Dr Carl Cater

B Science (Hons), M Arts (Science, Society and Space), PhD

Lecturer, Griffith Business School

Contact details for Dr Carl Cater

Research expertise

  • Adventure tourism
  • Astrotourism (space tourism)
  • Ecotourism
  • Human Geography
  • The beach
  • The tourist gaze and embodiment
  • Tourist experiences

Current teaching areas

  • Tourism Planning and Development
  • Qualitative Research methods
  • Adventure Tourism

Publications

Refereed journal articles

  • Cater, C. (forthcoming) Chapter 4: Adventure tourism: Will to Power? In Church, A. and Coles, T. (Eds.) Tourism, Power and Space. Routledge, London.
  • Cater, C. and Cater, E. (forthcoming) Marine Ecotourism. CABI, Oxford.
  • Cater, C. and Smith, L. (2003) Chapter 11: Adventure in rural tourism in Cloke, P. Country Visions. Pearson.
  • Cater, C. (2002) Beyond the Gaze: The reflexive tourist and the search for Embodied Experience. (PhD Abstract) Tourism Geographies 4:4:466-467
  • Cater, C. and Cater E. (2001) Marine Environments. Chapter 17 in Weaver, D. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Ecotourism CABI, Oxford.
  • Cater, C. (2000) Can I play too? Exclusion and inclusion in Adventure Tourism. In North West Geographer, 3:2: 50-60.

Conference papers

  • Cater, C (2004) Not just a Surfer's Paradise: Planning and politics for Gold Coast ocean beaches. CAUTHE Conference, Brisbane, February 2004.
  • Buckley, R and Cater, C (2003) Skilled Commercial Adventure Recreation in Remote Areas Tourism at the Limits, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 2003.
  • Cater, C (2003) The final frontier?; opportunities for astrotourism. Tourism at the Limits, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 2003.
  • Cater, C and Mykletun R J (2003) Selling the Extreme: Marketing adventure destinations in New Zealand and Norway. Tourism at the Limits, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, December 2003.
  • Cater, C (2003) Whitewater Wow! The experience of commercial adventure tourism. 12th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research, Stavanger, Norway, October 2003.
  • Cater, C (2003) Beyond the Gaze: The embodied landscapes of adventure tourism. Association of American Geographers 99th Annual Conference, New Orleans, March 2003.
  • Cater C (2002) Tourism on the edge; the search for embodied experiences in adventure in Coles, T. and Schnell, P. (Eds.) Tourism and Leisure Research in the New Millennium: Progress in the German- and English-Speaking Worlds. Conference Proceedings. Exeter (UK), University of Exeter Tourism Research Group, (p31-43).
  • Cater, C (2002) Bodies in Action: The performative geography of adventure tourism. Seminar presented to the Mobilities Research Group, Sociology Department, Lancaster University, 10th December 2002.
  • Cater, C (2002) The performative geography of adventure tourism. Tourism and Performance Seminar as part of ESRC project on Accessing Identity Keele Management Centre 5th November 2002.
  • Cater, C (2002) Emotions on the edge: The emotional geography of adventure tourism. Emotional Geographies, Lancaster University, September 2002.
  • Cater, C (2002) Tourism on the edge; the search for embodied experiences in adventure. Tourism and leisure research in the new millenium: progress in the German- and English-speaking worlds. Westfälisch-Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, Germany, September, 2002.
  • Cater, C (2002) 5,4,3,2,1; Tourism opportunities at the final frontier? Tourism Research 2002, Cardiff, September 2002.
  • Cater, C (2002) Thrills and Spills: Adventure Tourism in New Zealand. APTA 2002, Dailan, China, July 2002.
  • Raines, P. Cater, C. and Cater, E. (2002) Between the devil and the deep blue sea: dilemmas for marine ecotourism. Asia Pacific Ecotourism Conference, Fiji Islands, April 2002.
  • Cater, C. (2001) Life is a beach? The evolution and the contested nature of the touristic search for sand. GTLRG postgraduate session, RGS-IBG conference, Plymouth 2001.
  • Cater, C. (2000) Performing adventure. Enacting geographies session. AAG conference, Pittsburgh 2000.
  • Cater, C. (2000) New rural spaces: adventure tourism in Queenstown, New Zealand. RGSG/CRTSF session, RGS-IBG conference, Brighton 2000.

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