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Dr Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre

Role: Senior Lecturer, Convenor of Tourism Studies Qualifications: PhD Paris Email: adhautes@waikato.ac.nz Location: IJ2.01 Contact: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 8270

Research Interests:

Impacts (environmental, economic and social and political and relational)following the creation of tourism destinations.

Issues that surround the sustainable development of tourism destinations.

French Pacific (Tahiti and its Islands, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna)tourism issues.

My research interests lie in analysing the geographic context within which tourism destinations are developed.

Certain destinations I have found fascinating because of their particular contexts: why would an American entertainment company believe that its product could succeed in a foreign environment and why would it be helped by that country's government? The project seemed to be an abysmal failure 20 months after its opening but its owners could not afford to shut it down. What was really happening? That question led to some of the articles I have published and to others that are still gestating.

Another resort, which has been financially successful, has had to deal with a public relations hassle and with protracted litigation from surrounding townships. Foxwoods Casino Resort's contextual relations are very different from those of Disneyland Paris but have been just as fascinating to study. In the case of Foxwoods (located in Connecticut), two cultural groups have diverging perspectives that have proven more difficult to reconcile than in the case of Disneyland Paris.

I was raised in French Polynesia and that is one place that most people had no difficulty locating (at least in their minds) wherever I encountered them in the world even though most had never visited and had little intention of doing so. Why would one not want to visit so famous a place? That was one of the questions I have tried to answer.

Another place I have been able to become closely acquainted with over the past 25 years is Monaco. Its independent status is one of its appeals to the millions of visitors who frequent its shops, exotic garden and historical monuments. The continued survival of their sovereignty has been very tenuous and is totally dependent on the ability of the Princes to financially support it. It has meant a continual tension between the assertion of the existence of its borders and their erasure to facilitate movement to and of all forms of resources to generate the required income in the Principality.

Selected Publications:

Requested book chapter: "Val d'Europe: a mega urban project partnered by Walt Disney Company and the French State".

2008: Review of Jean-Michel Dewailly, Tourisme et géographie, entre pérégrinité et chaos? In Tourism Geographies, 10 (4).

2008: "New Caledonian Development and the Kanak voice", American Indian Culture and Research Journal vol32(3):29-49.

2008: "Paradis extrêmes: restructuration ou perte de culture? Les Tuamotu et le tourisme", In Olivier. Dehoorne and Pascal Saffach, eds. Mondes insulaaires tropicaux: Géopolitique, économie et développement durable, pp.127-146. Paris, Ellipses.

2007: "Urbanisation Postmoderne de l’Est Francilien, Façon Disney?", in Philippe Duhamel and Rémy Knafou, eds, Mondes urbains du tourism, pp. 227-238. Paris, Belin.

2006: "Landscapes of the Tropics: tourism and the new cultural economy in the third world", in Theano Terkenli and Anne Marie d’Hauteserre, eds, Landscapes of the New Cultural Economy, pp. 149-169. Dordrecht, Springer.

2006: "Towards reworldment: conclusions" with Theano Terkenli in Theano Terkenli and Anne Marie d’Hauteserre, eds, Landscapes of the New Cultural Economy, pp. 239-245. Dordrecht, Springer.

2006: "A Response to "Tracing the commodity chain of global tourism" by Dennis Judd, Tourism Geographies, 8(4): 337-342.

2005: "Tourism, development and sustainability in Monaco: comparing discourses and practices", Tourism Geographies, vol 7 (3): 290-311.

2005: "Embracing postcolonial geographies: Contributions by Dame Evelyn Stokes to the development of postcolonial geography in New Zealand", New Zealand Geographer, vol 61 (2): 102-109.

2005: "Maintaining the Myth: Tahiti and its Islands" in Alan Lew and Carolyn Cartier, eds. Seductions of Place, pp. 193-208. New York, Routledge.

2005: "Customary practices and tourism development in the French Pacific" in Chris Cooper and Michael Hall, eds. Handbook on Oceania, pp. 308-320. New York, Channel View Publications.

2004: "Postcolonialism, colonialism and tourism" in Michael Hall, Alan Lew and Allan Williams eds., Companion to Tourism Studies, pp. 235-245. London, Blackwell.

2004: "Planification Economique et Migration en Polynésie française", Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 20 (1): 119-139.

2003: "Développement Touristique et Dynamiques Migratoires dans les Archipels Eloignés de Polynésie Française", Espace, Populations, Sociétés, 1

2003: "A response to ‘Misguided policy initiatives in small island destinations: why do up-market tourism policies fail?’", Tourism Geographies, 5 (1): 49-53.

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Dr Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre

Expertise:

Teaching Interests
Tourism, urban and economic geographies.