R Scheyvens
Biographic Data
| ID | 8537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Scheyvens |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheyvens |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEYVENS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4227-4910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 529 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Regenerating tourism and regenerating people: How tourism is achieving justice for Indigenous youths
In 2023 a novel Indigenous tourism venture was launched. This initiative, Native Nations – Tracing Indigenous Footsteps, offers a culturally immersive overseas exchange programme for Indigenous youths. It seeks to build solidarity, uplift youths, offer emancipatory tourism experiences, heal injustice, and reconnect them to sources of their strength and identity. As such, it offers an alternative approach and ethos to dominant approaches to touris…
Taking (anti‐)‘woke’ seriously: The future of development cooperation and humanitarian aid
Making tourism geographies: A tribute to Alan A. Lew's lifework
This collection of responses to Alan Lew’s 2024 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting Special Lecture in Honolulu, Hawai’i, Why Travel? (Lew, 2024), reflects his enduring influence on the field of tourism geographies and its growth as a vibrant community of practice. As the founding Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Geographies, Alan pioneered an inclusive, interdisciplinary vision for the field, shaping its trajectory for decades. Tr…
International development and tourism geographies
This commentary reviews the state of tourism and international development scholarship with special attention to publications from this journal, Tourism Geographies. Rather than assuming that tourism is the end game, or goal, as a body of researchers tourism geographers have often identified concerns about the exploitative impacts of tourism development on low income communities and countries, and negative environmental implications, especially w…
Spiritual and environmental well‐being: Factors supporting adaptation of Pacific peoples during pandemic times
Most Western models of well‐being focus only on social, mental, financial and physical well‐being. Collecting data on how tourism‐dependent communities in the South Pacific had adapted to the dramatic impacts of the pandemic, we became aware of the significance of spiritual and environmental dimensions of well‐being. We also identified several Pacific well‐being models that incorporate these dimensions. This article thus examines how COVID‐19 loc…
Challenges to Empowerment of Women through Value Chains: The Need to Move from Individual to Relational Empowerment
This article examines the prevailing assumption by donors that connecting smallholder women to value chains will close the gender gap and empower women. Based on a case study of a programme that seeks to empower women through their integration into value chains in Vietnam, the article assesses women's empowerment across four dimensions: economic, psychological, social and political. The authors argue that women's engagement in value chains does n…
Decolonising tourism and development: From orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia
Tourism has been viewed as a development pathway, with alternative tourisms such as volunteer tourism perceived as promising. However, critics have highlighted how white saviourism and Western ideologies of superiority may underpin both development agendas and activities like volunteer tourism. The COVID crisis has impacted both tourism and international development and calls for rethinking. This case study is situated at the intersections of tou…
Pacific peoples and the pandemic: Exploring multiple well-beings of people in tourism-dependent communities
This article aims to examine how the border closures due to Covid-19 have impacted the well-being of Pacific peoples. Many women, men and children living on islands around the South Pacific live in households that depend on tourism income to provide for the majority of their cash needs, thus the pandemic has delivered a devastating financial blow to them. Nevertheless, an online survey combined with interviews in five Pacific countries shows that…
Pacific perspectives on aid and development
We do not use primary data in the editorial
Strategies for success of Indigenous businesses on customary land: Case studies of three Itaukei (Indigenous Fijian) enterprises
This article aims to examine crucial elements that provide a platform for the success of Indigenous businesses based on customary land, drawing on case studies from Fiji. A qualitative, ethnographic, three case study approach was conducted, and talanoa (discussion or talking together in groups or between two people) method was used to collect data guided by the Vanua Research Framework. Four significant themes unfolded from the study in terms of …
Pacific approaches to fundraising in the digital age: Covid ‐19, resilience and community relational economic practices
The aim of this paper is to discuss how community relational economic practices in virtual spaces are effective in building resilience because they are borne of and sustained by familiar traditional Fijian values of collective work and social interdependence. The researchers adopted a pandemic‐induced methodology, conducting online‐based talanoa (fluid conversations between two or more people) with a number of people leading, or involved in, thes…
Tourism, the SDGs and partnerships
In 2019, Massey University in New Zealand hosted the world’s first research conference on tourism and the Sustainable Developments Goal (SDGs). The aims of this conference were to bring together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss (i) challenges to tourism contributing to the SDGs, and (ii) ways in which tourism can deliver on its potential to be more inclusive, equitable and sustainable. The need for diverse actors to work in partnership to …
Te Awa Tupua: Peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism
Te Awa Tupua is an ancestor of the Māori people of Whanganui, and is also the Whanganui River, who in 2017 was formally recognised as a person. While legally conferring personhood upon an element of nature is relatively novel, it recognises a fundamental principle of indigeneity, that all things—human and nonhuman—are related. We explore intersections of peace, justice, and sustainability through Indigenous tourism in case studies of three Māori …
Silver linings around dark clouds: Tourism, Covid‐19 and a return to traditional values, villages and the vanua
The global pandemic has adversely affected tourism globally, particularly in small island states heavily dependent on tourism. The closure of borders to regular flights for over a year in places such as Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands and Vanuatu, where this research was undertaken, has resulted in massive job losses. Many tourism employees have left the once-bustling tourist hubs, returning to villages and family settlements. Such clear urban to rural…
Humanising research: A citizen social science agenda
From a Distance: The 'New Normal' for Researchers and Research Assistants Engaged in Remote Fieldwork
Doing remote fieldwork is a 'new normal' in the COVID-19 pandemic era. It is challenging, but not impossible. With planning and preparation, comprehensive training and ongoing support for Research Assistants (RAs), researchers can overcome the challenges of remote fieldwork. In this article, we reflect on the experience of employing local RAs to support doctoral research involving in-depth household interviews and focus group discussions with eth…
Tourism partnerships: Harnessing tourist compassion to ‘do good’ through community development in Fiji
Resetting tourism post-Covid-19: Why Indigenous Peoples must be central to the conversation
There has been a proliferation of academic articles asserting that COVID-19 presents an opportunity to transform tourism. However, the impact on Indigenous Peoples and their involvement in a tourism reset has not received in-depth consideration. In this paper, we analyse the vulnerability and responses of Indigenous Peoples to the COVID-19 pandemic and explore the merits of an Indigenous rights-based approach to the reimagining of post-COVID-19 t…
Indigenous tourism and the sustainable development goals
This research aims to identify opportunities for the tourism industry to effectively address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ways that respect Indigenous priorities and support development aspirations of Indigenous peoples. We do so via case studies of Indigenous tourism among small-medium sized enterprises in Fiji, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The research finds that the Indigenous tourism enterprises operated in the spirit of…
Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the sustainable development goals
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ratified in 2015, are set to guide global development through to 2030. As an industry, tourism receives considerable attention in development discussions and in planning for development in the Global South, particularly in small island developing states (SIDS). A number of authors see particular prospects in the area of food producer linkages with the tourism industry, based on the notion …
Business serves society: Successful locally-driven development on customary land in the South Pacific
This article examines how land under customary forms of tenure can provide the opportunity for a variety of different forms of economic activity that provide social, economic and cultural returns to communities in ways that other forms of tenure – particularly individualised title – simply could not do. Commentators have regularly asserted that customary practices around land ‘constrain’ economic development and impair investments in the Pacific.…
Cuisine: A new concept for analysing tourism-agriculture linkages
Linking food producers and tourism for the benefit of local communities in developing countries has been on the research agenda since the early 1980s. Scholars have elaborated on why linkages rarely fully materialise and they have identified a multitude of factors. Despite ‘local food’ enthusiasm amongst consumers, little has changed in how the tourism industry in developing countries procures food. Mostly, these linkages have been analysed from …
Donor approaches to food security in the Pacific: Sustainable development goal 2 and the need for more inclusive agricultural development
As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, sustainable development goal 2 (SDG2) specifically seeks to ‘End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture’. However, there is no clear prescription for how this goal should be achieved which allows various donors adopting diverse strategies to all claim they are contributing to SDG2. This article examines whether policies of five donors on food…
Complexities of development management in the 2020s: Aligning values, skills and competencies in development studies
In the context of rapidly evolving development landscapes, the practice of development management has become increasingly complex. Trends, such as a decline in the overall volume of official development assistance, growing domestic inequality and the localisation agenda, are seeing a shift in the way aid is delivered and managed. This is requiring development managers from the Global North to be much more aware of their own values and world view …
Inclusive tourism development
In the light of growing inequality globally, it is important to consider how to make tourism, one of the world's largest industries, more inclusive. This concern is set in the context of, first, the growing use of tourism as a tool for social integration in Europe, not least in relation to making refugees welcome, and second, new expectations in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that development should be inclusive and that the Global Nort…
Ecotourism and the empowerment of local communities
Inclusive tourism development
In the light of growing inequality globally, it is important to consider how to make tourism, one of the world's largest industries, more inclusive. This concern is set in the context of, first, the growing use of tourism as a tool for social integration in Europe, not least in relation to making refugees welcome, and second, new expectations in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that development should be inclusive and that the Global Nort…
Tourism and Poverty Reduction: Issues for Small Island States
The notion that tourism can contribute significantly to poverty reduction strategies is attracting great interest from multilateral institutions, tourism bodies, donors and other organizations around the globe. Tourism is certainly a major contributor to economic development in many small island developing states (SIDS) and often it is the only industry in these countries to consistently demonstrate growth in recent years. However, the growth of …
The Private Sector and the SDGs: The Need to Move Beyond ‘Business as Usual’
In September 2015, world leaders gathered in New York to endorse the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Ban Ki‐moon asserts that the SDGs signal a ‘paradigm shift for people and the planet’ (UN : para. 24). Significantly, under this new agenda there are expectations that businesses, government and civil society actors will be equally responsible for progressing a more sustainable path forward. Many assert that the private sector has particular…
Backpacker tourism and Third World development
Gender, ethics and empowerment
Tourism, Land Tenure and Poverty Alleviation in Fiji
Tourism has been proposed as a sustainable livelihood option for indigenous communities all around the world. In many of these communities poverty rates are high, and assets such as land may be held communally rather than by individuals. This raises the question, seldom discussed in the pro-poor tourism or tourism and development literature, of whether high rates of communal landownership are, in fact, conducive to sustainable and equitable parti…
Poor cousins no more: Valuing the Development Potential of Domestic and Diaspora Tourism
In many countries there is an insidious perception that domestic tourism is the ‘poorcousin’ of the more glamorous international tourism market. Yet domestic tourism constitutes the vast majority of tourist flows world wide, and there has been significant growth within Third World countries in particular coinciding with an increase in numbers of middle-income earners. Simultaneously there has been a tendency to take for granted return visits by o…
The challenge of sustainable tourism development in the Maldives: Understanding the social and political dimensions of sustainability
Issues of power and politics are central to the development of the tourism sector and its prospects for contributing to sustainable development. This is demonstrated through a case study of the evolution of tourism in the Maldives, a luxury tourism destination where the government has followed a consistent policy of ‘quality tourism’ that has often been cited as a prime example of sustainable tourism. However, recently concerns have been raised a…
Indigenous tourism and the sustainable development goals
This research aims to identify opportunities for the tourism industry to effectively address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ways that respect Indigenous priorities and support development aspirations of Indigenous peoples. We do so via case studies of Indigenous tourism among small-medium sized enterprises in Fiji, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The research finds that the Indigenous tourism enterprises operated in the spirit of…
Linking tourism to the sustainable development goals: A Geographical Perspective
Linking tourism to the sustainable development goals: a geographical perspective." Tourism Geographies, 20(2), pp. 341–342
Business serves society: Successful locally-driven development on customary land in the South Pacific
This article examines how land under customary forms of tenure can provide the opportunity for a variety of different forms of economic activity that provide social, economic and cultural returns to communities in ways that other forms of tenure – particularly individualised title – simply could not do. Commentators have regularly asserted that customary practices around land ‘constrain’ economic development and impair investments in the Pacific.…
Introducing inclusive tourism
ABSTACTTourism is often understood and experienced as an exclusive activity. In supporting the concept of inclusive tourism, this volume seeks to counter that tendency by seeking out ways in which those who are typically marginalized by, or excluded from tourism can be brought into the industry in ways that directly benefit them, or that they can gain more control over tourism. This introduction to the special issue first presents a conceptual ar…
Corporate social responsibility in tourism post-2015: A Development First approach
Most large tourism businesses have corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives that advance environmental, economic and social sustainability. Existing research shows that initiatives often tend to be ad hoc, however, and linked to cost-savings and the reputation of the business. We suggest that this approach equates with Tourism First planning. In response to the greater demands being placed on businesses to act responsibly in the post-201…
Pro-Poor Tourism: Is There Value Beyond the Rhetoric
This Department has been specifically created to include findings of special significance and problem areas of subtle nuances in tourism research. Insightful contributions presenting the state-of-the-art, preferably from the developing societies, will be appreciated. It will also encourage scholars and authors to think against the grain, probing the consistency of theoretical notions and research trends whose heuristic value is all too often take…
From a Distance: The 'New Normal' for Researchers and Research Assistants Engaged in Remote Fieldwork
Doing remote fieldwork is a 'new normal' in the COVID-19 pandemic era. It is challenging, but not impossible. With planning and preparation, comprehensive training and ongoing support for Research Assistants (RAs), researchers can overcome the challenges of remote fieldwork. In this article, we reflect on the experience of employing local RAs to support doctoral research involving in-depth household interviews and focus group discussions with eth…
Enrolling the Private Sector in Community Development: Magic Bullet or Sleight of Hand
The role of the private sector in international development is growing, supported by new and evolving official programmes, financing, partnerships and narratives. This article examines the place of the private sector in 'community development' in the global South. It situates corporate community development (CCD) conceptually in long-standing debates within critical development studies to consider the distinct roles that corporations are playing …
Experimenting with Active Learning in Geography: Dispelling the Myths that Perpetuate Resistance
While some geographers have embraced active learning as a means to engage students in a course, many others stick to conventional teaching methods. They are often deterred by suggestions that it can be difficult to implement active learning where students have no prior knowledge of a subject, that active learning requires too much work of lecturers and students, and that there are significant institutional constraints to implementing active learn…
International development and tourism geographies
This commentary reviews the state of tourism and international development scholarship with special attention to publications from this journal, Tourism Geographies. Rather than assuming that tourism is the end game, or goal, as a body of researchers tourism geographers have often identified concerns about the exploitative impacts of tourism development on low income communities and countries, and negative environmental implications, especially w…
Silver linings around dark clouds: Tourism, Covid‐19 and a return to traditional values, villages and the vanua
The global pandemic has adversely affected tourism globally, particularly in small island states heavily dependent on tourism. The closure of borders to regular flights for over a year in places such as Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands and Vanuatu, where this research was undertaken, has resulted in massive job losses. Many tourism employees have left the once-bustling tourist hubs, returning to villages and family settlements. Such clear urban to rural…
E-Whanaungatanga: The role of social media in Māori political empowerment
Lower voter turnout and lack of political empowerment sees Māori engaging less than Pākehā (European New Zealanders) with the political system to the detriment of Māori development. This paper explores the potential of social media to enhance Māori development via political engagement. Mana Party Facebook pages are used as a case study to investigate if social media can encourage Māori political awareness and participation. Results found that soc…
Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the sustainable development goals
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ratified in 2015, are set to guide global development through to 2030. As an industry, tourism receives considerable attention in development discussions and in planning for development in the Global South, particularly in small island developing states (SIDS). A number of authors see particular prospects in the area of food producer linkages with the tourism industry, based on the notion …
International Students Pursuing Postgraduate Study in Geography: Impediments to their learning experiences
There are significant numbers of international postgraduate students studying in Western universities thanks to scholarships provided by governments and other donors. While these fully funded students are generally welcomed by geography departments, inadequate attention has been paid to considering how to facilitate their learning experiences given the particular impediments they face. Based on research conducted at Massey University, New Zealand…
Women, the environment and sustainable development: Towards a theoretical synthesis
Complexities of development management in the 2020s: Aligning values, skills and competencies in development studies
In the context of rapidly evolving development landscapes, the practice of development management has become increasingly complex. Trends, such as a decline in the overall volume of official development assistance, growing domestic inequality and the localisation agenda, are seeing a shift in the way aid is delivered and managed. This is requiring development managers from the Global North to be much more aware of their own values and world view …
Women, the environment and sustainable development: Towards a theoretical synthesis
Women, Disempowerment and Resistance: An Analysis of Logging and Mining Activities in the Pacific
There are many arguments supporting the need for a reduction of large scale logging and mining activities in Pacific Island countries. In addition to ecological and economic concerns, logging and mining have had significant social impacts, including gendered impacts. Women tend to be excluded from decision‐making processes, and they have limited access to royalty payments and business and employment opportunities which emerge. Women also bear a d…
Engendering' environmental projects: The case of eco-timber production in the Solomon Islands
Worldwide concern for the environment has spawned a new field of interest and expertise within the development assistance industry. Environmental projects have become the new 'darling' of the foreign aid community with donors and practitioners vying for suitable 'eco' projects to support. While this support for the environment mimics the attention the development industry has paid to women (and later, gender), concern for these equally fashionabl…
Ecotourism and the empowerment of local communities
Promoting Women's Empowerment Through Involvement in Ecotourism: Experiences from the Third World
In many parts of the Third World the number of local communities seeking involvement in ecotourism ventures has soared in the past decade. A cogent concern, from a development perspective, is that many such ventures have progressed with scant regard for the changes they may provoke in gender roles, gender relations and access to resources. As with other development initiatives which profess to be 'gender neutral', ecotourism runs the risk of disa…
Gender, ethics and empowerment
Backpacker tourism and Third World development
Church Women's Groups and the Empowerment of Women in Solomon Islands
Throughout the Pacific, church women's groups play an important social and spiritual role in the lives of many indigenous women. However, these groups rarely attract the interest of development practitioners or theorists concerned with the empowerment of women, largely because of their outwardly conservative stance. Preoccupied with sewing classes, pastoral care, and social work, church women's groups appear to epitomize a welfare approach to wom…
International Students Pursuing Postgraduate Study in Geography: Impediments to their learning experiences
There are significant numbers of international postgraduate students studying in Western universities thanks to scholarships provided by governments and other donors. While these fully funded students are generally welcomed by geography departments, inadequate attention has been paid to considering how to facilitate their learning experiences given the particular impediments they face. Based on research conducted at Massey University, New Zealand…
Tourism and the less developed world: Issues and case studies
The political economy of tourism development in Africa
Sun, Sand, and Beach Fale: Benefiting from Backpackers—the Samoan Way
In Samoa, the development of large hotels and resorts has often been thwarted by landowners who refuse to let control of their communally-held resources slip out of their hands. As an alternative livelihood strategy local families have built low-cost beach fale accommodation (consisting of thatched, open-sided beach huts) in prime beach side locations. These beach fale have proven to be popular with backpackers who, contrary to dominant discourse…
Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus
Current discourse surrounding ‘pro-poor tourism’, a term emerging out of the writing of UK researchers in the late 1990s, suggests that tourism can effectively work as a tool to alleviate poverty. This proposition is alluring given that tourism is a significant or growing economic sector in most countries with high levels of poverty. Consequently the idea of utilising tourism to eliminate poverty has been embraced by donors, governments, non-gove…
Poor cousins no more: Valuing the Development Potential of Domestic and Diaspora Tourism
In many countries there is an insidious perception that domestic tourism is the ‘poorcousin’ of the more glamorous international tourism market. Yet domestic tourism constitutes the vast majority of tourist flows world wide, and there has been significant growth within Third World countries in particular coinciding with an increase in numbers of middle-income earners. Simultaneously there has been a tendency to take for granted return visits by o…
Culture and Development in a Globalizing World: Geographies, Actors, and Paradigms – Edited by Sarah A. Radcliffe
Experimenting with Active Learning in Geography: Dispelling the Myths that Perpetuate Resistance
While some geographers have embraced active learning as a means to engage students in a course, many others stick to conventional teaching methods. They are often deterred by suggestions that it can be difficult to implement active learning where students have no prior knowledge of a subject, that active learning requires too much work of lecturers and students, and that there are significant institutional constraints to implementing active learn…
Tourism and Poverty Reduction: Issues for Small Island States
The notion that tourism can contribute significantly to poverty reduction strategies is attracting great interest from multilateral institutions, tourism bodies, donors and other organizations around the globe. Tourism is certainly a major contributor to economic development in many small island developing states (SIDS) and often it is the only industry in these countries to consistently demonstrate growth in recent years. However, the growth of …
New Polynesian Triangle: Rethinking Polynesian migration and development in the Pacific
For many Polynesians migration is still framed within a particular spatial context, although on an enlarged scale – one that we have termed the New Polynesian Triangle. With its apexes in the North American continent to the east, Australia in the west and New Zealand in the south, this New Polynesian Triangle encompasses a particular field through which ongoing Polynesian migration and movement continues to occur. Movement within this New Polynes…
Pro-Poor Tourism: Is There Value Beyond the Rhetoric
This Department has been specifically created to include findings of special significance and problem areas of subtle nuances in tourism research. Insightful contributions presenting the state-of-the-art, preferably from the developing societies, will be appreciated. It will also encourage scholars and authors to think against the grain, probing the consistency of theoretical notions and research trends whose heuristic value is all too often take…
Connections: The Teaching and Learning of Geography at New Zealand Universities
Tourism and Development in the Developing World
The challenge of sustainable tourism development in the Maldives: Understanding the social and political dimensions of sustainability
Issues of power and politics are central to the development of the tourism sector and its prospects for contributing to sustainable development. This is demonstrated through a case study of the evolution of tourism in the Maldives, a luxury tourism destination where the government has followed a consistent policy of ‘quality tourism’ that has often been cited as a prime example of sustainable tourism. However, recently concerns have been raised a…
Tourism and poverty alleviation in Fiji: Comparing the impacts of small- and large-scale tourism enterprises
This paper explores the pro-poor tourism literature's proposition that businesses “at all levels and scales of operation” can contribute to poverty alleviation, and questions the view that small-scale “alternative” forms of tourism development are preferable in delivering wide-ranging benefits to the poor. Based on research in Fiji, it uses the multidimensional view of poverty modelled on Zhao and Ritchie's integrative research framework for “ant…
Tourism and Poverty
Tourism and Poverty addresses a critical question facing many academics, governments, aid agencies, tourism organizations, and conservation bodies around the world: can tourism work as a tool to overcome poverty? This book is the first to present a focused description and critique of the issues surrounding poverty and tourism. Relying on a wealth of primary data on tourism, Regina Scheyvens supports her findings with novel case studies such as in…
Tourism, Land Tenure and Poverty Alleviation in Fiji
Tourism has been proposed as a sustainable livelihood option for indigenous communities all around the world. In many of these communities poverty rates are high, and assets such as land may be held communally rather than by individuals. This raises the question, seldom discussed in the pro-poor tourism or tourism and development literature, of whether high rates of communal landownership are, in fact, conducive to sustainable and equitable parti…
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