Professor Bruce Prideaux PhD
Director
Centre for Tourism and Regional Opportunities at the Cairns campus of Central Queensland University
Specialisations:
- Protected area tourism
- Rural tourism
- Remote area tourism
- Indigenous tourism
- Urban tourism
- River and canal tourism
- Climate change.
Other active areas of research include military heritage, tourism transport, ecotourism. Professor Prideaux holds a Visiting Professorship at Taylors University Malaysia and has authored over 300 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers on a range tourism related issues. He has authored or co-authored 10 books, the most recent of which look at climate change issues and global rainforest tourism.
Current projects include a book looking aspects of coral reef and how tourism can be used in rural development.