
Destination and enterprise management for a tourism future
Effect of dimensions of place attachment on residents' word-of-mouth behavior
The purpose of this study is to examine and compare the effect of residents’ different dimensions of place attachment on their word-of-mouth (WOM) behavior in two cities: Sydney, Australia and Shanghai, China. A six-dimensional construct of place attachment is proposed based upon a detailed literature review: four attitudinal dimensions (place identity, place dependence, affective attachment, social bonding) and two interactional dimensions (plac…
Assessing the benefits and costs of inbound tourism
Economic significance of cruise tourism
Measuring price elasticities of demand for outbound tourism using competitiveness indices
Is the migration-tourism relationship only about VFR
Dispersal of visitors within destinations: Descriptive measures and underlying drivers
Fashioning a destination tourism future: The case of Slovenia
Covid-19 impacts of inbound tourism on Australian economy
Foreign tourism investment
The Effects of Restrictive Business Practiceson Australian Inbound Package Tourism
International visitors to Australia on package tours have expressed concern about aspects of their holiday experience. These aspects relate to restrictive business practices on the part of inbound tour operators. The origin markets most affected are China, Korea and Taiwan in particular, and, to a lesser extent, Japan. This paper first sets out the nature of the restrictive business practices and then discusses their underlying causes. It then es…
Mission statements of international airlines: A content analysis
Metrics to measure the geographic characteristics of tourism markets: An integrated approach based on Gini index decomposition
Beyond Youth ‘Inclusion’: Intergenerational Politics in Post-Conflict Bali
Increased attention to the predicaments and potential of youth in conflict has moved the conflict resolution field in important new directions. However, our understandings of and approaches to youth in conflict have been limited by an emphasis on the inclusion of youth in peacebuilding projects without a correspondingly thorough analysis of the often-contested social categories of youth in conflicts. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic work with you…
The impacts of Australia's departure tax: Tourism versus the economy
The determinants of Chinese visitors to Australia: A dynamic demand analysis
Is Australian tourism suffering Dutch Disease
A framework for analyzing intergovernmental collaboration – The case of Asean tourism
Globalization of tourism: Drivers and outcomes
Globalization in tourism is an important area of promise and of concern. This paper first highlights the main drivers of globalization, distinguishing between economic, technological, social, demographic, environmental and political drivers. It then addresses several of the important effects of globalization in the context of tourism. These effects include economic development, employment opportunities, the spread of technical knowledge, the deve…
A model of Asean collaboration in tourism
Estimating the Employment Impacts of Tourism to a Nation
The paper discusses the impact on national employment of an increase in foreign tourism expenditure. The paper will firstly review existing work, based on multiplier analysis, input-output studies and computable general equilibrium models. The deficiencies and advantages of these different approaches will be assessed. Special attention will be paid to assessing the employment impacts of tourism expenditure in a general equilibrium framework where…
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
Price competitiveness of tourism packages to Australia: Beyond the “Big Mac” index
One issue facing any country or region concerns its price competitiveness as a package tour destination. One method of measuring this is to use what in other contexts has been referred to as the Big Mac approach. The “Big Mac” is a simple product with ingredients in fixed proportions, whereas the tourism product is a very complex one comprising different components depending on tourist expenditure patterns. There is no equivalent tourism product …
How to Affect, but Not Change, the Past
Value Freedom' and the Scope of Economic Inquiry: 1. Positivism's Standard View and the Political Economists
According to what might well be regarded as the standard view among economic methodologists, the economist qua economist makes no value judgments concerning policy ends and their means of attainment. However, in restricting the proper aims of economic inquiry to epistemic goals only, the proponent of the standard view has neglected to ask why we seek to realize such goals; who needs economic knowledge?; for what?; what are people's fundamental ne…
Value Freedom' and the Scope of Economic Inquiry: II. The Fact/Value Continuum and the Basis for Scientific and Humanistic Policy
Underlying the view of economic methodologists that the economist in his professional capacity is prohibited from making value judgments concerning policy ends is the assumption that there exists an irreducible gap between statements of fact and value judgments, such that value judgments are incapable of receiving support on the basis of scientific inquiry. Once a strict fact/value dualism is seen to be untenable, and once it is recognized that v…
Science and Technology Policy in Australia: Three Studies
(1987). SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN AUSTRALIA: THREE STUDIES. Prometheus: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 419-426
R&d Project Assessment as an Information and Communication Process
The paper has three main objectives, viz, to emphasize the need for informed project assessment as central to the effective management of R&D by Australian businesses; to argue that different assessment techniques will be applicable to different stages of a project's development; to emphasize the importance of R&D project assessment as an information and communication process which helps to promote a firm's goals. In addressing these issues the p…
The Impact of the 150 Per Cent Tax Concession for Industrial Research and Development in Australia — A Preliminary Assessment
The paper has two main objectives. First, it provides the background and rationale for Australia's introduction of the 150 per cent tax concession for IR&D in order to appreciate some of the problems of its implementation. Secondly, it assesses the effectiveness of the concession in promoting IR&D. The latter requires estimation of the impact of the concession on the user cost of IR&D and the responsiveness of the demand for IR&D to changes in it…
Product Innovation Activities in Australian Manufacturing Industry
Australian manufacturing industry needs to pay more attention to introducing innovative products if it is to be more competitive in the international marketplace. This paper reports some results of an investigation of new product process activities of Australian manufacturing firms. The aims of the study were to determine the sorts and forms of activities undertaken, their proficiency of execution and the sorts of improvements needed. The result …
The case for tourism promotion: An economic analysis
Among the various factors influencing tourists to visit an overseas country is that of promotion/marketing activity by tourism operators and government tourist commissions in the destination country. The effects of tourism promotion have not previously been subjected to rigorous economic analysis however. The paper firstly shows how the standard economic justifications for government support of industry in circumstances of market failure, ie exte…
The Impact of New Product Strategies of Australian Firms
The more information available regarding elements of successful product innovation strategies, the more able are the managers of Australian industry to meet the challenges and opportunities ofthe international marketplace. To provide some understanding ofthe new product strategies of Australian firms, research was undertaken to determine performance results achieved by 108 firms in their new product programs, to determine whether firms' performan…
Assessing the benefits and costs of inbound tourism
Foreign tourism investment
The economics of leisure and tourism, environments, markets, and impacts
Organisational culture & strategic management in a resort hotel
Organisational culture plays an important role in the formulation and implementation of firm strategies and in determining performance, but its influence has tended to be neglected in the hospitality management literature. The paper firstly defines and discusses the major elements of organisational culture and investigates the links between organisational culture, firm strategy and performance. It then explores these links as they exist in a newl…
Estimating the Employment Impacts of Tourism to a Nation
The paper discusses the impact on national employment of an increase in foreign tourism expenditure. The paper will firstly review existing work, based on multiplier analysis, input-output studies and computable general equilibrium models. The deficiencies and advantages of these different approaches will be assessed. Special attention will be paid to assessing the employment impacts of tourism expenditure in a general equilibrium framework where…
Economic significance of cruise tourism
Price competitiveness of tourism packages to Australia: Beyond the “Big Mac” index
One issue facing any country or region concerns its price competitiveness as a package tour destination. One method of measuring this is to use what in other contexts has been referred to as the Big Mac approach. The “Big Mac” is a simple product with ingredients in fixed proportions, whereas the tourism product is a very complex one comprising different components depending on tourist expenditure patterns. There is no equivalent tourism product …
The price competitiveness of travel and tourism: A comparison of 19 destinations
Economic Contribution of Tourism to Andhra Pradesh, India
The state of Andhra Pradesh has, for the past decade and a half, been performing relatively poorly on several major economic indicators. Recently re-elected, its government is committed to the development of the tourism sector to generate economic growth and employment in the state. This paper first provides estimates of the economic contribution of tourism to Andhra Pradesh. It then articulates a vision for the state to the year 2020, identifyin…
The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective
Genocide, mass murder and human rights abuses are arguably the most perplexing and deeply troubling aspects of recent world history. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and Imperial…
Destination Competitiveness: Determinants and Indicators
The paper develops a model of destination competitiveness that will enable comparisons between countries and between tourism sector industries. The model seeks to capture the main elements of competitiveness highlighted in the general literature, while appreciating the special issues involved in exploring the notion of destination competitiveness as emphasised by tourism researchers. Associated with the model is a set of indicators that can be us…
Mission statements of international airlines: A content analysis
Evaluating tourism's economic effects: New and Old Approaches
International Handbook on the Economics of Tourism
This highly accessible and comprehensive Handbook presents a cutting edge discussion of the state of tourism economics and its likely directions in future research. Leading researchers in the field explore a wide range of topics including: demand and forecasting, supply, transport, taxation and infrastructure, evaluation and application for policy-making. Each chapter includes a discussion of its relevance and importance to the tourism economics …
The Effects of Restrictive Business Practiceson Australian Inbound Package Tourism
International visitors to Australia on package tours have expressed concern about aspects of their holiday experience. These aspects relate to restrictive business practices on the part of inbound tour operators. The origin markets most affected are China, Korea and Taiwan in particular, and, to a lesser extent, Japan. This paper first sets out the nature of the restrictive business practices and then discusses their underlying causes. It then es…
A Politics of Silences: Violence, Memory, and Treacherous Speech in Post-1965 Bali
Tourism (45 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (43 works) · Economics (37 works) · Political science (36 works) · Business (35 works) · Geography (28 works) · Marketing (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Cruise Tourism Development and Management (18 works) · Regional science (18 works)