Stephen Pratt

Prof Stephen Pratt

Prof Steph­en Pratt

Steph­en Pratt is a pro­fess­or and deputy head of the School of Busi­ness & Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­sity of the South Pacific, Fiji. He is also a vis­it­ing pro­fess­or at the Cen­ter for Tour­ism Research, Wakayama Uni­ver­sity, Japan.

Prof Prat­t’s research interests include sus­tain­able tour­ism devel­op­ment — par­tic­u­larly tour­is­m’s eco­nom­ic, sociocul­tur­al, and envir­on­ment­al impacts in small island states — and film tourism.

Steph­en is also a co-cre­at­or of The Travel Pro­fess­ors, a You­Tube chan­nel, where he’s known by the nick­name ‘Stevo’.

Atrocity, curiosity, tragedy, travel: Battlefield tourism in the Solomon Islands

September 28, 2021

Kinugawa Maru, Japanese supply vessel wrecked at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Top image by Gilly Tanbose (CC0) via Unsplash. Bottom image by author.

Dark peri­ods of his­tory evoke strong emo­tions, par­tic­u­larly among those with close con­nec­tions to par­ti­cipants. As doc­u­mented by Steph­en Pratt and his col­leagues, cruise tour­ists who chose to join a shore tour of World War II bat­tle­field sites, museums, and memori­als on Guadal­canal did so for a vari­ety of reas­ons and felt a range of […]

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