Kate Rodger
Lecturer
Environmental and Conservation Sciences
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
Kate Rodger is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in Environmental Science at Murdoch University. With a background in tourism and environmental science her research has allowed her to collaborate closely with the tourism industry, and especially park agencies, and have produced technical reports on management planning, improving the sustainability of wildlife tourism, and using visitor data more effectively.
Research Interest
Her research areas include: human-wildlife interactions visitor impacts in natural environment linking science and policy integrating ecological and social science in nature tourism research
Publications
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Moore, S.A., Rodger, K. & Taplin, R. (2013) Moving beyond visitor satisfaction to loyalty in natureâ€based tourism: a review and research agenda. Current Issues in Tourism.
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Rodger, K., Taplin, R. & Moore, S.A. (2015) Using a randomised experiment to test the causal effect of service quality on visitor satisfaction and loyalty in a remote national park. Tourism Management.
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Taplin, R., Rodger, K. and Moore, S.A. (In Review) A Method for Testing the Effect of Management Intervention on the Satisfaction and Loyalty of National Park Visitors. Leisure Sciences.
