Dr Jim Butcher

Research Projects

• “Making a Difference” : Volunteer Tourism and Development. Researcher(s): Mr Peter Smith. Supervisor(s): Dr Chris Bull, Dr Jim Butcher. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• An Investigation Into The Role of Mobile Phones During Visitors Experience When Attending Dark Tourism Destinations/Attractions. Researcher(s): Miss Lorna Mills Sexton Mills. Supervisor(s): Dr Lorna Thomas, Dr Jim Butcher. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mr Avagnale Avagnale. Supervisor(s): Dr Jim Butcher, Dr Hannan Azhar. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Flying with Wheels; A Netnographical Inquiry of the Wheelchair Using Community and their expectations of airline service quality.. Researcher(s): Mrs Elizabeth Aduhene. Supervisor(s): Dr Marion Stuart-Hoyle, Dr Shola Osinaike, Dr Jim Butcher. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Narratives in economics and their impact on fiscal/economic sustainability. Researcher(s): Mr Bryaan Masindo. Supervisor(s): Professor Richard McManus, Dr Jim Butcher. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Organised/formal versus informal leisure: an investigation of parental views of freedom in their children's leisure lives. Researcher(s): Dr David Nash. Supervisor(s): Dr Jim Butcher. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Overtourism: Its meaning and its impact on the host country. Researcher(s): Dr Jim Butcher. [Project report]
• Storytelling in World Heritage Sites: Balancing Authenticity and Modernity for Visitors Experience. Researcher(s): Mr Moyosola Timothy Agboola. Supervisor(s): Dr Jane Lovell, Dr Shola Osinaike, Dr Jim Butcher. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Sustainable tourism planning and policy implementation at selected attractions in Nigeria. Researcher(s): Dr Adenike Adebayo. Supervisor(s): Dr Jane Lovell, Dr Jim Butcher. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• The Challenges of Rural Ecotourism: A Case Study of Thailand. Researcher(s): Miss Titiyawadee Punmanee. Supervisor(s): Dr Jim Butcher, Dr Marion Stuart-Hoyle. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The Role of Whisky Distilleries in Sustainable Heritage Tourism Development (through the lens of SDG 8) - The Case of Speyside Scotland. Researcher(s): Miss Ka Akwuba. Supervisor(s): Dr Zanda Serdane, Dr Jim Butcher. [Postgraduate Research Project]

• Volunteer tourism in the context of development thinking Butcher, J., (01 Mar 2024, Jun 2024): SAGE Publications. [Journal article]
• Community empowerment in Nigeria’s tourism industry: An analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions Adebayo, A., Butcher, J., (01 Oct 2022, 04 Jul 2023): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Debate on de-growth in tourism: reply to Higgins-Desbiolles and Everingham Butcher, J., (15 Oct 2022, 02 Sep 2024): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Why the aftermath of Covid-19 is a good time to critique mass tourism's critics Butcher, J., (2022). Tilburg: ATLAS. [Discussion paper]
• Covid-19, tourism and the advocacy of degrowth Butcher, J., (22 Jul 2021, 03 Sep 2023): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Debating tourism degrowth post COVID-19 Butcher, J., (07 Jun 2021): Elsevier. [Journal article]
• Constructing mass tourism Butcher, Jim, (01 Nov 2020, 25 Mar 2020): SAGE Publications. [Journal article]
• Outsiders as insiders: the benefits of developing a long-term field work relationship with the Maltese islands Butcher, J., Tourism and the Maltese Islands. [Book chapter]
• Should we decolonise geography? Butcher, J., (11 Feb 2020). [Journal article]
• The construction of ‘overtourism’: the case of UK media coverage of Barcelona’s 2017 tourism protests and their aftermath Butcher, J., (31 May 2020), Overtourism Causes, Implications and Solutions: Palgrave Macmillan. [Book chapter]
• The development of mass tourism Butcher, J., The Future Past of Tourism Historical Perspectives and Future Evolutions. Bristol: Channel View. [Book chapter]
• Whither national citizenship? Butcher, J., (2019). [Working paper]
• Questioning the epistemology of decolonise: The case of geography Butcher, J., (06 Nov 2018). [Journal article]
• Tourism management in the Caribbean: The case of Haiti Séraphin, H., Butcher, J., (11 Jun 2018): Taylor and Francis Online. [Journal article]
• Citizenship, global citizenship and volunteer tourism: a critical analysis Butcher, J., (17 Mar 2017): Centre for Tourism Research and Development. [Journal article]
• Review of 'Making Sense of Tourism 1: The Beckoning Horizon. Halifax: Westwood Start by Alan Machin Butcher, J., (2017): Emerald. [Journal article]
• The morality of mass tourism Butcher, J., (26 May 2017), Mass Tourism in a Small World. Wallingford: CABI. [Book chapter]
• Volunteer tourism, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship Butcher, J., (18 Apr 2017): Centre for Tourism Research and Development. [Journal article]
• Challenging the negative images of Haiti at a pre-visit stage using visual online learning materials Séraphin, H., Butcher, J., Korstanje, M., (29 Nov 2016): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• What meaning for sustainability? The politics of ‘good development’ Butcher, J., (04 Dec 2016): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Ethical tourism and development: the personal and the political Butcher, J., (Feb 2015): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Volunteer tourism and development: the lifestyle politics of international development Butcher, J., Smith, P., (15 Jun 2015). London: Routledge. [Book]
• Is there a case for revising the UNWTO's Global Code of Ethics to include a new article on the ethical treatment of animals by the tourism industry? A response to the opinion piece by David Fennell Butcher, J., (2014): Taylor & Francis. [Journal article]
• Moralizing tourism: personal qualities, political issues Butcher, J., (Aug 2014), Moral Encounters in Tourism: Ashgate. [Book chapter]
• Ecotourism and community participation Butcher, J., (Oct 2013), International Handbook on Ecotourism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. [Book chapter]
• Review of 'Generation NGO' ed. by Alisha Nicole Apale and Valerie Stam (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2011) Butcher, J., (2013): Athabasca University Press. [Journal article]
• 'Ethical' travel and well-being: reposing the issues Butcher, J., (2012), Critical Debates in Tourism. Bristol: Channel View. [Book chapter]
• The mantra of community participation in context Butcher, J., (2012), Critical Debates in Tourism. Bristol: Channel View. [Book chapter]
• Volunteer tourism may not be as good as it seems Butcher, J., (2012), Critical Debates in Tourism. Bristol: Channel View. [Book chapter]
• Can ecotourism contribute to tackling poverty? The importance of ‘symbiosis’ Butcher, J., (2011): Routledge. [Journal article]
• Volunteer tourism may not be as good as it seems Butcher, J., (2011): Centre for Tourism Research and Development. [Journal article]
• In defence of the masses on holiday Butcher, J., Association for Tourism and Leisure Education Annual Conference 2010. [Conference keynote]
• Making a difference: volunteer tourism and development Butcher, J., (2010): Centre for Tourism Research and Development. [Journal article]
• The mantra of ‘community participation’ in context Butcher, J., (2010): Centre for Tourism Research and Development. [Journal article]
• Tradition, community and conservation: ecotourism as a development option Butcher, J., (2010), Sustainability, Nature Conservation and Community Development: Perspectives from the Anthropology of Tourism. [Conference keynote]
• Against ethical tourism Butcher, J., (15 Mar 2009), Philosophical Issues in Tourism. Bristol, UK: Channel View. [Book chapter]
• ‘Ethical’ travel and well-being: reposing the issue Butcher, J., (2008). [Journal article]
• Ecotourism as life politics Butcher, J., (May 2008). [Journal article]
• The myth of agency through community participation in ecotourism Butcher, J., (2008), Tourism Development: Growth, Myths and Inequalities. Wallingford: CABI. [Book chapter]
• NGOs, ecotourism and development: a critical analysis Butcher, J.. London: Routledge. [Book]
• A response to building a decommodified research paradigm in tourism: the contribution of NGOs by Stephen Wearing, Matthew McDonald and Jess Ponting Butcher, J., (2006): Routledge. [Journal article]
• Cultural politics, cultural policy and cultural tourism Butcher, J., (2006), Cultural Tourism in a Changing World: Politics, Participation and (Re)presentation. Clevedon: Channel View. [Book chapter]
• Natural capital and the advocacy of ecotourism as sustainable development Butcher, J.. [Journal article]
• The United Nations International Year of Ecotourism: a critical analysis of development implications Butcher, J.. [Journal article]
• The dubious merits of PDP Butcher, J., (Nov 2005). [Journal article]
• The moral authority of ecotourism: a critique Butcher, J., (Mar 2005): Routledge. [Journal article]
• The moralisation of tourism and the ethical alternatives Butcher, J., (26 Aug 2005), Tourism Business Frontiers: Consumers Products and Industry. London, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann. [Book chapter]
• Elend als Urlaubs-Ziel Butcher, J., (18 Jul 2003). [Journal article]
• Ökotourismus - Elend als (Urlaubs-)Ziel Butcher, J., (2003). [Journal article]
• The moralisation of tourism: sun, sand ... and saving the world? Butcher, J.. London: Routledge. [Book]
• Weighed down by ethical baggage Butcher, J., (2002), Ethical Tourism: Who Benefits?: Hodder and Stoughton. [Book chapter]
• Cultural baggage and cultural tourism Butcher, J., (2001), Innovations in Cultural Tourism: ATLAS. [Book chapter]
• New tourism for old Butcher, J., North-South: Contrasts and Connections in Global Tourism, Proceedings of the Seventh ATLAS International Conference. [Conference paper]
• The new tourist as anthropologist Butcher, J., (2000), Motivations, Behaviour and Tourist Types: Reflections in International Tourism. Sunderland: Centre for Travel and Tourism in association with Business Education. [Book chapter]
• Sustainable development or development? Butcher, J., (1997), Tourism and Sustainability: Principles to Practice. Wallingford: CAB International. [Book chapter]