The Tourism Research Centre is interested in several areas of tourism research, including:

Parks (e.g. provincial and national) and resorts (e.g. Asessippi, Gimli)

Agritourism (e.g. activities and accommodations)

Nature-based tourism – passive and active (e.g. ecotourism and adventure tourism)

Culture and heritage tourism (e.g. art galleries and museums)

Aboriginal tourism (e.g. art, souvenir trade, and destination)

Event-tourism (e.g. communities, music, arts, agricultural, sport)

Rural tourism and community development (e.g. diversification, heritage preservation)

Recent Research Activities:

Kenneth Beesley – Horse industry, Rural-Urban Fringe.

Derrek Eberts – Craft and Artisanal Industries and Community Development.

John Everitt – Cultural Tourism.

Chris Malcolm – Nature Based and Cultural Tourism.

Daniel Olsen – Heritage Tourism, Religious Tourism, Tourism and Disabilities, Tourism in Peripheral Areas.

Sekayi Pswarayi – Tourism Marketing

Doug Ramsey – Cultural/Heritage and Agritourism – Maritimes and Prairies.

Sample Publications and Presentations:

Robert Annis

Cameron, S., Annis, R. C., & Everitt, J. (2005). Internet connectivity: A Churchill, Manitoba case study. Journal of Rural and Community Development 1(1), 32-45.

Ramsey, D., Annis, R. C., & Everitt, J. (2003). The rural community in Westman: Theoretical and empirical considerations. In R. Blake, & A. Nurse (Eds.), The trajectories of rural life: New perspectives on rural Canada (1-10). Regina SK: Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina.

Ken Beesley

Lovett, C., & Beesley, K. B. (2007). Where to live? Rural Canada’s creative class and residential preferences. Prairie perspectives: Geographical essays 10: 47-66.

Beesley, K. B., & Zehtab-Martin, A. (2007). Immigrant service gaps in a small city: Brandon, MB. Our Diverse Cities, 3 (Summer 2007).

Beesley, K. B. (July, 2007). Dimensions of Canadian equiculture: Associations, events, and tourism. The Sixth Quadrennial Conference of British, Canadian, and American Rural Geographers. The Global Rural: Rural Change, Connections and Scale, Spokane, USA.

Beesley, K. B. (2005). Regional city, rural-urban fringe, rurality: Change and sustainability. Manitoba Planning Conference, Brandon, MB.

Beesley, K. B., & Bucklaschuk, J. (2004). Equi-culture: Perspectives on events. Portland, Maine: NESTVAL.

Derrek Eberts

Eberts, D., & Ramsey, R. D. (2010). On the fringe of green: Golf as an urban-rural interface land use activity. In K. Beesley (Ed.), The Rural-Urban Fringe: Conflict and Controversy.

Eberts, D. (November, 2008). Heterolocalism and heritage dissonance in an ethnic recreational landscape: Ontario ‘s Polish cottage country. Paper presented at Re-Exploring Canadian Space, an International and Multidisciplinary Conference hosted by The Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Groningen , Groningen , The Netherlands.

Eberts, D. (March, 2008). Tourism and the commodification of culture: Exploring the geography of restaurants in downtown Puerto Vallarta . Paper presented at the 3rd Biennial Rural Issues and Insights: Tourism Development Conference, Rural Development Institute, Brandon , MB .

Eberts, D. (September, 2007). Tacos or tequila? Tourism and the commodification of culture: Exploring the Geography of Restaurants in Downtown Puerto Vallarta . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Prairie Division, Weyburn , SK.

Eberts, D., & Ramsey, D. (October, 2003). Craft production and tourism in rural Manitoba . Paper presented at The Future of Rural Peoples: Rural Economy, Healthy People, Environment, Rural Communities (Fifth International Symposium of the Institute of Agricultural , Rural and Environmental Health), Saskatoon , SK.

John Everitt

John Everitt, Bryan H. Massam, Rosa M. Chávez-Dagostino, Rodrigo Espinoza Sanchez, Edmundo Andrade Romo. Imprints of tourism on Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. The Canadian Geographer 52(1), 83-104.

Ramsey, R. D., & Everitt, J. (2008). Tourism as a development strategy in Belize, Central America. Caribbean Tourism Research Journal 1(1).

Ramsey, R. D., & Everitt, J. (2007). Route-based Tourism Development and the ‘Turkey Trail’ in Manitoba, Canada. Prairie Forum 32(1), 87-110.

Bryan H. Massam, John Everitt, Rosa M. Chávez-Dagostino, Rodrigo Espinoza Sanchez, Edmundo Andrade Romo. (February 2007). Holiday in the sun: the impacts of tourism on Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. Discussion Paper No. 58. (Department of Geography, York University) ISBN 978-1-55014-480-2.

John Everitt, Bryan H. Massam, Edmundo Andrade Romo, Rosa M. Chávez-Dagostino, Maria del Carmen Cortés Lara, Amilcar Cupul-Magaña, Rodrigo Espinoza Sanchez, Luis Fernando González-Guevara, Rafael García de Quevedo-Machain, María del Carmen Navarro Rodríguez, Alma R. Raymundo-Huizar, Laura Gabriela Hernández Cahou, Jorge Ricardo Chávez Arce, Roberto Hernández Cahou, Carlos Munguía Fragoso. (2005). Footprints on Puerto Vallarta: Social spaces and environmental impacts working paper #2005-12. Brandon, MB: Rural Development Institute, Brandon University.

Mosset, K. L., Everitt, J. C., & Malcolm, C. D. (2005). An exploration of recreation and tourism in Brandon, Manitoba. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays 8 (74-92).

Chris Malcolm

Malcolm, C. D., & Jago, L. M. (2004). Birding as a tool for conservation: Preliminary development of an educational program to increase environmental awareness in the Assiniboine River Valley in Brandon, Manitoba. Prairie Perspectives, vol. 7.

Malcolm, C. D., & Duffus, D. A. (2003). Can whale-watching convey an important message of conservation?: An initial perspective from British Columbia, Canada. Prairie perspectives: Geographical essays, 6 (175-190). Winnipeg, MB: University of Winnipeg Printing Services.

Malcolm, C. D., Wilson, H. F., & Champagne, J. (2003). Yellow rail census and birder visitation at Douglas Marsh, summer 2003: A pilot study to establish research and conservation needs. Submitted to the Douglas Marsh Community Action Committee, Brandon, MB, November.

Malcolm, C. D. (2004). Birding for conservation. Riverbank Review, Spring, 7.

Daniel Olsen

Olsen, D. H. (2009). “The strangers within our gates”: Managing visitors at temple square. Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 6(2), 121-139.

Olsen, D. H., & Timothy, D. J. (2007). Contested religious heritage: Differing views of Mormon heritage. In D. J. Timothy (Ed.), The political nature of cultural heritage and tourism. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate (previously published in Tourism Recreation Research [2002]).

Olsen, D. H. (2006). Religion and tourism: management and planning issues. In J. Cukier. (Ed.), Tourism research: Policy, planning, and prospects (249-272). Waterloo, Ontario: Department of Geography Publication Series.

Olsen, D. H. (2006). Management issues for religious heritage attractions. In D. J. Timothy and D. H. Olsen. (Eds.), Tourism, religion & spiritual journeys (104-118). London and New York: Routledge.

Olsen, D. H., & Timothy, D. J. (2006). Tourism and religious journeys. In D. J. Timothy and D. H. Olsen (Eds.), Tourism, religion & spiritual journeys (1-21). London and New York: Routledge.

Timothy, D. J., & Olsen, D. H. (Eds.). (2006). Tourism, religion & spiritual journeys. London and New York: Routledge.

Olsen, D. H. (2003). Heritage, tourism, and the commodification of religion. Tourism Recreation Research, 28(3), 99-104.

Timothy, D. J., & Olsen, D. H. (2001). Challenges and opportunities of marginality in the Arctic: A case of tourism in Greenland. Tourism, 49(4), 299-308.

Doug Ramsey

Ramsey, D., & Everitt, J. (2008). If you dig it, they will come! Archaeology Heritage Sites and Tourism Development in Belize, Central America. Tourism Management, 29, 909-916.

Ramsey, D., & Everitt, J. (2008). You better Belize it! The Development of Tourism in Belize, Central America. Tourism Research Journal, 1(1), 1-14.

Ramsey, D., & Everitt, J. (2007). Route-based tourism development and the ‘turkey trail’ in Manitoba. Prairie Forum 31(2), 87-110.

Ramsey, D. (2003). Preservation and promotion of heritage in Westman: A rural tourism example in Manitoba. In D. Bruce, & G. Lister (Eds.), Opportunities and actions in the new rural economy (47-66). Sackville, NB: Rural and Small Town Programme.

Ramsey, D. (1999). Cultural heritage, tourism and the college of piping and Celtic performing arts of Canada in Prince Edward Island. In Daugherty, C.M. (Ed.). Proceedings of Sustaining Rural Environments: Issues in Globalization, Migration and Tourism (103-116). Flagstaff, Arizona: University of Northern Arizona.