Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles

6.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
67 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 37 papers in Demography and 11 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles's work include Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (45 papers), Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (36 papers) and Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (16 papers). Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (45 papers), Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (36 papers) and Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (16 papers). Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Canada and United States. Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles's co-authors include Karla Boluk, Gayathri Wijesinghe, Christina T. Cavaliere, Sandro Carnicelli, Kyle Powys Whyte, Emily Moskwa, Raymond Rastegar, Lisa Ruhanen, Regina Scheyvens and Phoebe Everingham and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Tourism Management and Annals of Tourism Research.

In The Last Decade

Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles

61 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice aft... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2020 2017 2019 2020 2019 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice after COVID-19
    2020 628 citations Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles profile →
  2. Sustainable tourism: Sustaining tourism or something more?
    2017 321 citations Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles profile →
  3. Degrowing tourism: rethinking tourism
    2019 317 citations Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles, Sandro Carnicelli et al. Journal of Sustainable Tourism profile →
  4. The “war over tourism”: challenges to sustainable tourism in the tourism academy after COVID-19
    2020 278 citations Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles Journal of Sustainable Tourism profile →
  5. A critical framework for interrogating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda in tourism
    2019 253 citations Karla Boluk, Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles et al. Journal of Sustainable Tourism profile →
  6. COVID-19 and a justice framework to guide tourism recovery
    2021 97 citations Raymond Rastegar, Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles et al. Annals of Tourism Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles Australia 28 3.0k 1.3k 531 519 468 67 3.8k
Regina Scheyvens New Zealand 35 3.7k 1.2× 2.0k 1.5× 791 1.5× 508 1.0× 494 1.1× 87 5.1k
Lisa Ruhanen Australia 32 2.8k 0.9× 715 0.5× 602 1.1× 545 1.1× 253 0.5× 130 3.8k
Cevat Tosun Türkiye 22 3.3k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 910 1.7× 541 1.0× 495 1.1× 40 3.9k
Nancy Gard McGehee United States 35 3.9k 1.3× 2.0k 1.6× 607 1.1× 582 1.1× 483 1.0× 58 5.1k
Dianne Dredge Australia 31 2.8k 0.9× 743 0.6× 672 1.3× 701 1.4× 274 0.6× 96 3.8k
Tazim Jamal United States 36 4.8k 1.6× 1.4k 1.1× 933 1.8× 699 1.3× 796 1.7× 90 6.0k
Gyan P. Nyaupane United States 31 2.8k 0.9× 687 0.5× 575 1.1× 395 0.8× 366 0.8× 77 3.5k
Marina Novelli United Kingdom 20 2.2k 0.7× 633 0.5× 520 1.0× 360 0.7× 252 0.5× 41 2.8k
Kathleen L. Andereck United States 27 4.4k 1.5× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 2.1× 586 1.1× 545 1.2× 73 5.1k
B. Bynum Boley United States 31 2.5k 0.8× 665 0.5× 329 0.6× 838 1.6× 267 0.6× 94 3.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya & Raoul Bianchi. (2024). Towards understanding and managing the politics of tourism in a crisis-challenged world. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 100160–100160.
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Walters, Trudie & Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles. (2024). Opportunity lost: addressing DEI in academic conference design practices. International Journal of Event and Festival Management. 16(3). 318–342. 1 indexed citations
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Rastegar, Raymond, Freya Higgins‐Desbiolles, & Lisa Ruhanen. (2023). Tourism, global crises and justice: rethinking, redefining and reorienting tourism futures. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 31(12). 2613–2627. 29 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya, et al.. (2022). Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 31(12). 2788–2808. 24 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya & Phoebe Everingham. (2022). Degrowth in tourism: advocacy for thriving not diminishment. Tourism Recreation Research. 49(1). 215–219. 15 indexed citations
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Everingham, Phoebe, et al.. (2021). The (im)possibilities of doing tourism otherwise: The case of settler colonial Australia and the closure of the climb at Uluru. Annals of Tourism Research. 88. 103178–103178. 30 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya, et al.. (2021). Peace through tourism: Critical reflections on the intersections between peace, justice, sustainable development and tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 30(2-3). 335–351. 24 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya. (2019). Sustaining spirit: a review and analysis of an urban Indigenous Australian cultural festival. 214–231. 1 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya, et al.. (2019). Degrowing tourism: rethinking tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 27(12). 1926–1944. 317 indexed citations breakdown →
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya & Antonia Canosa. (2018). Not victims nor zoo exhibits: the film <i>My Long Neck</i> and listening to the 'other'. ePublications@SCU (Southern Cross University). 6(3). 237–237. 2 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya, et al.. (2016). Indigenous foods benefiting indigenous Australians. 527. 2 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya, et al.. (2014). The restaurateur as a sustainability pedagogue: the case of Stuart Gifford and Sarah's Sister's Sustainable Café. Annals of Leisure Research. 17(3). 267–280. 20 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya, et al.. (2014). The Coorong Wilderness Lodge: A case study of planning failures in Indigenous tourism. Tourism Management. 44. 46–57. 41 indexed citations
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Lemelin, Raynald Harvey, et al.. (2013). Conflicts, battlefields, indigenous peoples and tourism: addressing dissonant heritage in warfare tourism in Australia and North America in the twenty‐first century. International Journal of Culture Tourism and Hospitality Research. 7(3). 257–271. 31 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya. (2011). Death by a thousand cuts: governance and environmental trade-offs in ecotourism development at Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 19(4-5). 553–570. 35 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya. (2011). The Hotel Bauen’s challenge to cannibalizing capitalism. Annals of Tourism Research. 39(2). 620–640. 20 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya. (2009). Indigenous ecotourism's role in transforming ecological consciousness. Journal of Ecotourism. 8(2). 144–160. 49 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya. (2008). Justice Tourism and Alternative Globalisation. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 16(3). 345–364. 147 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya. (2007). Touring the Indigenous or Transforming Consciousness? Reflections on Teaching Indigenous Tourism at University. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. 36(S1). 108–116. 3 indexed citations
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Higgins‐Desbiolles, Freya. (2005). Doing the right thing: Indigenous rights and tourism. 305. 1 indexed citations

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