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Joseph M Cheer

Lecturer, Graduate Tourism Program

Associate Director, Australia & International Tourism Research Unit (AITRU)

MTour (Monash), PG Dip Arts Research (Monash), BBus Tourism (UQ); PG Cert Entrep & Innovation (Swinburne); PG Dip Tourism Development (VU)

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Recent Grants and Awards

Joseph was a joint recipient of the Faculty of Arts Dean's Teaching Awards in 2010.  Joseph is also a recipient of a Faculty of Business and Economics PhD Scholarship and is currently undertaking PhD research in the Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics.

Biography

Joseph is currently teaching in the Graduate Tourism program at the National Centre for Australia Studies, School of Journalism Australian and Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts.  Joseph is researching the emerging area of propoor tourism.  His current focus is on tourism and sustainable livelihoods in the South Pacific region. Prior to joining Monash, Joseph worked in the international development field in the South Pacific as part of a tourism industry capacity building and training project funded by AusAID.

Joseph has also taught in tourism studies at Swinburne University of Technology.  Before joining academia, he held a number of operational and management roles within the international hotel industry including Hilton International Hotels, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and the Savoy Park Plaza International. 

The title of Joseph's PhD is TOURISM AT THE EDGE: Comparing Tourism Livelihoods in Two Outer Island Communities in Vanuatu and Fiji.

Research Interests

Joseph's broad research interests are in the areas of propoor tourism and the development of sustainable livelihoods, Pacific Island tourism, tourism-led foreign aid interventions, aid effectiveness, culture and heritage management, destination marketing, postcolonial development, responsible tourism and analysis of tourism impacts in developing countries.

Keywords

Propoor Tourism, Sustainable Tourism Development, International Development, Foreign Aid, Sustainable Livelihoods, Pacific Islands, Culture and Heritage Management, Fiji, Vanuatu and Cruise Tourism.

Teaching

  • APG4709 Sustainable tourism development and planning
  • APG4710 Cultural tourism and special events
  • APG5717 Applied industry research
  • APG4390 Contemporary Issues in Tourism

Articles and Book Chapters

Cheer, J. (2010) ‘Kicking Goals or Off-side: Is tourism development in the Pacific helping progress towards the MDGs?’ Pacific Economic Bulletin, Volume 25(1):151-161.

Cheer, J. & Peel, V. (2011) ‘The Tourism––Foreign Aid Nexus in Vanuatu: Future Directions,’ Tourism Planning & Development, Volume 8(3): 253-264.

Cheer, J., Reeves, K. (2012) ‘Roots Tourism: Slavery and the South Sea Islander Diaspora.’ Tourism Analysis, Special Issue on Diaspora Tourism.

Cheer, J. (2012) ‘Outer Island Tourism in the South Pacific and the Millennium Development Goals: Understanding Tourism's Impacts.’ In Bricker, K., Black, R. & Cotterell, S. (Eds.) Ecotourism/Sustainable Tourism and The MDGs. Jones & Bartlett: Sudbury, MA.

Cheer, J., Laing, J. & Reeves, K (under revision) ‘Tourism and contested culture: land diving in Vanuatu’.

Conferences/Paper Presentations

2011 Cheer, J. & Reeves, K. (2011) ‘Debunking Paradise: Chief Roi Mata’s Domain and the Reimagining of Place in Vanuatu.’ Islands & Small States Tourism Conference, Suva, Fiji – 12-14 September 2011 - http://www.usp.ac.fj/index.php?id=10075.

2011 Cheer, J. & Sobocinska, A. (2011) ‘Revisiting O’Rourke’s Cannibal Tours: Towards Shaping Tourist Consciousness.’ Islands & Small States Tourism Conference, Suva, Fiji – 12-14 September 2011 - http://www.usp.ac.fj/index.php?id=10075.

2011 Cheer J.  ‘Tourism and Tradition.’ Paper presented at Tourism Creating a Brilliant Blend, CAUTHE 2011 February 8-11, Uni SA, Adelaide - http://www.fcconventions.com.au/CAUTHE2011/.

2011 Cheer, J. ‘Tourism and Livelihoods in the South Pacific.’ Paper presented at Tourism Creating a Brilliant Blend, CAUTHE 2011 February 8-11, Uni SA, Adelaide - http://www.fcconventions.com.au/CAUTHE2011/.

2010 Cheer, J. ‘Colonial Australia, Blackbirding and Tourism: Reconciliation in Vanuatu.’  Presented at Found in Translation Conference, Monash University, Prato Italy, 21-26 September 2010 - http://foundintranslation.com.au/.

2010 Cheer, J. ‘Tourism-led aid interventions in Vanuatu: A stakeholder-centric view.’Presented at Oceanic Transformations, 3rd Conference of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies, Melbourne 8-11 April 2010 - http://www.aaaps.edu.au/?q=node/358.

2009 Cheer, J. ‘Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: Examining the Efficacy of Tourism Development in the Pacific.’ Presented at Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Old Problems, New Challenges, La Trobe University, Melbourne 30 November - Tuesday 1 December 2009 - http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humansecurity/MDGconference.html.

Professional Memberships

  • Association of American Geographers
  • Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS)
  • Australian Institute of Geographers (AIG)
  • Australia International Tourism Research Unit, Monash University (AITRU)
  • Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE)
  • International Ecotourism Society (IETS)
  • The Institute of Postcolonial Studies