The 2018 updates

OMG, I have apparently missed the whole 2018 for any updates!

This book has my chapter!

I’m still alive (and healthy, thank you, Universe!) and still working with sustainable tourism, tourism economics and marine mammal issues in general. I was teaching for the second semester at James Cook University, thus it kept me busy during the last half of the year, while the first half of the 2018 was busy with me getting married to my partner in mid-April (we started dating in mid 2010).

I’ve also been collaborating on some papers. Three of them are under review now; one on old stranding paintings with Rodney Westerlaken, the other one on the habitat suitability of marine megafauna in Solor Islands with Muhammad Iqbal Herwata Putra, and the last one is on cetacean bycatch in Gorontalo Sulawesi with Elena Wonneberger, Karim Erzini and Nuralim Pasisingi. Five papers are being cooked as we speak: the first one is on the economics of shark tourism in Indonesia (with Hollie Booth and Muh Ichsan), the second one is on the habitat suitability of cetaceans in Solor Islands with Iqbal Herwata Putra, the third one is on the habitat suitability of cetaceans in Indonesia (with Achmad Sahri and Iqbal Herwata Putra), the fourth one is on the governance of marine mammals in Indonesia (with Achmad Sahri) and the fifth one is on the souvenir sellers in Lovina (with Riccardo Welters, Neil Loneragan and Carol Warren). There’s a batch of data on environmental education that I want to analyse, but I really have to set time for that to make it happen (!).

Meanwhile, I got two publications from last year: a book chapter (first author) and a peer-reviewed paper (co-author for Coralie D’Lima). The citations are below. You can buy the book (Coral Reefs: Tourism, Conservation and Management) from Amazon!

• D’Lima, C., Everingham, Y., Diedrich, A., Mustika, P. L., Hamann, M. and Marsh, H. (2018) 'Using multiple indicators to evaluate the sustainability of dolphin-based wildlife tourism in rural India', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1-21

• Mustika, P. L. K., Welters, R. and Setiasih, N. (2018) 'Tourist satisfaction and expenditures in a reef-adjoining dolphin watching industry in Lovina, Bali Indonesia' in Pabel, A. and Prideaux, B., eds., Coral Reefs: Tourism, Conservation and Management, New York: Routledge, 184-197.

On that note, I hope 2019 is a very productive, peaceful and healthy year for us all!