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  1. Volunteer Tourism

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  2. Exploring Student Engagement in Sustainability Education and Study Abroad

    Article • Sustainability, November 2021, MDPI AG

    DONALD Rubin, Dr Stephen L Wearing

  3. ‘Drought tourism’ as compassion

    Article • Annals of Tourism Research, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  4. Digital gaming culture in Vietnam: an exploratory study

    Article • Leisure Studies, February 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  5. Host communities and last chance tourism

    Article • Tourism Geographies, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  6. Engaging volunteer tourism in post-disaster recovery in Nepal

    Article • Annals of Tourism Research, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  7. Exploring tripartite praxis for the REDD + forest climate change initiative through community based ecotourism

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  8. Conceptualising networks in sustainable tourism development

    Article • Tourism Management Perspectives, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  9. The ‘volunteer tourist gaze’: commercial volunteer tourists’ interactions with, and perceptions of, the host community in Cusco, Peru

    Article • Current Issues in Tourism, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  10. Social psychology, consumer culture and neoliberalism: A response to Phelps and White (2018)

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, May 2019, Wiley

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  11. Establishing academic leadership praxis in sustainable tourism: lessons from the past and bridges to the future

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Simon Darcy, Dr Stephen L Wearing

  12. ‘Poor children on Tinder’ and their Barbie Saviours: towards a feminist political economy of volunteer tourism

    Article • Leisure Studies, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  13. Repertory grids and the measurement of levels of community support for rural ecotourism development

    Article • Journal of Ecotourism, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  14. Women of the Kokoda: From Poverty to Empowerment in Sustainable Tourism Development

    Article • Tourism Culture & Communication, March 2018, Cognizant Communication Corporation

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  15. Evaluating volunteer tourism: has it made a difference?

    Article • Tourism Recreation Research, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  16. Consumer spaces as political spaces: A critical review of social, environmental, and psychogeographical research

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, July 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  17. Understanding the tourist experience of cities

    Article • Annals of Tourism Research, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  18. A rite of passage? Exploring youth transformation and global citizenry in the study abroad experience

    Article • Tourism Recreation Research, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  19. Social Psychology, Consumer Culture and Neoliberal Political Economy

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  20. Ecotourism social media initiatives in China

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  21. Journeys of creation: experiencing the unknown, the Other and authenticity as an epiphany of the self

    Article • Tourism Recreation Research, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  22. Exploring outcomes of community-based tourism on the Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea: a longitudinal study of Participatory Rural Appraisal techniques

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  23. Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: a collision of two spaces in sustainable agriculture

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  24. Other

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  25. The Nature of Aesthetics: How Consumer Culture Has Changed Our National Parks

    Article • Tourism Review International, December 2015, Cognizant Communication Corporation

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  26. Time as culture: exploring its influence in volunteer tourism

    Article • Tourism Recreation Research, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  27. A social representation approach to facilitating adaptive co-management in mountain destinations managed for conservation and recreation

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  28. WWOOFing in Australia: ideas and lessons for a de-commodified sustainability tourism

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  29. Scientific Tourism

    Article • May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  30. Flâneur/Flânerie

    Article • March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  31. Leisure and Consumption

    Article • March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  32. Leisure in a world of ‘com-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter-puter, puter games’: a father and son conversation

    Article • Annals of Leisure Research, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  33. Exploring the Global in Student Assessment and Feedback for Sustainable Tourism Education

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  34. Medical Volunteer Tourism as an Alternative to Backpacking in Peru

    Article • Tourism Planning & Development, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  35. Does Bear do it for you? Gen-Y gappers and alternative tourism

    Article • Annals of Leisure Research, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  36. ALR special issue - ‘Alternative’ cultures and leisure: creating pathways for sustainable livelihoods

    Article • Annals of Leisure Research, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  37. Global Citizenship as a Learning Outcome of Educational Travel

    Article • Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  38. Whale Watching as Ecotourism: How Sustainable is it?

    Article • Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal, February 2014, UTS ePress

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  39. Volunteer tourism: A review

    Article • Tourism Management, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  40. Does consensus work? A case study of the Cloughjordan ecovillage, Ireland

    Article • Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal, August 2013, UTS ePress

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  41. Consumer culture, the mobilisation of the narcissistic self and adolescent deviant leisure

    Article • Leisure Studies, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  42. Global citizenry, educational travel and sustainable tourism: evidence from Australia and New Zealand

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  43. Field guide to case study research in tourism, hospitality, and leisure

    Article • Anatolia, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  44. Social Psychology and Theories of Consumer Culture

    Article • March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  45. Exploring sustainable tourism education in business schools: The honours program

    Article • Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  46. A Reconceptualisation of the Self in Humanistic Psychology: Heidegger, Foucault and the Sociocultural Turn

    Article • Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, January 2013, Brill

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  47. THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES

    Article • Annals of Tourism Research, October 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  48. A Review of “Tourism and Sustainable Development: Reconsidering a Concept of Vague Policies”

    Article • Tourism Geographies, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  49. Understanding communities’ views of nature in rural industry renewal: the transition from forestry to nature-based tourism in Eden, Australia

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  50. Reflections on the Ambiguous Intersections between Volunteering and Tourism

    Article • Leisure Sciences, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  51. Gap year volunteer tourism

    Article • Annals of Tourism Research, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  52. From whaling to whale watching: examining sustainability and cultural rhetoric

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  53. The sociology of tourism: European origins and developments

    Article • Tourism Management, June 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  54. Inclusiveness of the ‘Othered’ in Tourism

    Article • Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal, May 2011, UTS ePress

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  55. Free Willy: the whale‐watching legacy

    Article • Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, April 2011, Emerald

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  56. Ecotourism and Environmental Sustainability: Principles and Practices

    Article • Tourism Management, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  57. Understanding local power and interactional processes in sustainable tourism: exploring village–tour operator relations on the Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  58. A Response to Jim Butcher and Peter Smith's Paper ‘Making a Difference’: Volunteer Tourism and Development

    Article • Tourism Recreation Research, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  59. Tourist Cultures: Identity, Place and the Traveller

    Article • January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  60. Tourism as an Interpretive and Mediating Influence: A Review of the Authority of Guidebooks in Protected Areas

    Article • Tourism Analysis, December 2009, Cognizant Communication Corporation

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  61. Public–private partnerships and contested cultural heritage tourism in national parks: a case study of the stakeholder views of the North Head Quarantine Station (Sydney, Australia)

    Article • Journal of Heritage Tourism, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  62. Tourism Development: Government, Industry, Policy and Planning

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  63. Could the ‘Real’ Ecotourist Please Stand Up!

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  64. Ecotourism and Protected Areas: Visitor Management for Sustainability

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  65. Ecotourism: A Model for Sustainable Development?

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  66. Departure: Surveying the Ground

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  67. Ecotourism Case Studies

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  68. Marketing Ecotourism: Meeting and Shaping Expectations and Demands

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  69. Introduction to the special issue on volunteer tourism

    Article • Annals of Leisure Research, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  70. Linking Conservation and Communities: Community Benefits and Social Costs

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  71. The Role of Interpretation in Achieving a Sustainable Future

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  72. If Ecotourism is Not Just an Activity But a Philosophy, Which Philosophy?

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  73. The nature of peak experience in wilderness.

    Article • The Humanistic Psychologist, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  74. Everyday Multiculturalism

    Article • January 2009, Nature

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  75. Pro-Poor Tourism: Who Benefits? Perspectives on Tourism and Poverty Reduction

    Article • Annals of Tourism Research, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  76. Narcissism and Neo-Liberalism : Work, Leisure, and Alienation in an Era of Consumption

    Article • Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  77. Moving Beyond Conspicuous Leisure Consumption: Adolescent Women, Mobile Phones and Public Space

    Article • Leisure Studies, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  78. Reply to Jim Butcher’s Response (Vol. 14 No. 3) to ‘Building a Decommodified Research Paradigm in Tourism: The Contribution of NGOs’ (Vol. 13, No. 5)

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  79. "Rereading the Subjugating Tourist" in Neoliberalism: Postcolonial Otherness and the Tourist Experience

    Article • Tourism Analysis, June 2006, Cognizant Communication Corporation

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  80. Enchanted Parklands

    Article • Australian Geographer, March 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing, Dr Denis Byrne

  81. Book Reviews Section

    Article • Annals of Leisure Research, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  82. De-Constructing Wonderland: Surfing Tourism in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

    Article • Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, March 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  83. Global ecotourism policies and case studies perspectives and constraints

    Article • Tourism Management, August 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  84. Book Reviews

    Article • Annals of Leisure Research, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  85. Interconnected Worlds: Tourism in Southeast Asia

    Article • Annals of Tourism Research, July 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  86. Volunteer Tourism

    Article • Tourism Recreation Research, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  87. Seeking Self: Leisure and Tourism on Common Ground

    Article • World Leisure Journal, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  88. Challenging interpretation to discover more inclusive models: The case of adventure tour guiding

    Article • World Leisure Journal, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  89. Conceptualizing the selves of tourism

    Article • Leisure Studies, April 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  90. Conceptualizing the selves of tourism

    Article • Leisure Studies, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  91. Refiguring Self And Identity Through Volunteer Tourism

    Article • Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, September 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  92. Smoking as a fashion accessory in the 90s: conspicuous consumption, identity and adolescent women's leisure choices

    Article • Leisure Studies, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  93. Article • The Environmentalist, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  94. Decommodifying Ecotourism: rethinking global-local interactions with host Communities

    Article • Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  95. AN APPROACH TO TRAINING FOR INDIGENOUS ECOTOURISM DEVELOPMENT

    Article • World Leisure & Recreation, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  96. Assessing and managing the sociocultural impacts of ecotourism: revisiting the Santa Elena rainforest project

    Article • The Environmentalist, June 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  97. Refocussing the tourist experience: the flaneur and the choraster

    Article • Leisure Studies, January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  98. Interpretation in Environmental Education—An Introduction to the Papers in this Issue

    Article • Australian Journal of Environmental Education, January 1996, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  99. PROFESSIONALISATION AND ACCREDITATION OF ECOTOURISM

    Article • World Leisure & Recreation, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  100. Adolescent women, identity and smoking: leisure experience as resistance.

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, November 1994, Wiley

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  101. Ecotourism: The Santa Elena rainforest project

    Article • The Environmentalist, June 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  102. Identity and the commodification of leisure

    Article • Leisure Studies, January 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  103. Rainforest tourism

    Article • Tourism Management, September 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  104. ‘All in a day's leisure’: gender and the concept of leisure

    Article • Leisure Studies, May 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  105. The Leisured Nature of Tourism

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  106. Volunteering and Events

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  107. Marketing National Parks Using Ecotourism as a Catalyst: Towards a Theory and Practice

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Stephen L Wearing

  108. Breaking down the System: How Volunteer Tourism Contributes to New Ways of Viewing Commodified Tourism

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Stephen L Wearing