Staff Profiles

Tod has research interests in both tourism and in Indonesian Studies. Tod’s interest in tourism began when he was employed to administer and provide input into a range of projects within the Curtin Sustainable Tourism Centre. He has worked on a range of projects including the economic, social and environmental values of tourism, heritage tourism, and was involved in the development of The Valuing Places Toolkit, an easy to use toolkit that measures the visitor expenditure due to a particular tourism resource. Tod is currently working on developing a destination model for the Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia’s northwest coastal region. Tod has worked with a variety of organisations when undertaking research including the Sustainable Tourism CRC, Department of Environment and Conservation, Tourism WA, the City of Albany, and the Heritage Council. All of the projects have been collaborative with researchers from Curtin University of Technology and other universities.

Tod also has research interests in Indonesia, in particular Indonesian cultural policy, Indonesian contemporary art and popular culture, and cultural citizenship. Tod’s doctoral dissertation, which received a commendation from the chancellor, was on Indonesian cultural policy and he has presented numerous papers on issues relating to Indonesian culture, the arts and politics.

Tod is involved in a range of projects relating to both tourism and Indonesia.

Tod’s tourism research focuses on the social and economic impacts of tourism, including measuring and monitoring human use. Tod is currently involved with six tourism research projects including: developing a tool to measure the economic, social and environmental values of tourism to natural areas: measuring the economic impacts of tourism; developing The Valuing Places Toolkit, which will enable users to measure the expenditure due to their particular tourism resource; developing resources to assist communities develop heritage tourism opportunities; and developing a destination model for the Ningaloo coastline. The destination model will incorporate social, environmental and economic data into a GIS planning tool for the region.

Tod’s tourism research has involved collaboration with a variety of different organisations including the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre, Department of Environment and Conservation (WA), the Heritage Council (WA), Tourism WA, and the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources.

Tod is also continuing his research into cultural policy in Indonesia that he began during his doctoral studies. Indonesian cultural policy, which was previously highly centralised under the Suharto regime, was decentralised in 2001. Indonesia now has an array of cultural policies, ranging from productive relationships with local groups, to no cultural policy at all in some regencies controlled by Islamic political parties. Tod is also undertaking research on cultural citizenship in Indonesia and has written articles and book chapters on popular culture, contemporary art and decentralisation in Indonesia.

• CSTC;
• FACET;
• MARG;
• ASAA.

Books (Authored, Research)

• Chapman, K, Spurr, R, Pambudi, D, Fredline, L, Lewis, A, Hughes, M, Fulton, B, Wood, D, Dwyer, L, Chandler, P, Tien, P, Catlin, J, Jones, T, Jones, R, and Deery , M. 2011. Ningaloo collaboration cluster: Socio-economics of tourism. Western Australia: CSIRO and Curtin University.
• Lewis, A, Jones, R, Pambudi, D, Catlin, J, Chandler, P, Chapman, K, Wood, D, Dwyer, L, Deery , M, Fredline, L, Jones, T, Spurr, R, Hughes, M, Pham, T, and Fulton, B. 2011. Ningaloo Collaboration Cluster: Socioeconomics of Tourism. Hobart, Australia: CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

• Jones, T. 2003. Occupation and Decolonisation: The Japanese Interregnum and Indonesian Modern Fine Art. In Liveable Communities, eds Janis Haswell and Diana MacCallum, 255-268. Perth, Western Australia: Black Swan Press.
• Jones, T. 2002. National Culture, Local Concerns: Debating Otonomi Daerah. In Beyond Jakarta, eds Minako Sakai, 59-79. South Australia: Crawford House Publishing Pty Ltd.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

• Jones, T, Jones, R, and Catlin, J. 2012. Balancing needs: licensing as a means to manage nature based tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 20(2): 163-178.
• Catlin, J, Jones, T, and Jones, R. 2011. Revisiting Duffus and Dearden's Wildlife Tourism Framework. Biological Conservation 144(5): 1537-1544.
• Fulton, E, Wood, D, Jones, T, and Glasson, J. 2011. Regional Planning and Resilent Futures. Planning Practice and Research 26(4): 393-415.
• Jones, T, Wood, D, Fulton, B, and Glasson, J. 2011. Regional Planning and Resilient Futures: Destination Modelling and Tourism Development – the case of the Ningaloo Coastal Region in Western Australia. Planning Practice and Research 26(4): 393-415.
• norman, B, Jones, T, Jones, R, Wood, D, and Catlin, J. 2010. Discovering wildlife tourism: a whale shark tourism case study. Current Issues in Tourism 13(4): 351-361.
• Jones, T, Catlin, J, Wood, D, and norman, B. 2010. Consolidation in a wildlife tourism industry: the changing impact of whale shark tourist expenditure in the Ningaloo Coast region. International Journal of Tourism Research 12(2): 134-148.
• Lockington, D, Walker, P, Jones, T, Cavanagh, L, Schianetz, K, and Wood, D. 2009. The Practicalities of a Learning Tourism Destination: a Case Study of the Ningaloo Coast. International Journal of Tourism Research 11(6): 567-581.
• Catlin, J, Jones, T, Wood, D, and norman, B. 2009. Expenditure and Ecotourism: Predictors of Expenditure for Whale Shark Tour Participants. Journal of Ecotourism 8(1): 32-50.
• Jones, T. 2008. Bomb the base in the bus: Public transport as intersections of a local popular culture in Padang, Indonesia. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22(1): 127-139.
• Jones, T, and Wood, D. 2008. Researching Tourism to the Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, or how the Social Sciences can Collaborate in Researching Complex Problems. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 3(6): 137-144.
• Jones, T. 2007. Liberalism and Cultural Policy in Indonesia. Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 13(4): 441-458.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

• Gorton, R, Dzidic, P, Sporcic, M, De La Mare, W, Fulton, B, Syme, G, Boschetti, F, Little, L, Chapman, K, Jones, T, and Dambacher, G. 2011. A multi-model approach to stakeholder engagement in complex environmental problems. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, 12/12/2011. Perth, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
• Fulton, B, Wood, D, and Jones, T. 2011. Challenging tourism theory through integrated models: how multiple model projects strengthen outcomes through a case study of tourism development on the Ningaloo Coast of Western Australia. 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, 12/11/2011. Perth, Australia: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand,.
• Jones, T, and West, G. 2011. Dynamic Visualisation of Tourism Impact in the Ningaloo Region. 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE7), 23/08/2011. Perth, WA: WALIS.
• Wood, D, Jones, T, and Glasson, J. 2010. Planning Resilient Futures: Modelling the Ningaloo Coastal Region in Western Australia. Council of Australian University Hospitality and Tourism Educators (CAUTHE), 08/02/2010. Hobart, Tasmania: CAUTHE and the University of Tasmania.
• Wood, D, and Jones, T. 2009. The challenges of managing destinations: understanding sustainability and change through destination modelling. See Change: Tourism & Hospitality in a Changing World, 10/02/2009. Fremantle, WA: CAUTHE.
• Jones, T, and Wood, D. 2007. Calculating the Tourist Expenditure Generated by Natural and Heritage Areas: The Valuing Places Toolkit.. Tourism: Past Achievements, Future Challenges, 11/02/2007. Manly, Sydney, Australia: University of Technology, sydney.
• norman, B, Wood, D, Jones, T, and Catlin, J. 2007. Determinants of Spending of Whale Shark Tour Participants.. Tourism: Past Achievements, Future Challenges, 11/02/2007. Manly, Sydney, Australia: University of Technology, sydney.