Jess Ponting
San Diego State University
21 Papers
72 Citations
Jess Ponting is an academic researcher from San Diego State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tourism & Ecotourism. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 21 publications.
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Papers
Performance, agency and change in surfing tourist space
Jess Ponting,Matthew McDonald +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a social constructionist approach to grounded theory was employed to investigate surfing tourist space in Indonesia's Mentawai Islands and found that the construction and maintenance of a utopian surfing tourist tourist space based on myth and dubbed "Nirvana" was a four-stage process that has simultaneously enchanted surfers and ignored indigenous experiences.
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Sustainable Surf Tourism: A Community Centered Approach in Papua New Guinea
Danny O’Brien,Jess Ponting +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a strategic approach to managing surf tourism in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is presented. But, the authors focus on how surf tourism can be managed to achieve sustainable host community benefits in the context of a developing country.
Regulating "Nirvana": Sustainable surf tourism in a climate of increasing regulation
Jess Ponting,Danny O’Brien +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used qualitative interviews and participant observation to explore the politics of surf tourism recreational capacity management in the Mentawais, and the wider implications for Mentawaian host communities' involvement in the surf tourism economy.
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Establishing a pre-COVID-19 baseline for surf tourism: Trip expenditure and attitudes, behaviors and willingness to pay for sustainability
Leon Mach,Jess Ponting +1 more
- 01 May 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided the only empirically derived pre-COVID-19 global estimation of international surf travel spending and the first assessment of sustainable surf tourism attitudes, behaviors, and willingness to pay.
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Consumer spaces as political spaces: A critical review of social, environmental and psychogeographical research
TL;DR: In this article, a review of social and environmental psychology literature on spaces and places with a focus on consumer culture and neoliberalism is presented, arguing that an alternative approach to knowledge production is required.