Dr. Cavaliere’s Lab is housed in the Warner College of Natural Resources within the department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University.
The heart of the Tourism and Conservation lab is the pedagogical relationships and research opportunities Dr. Cavaliere provides graduate students at CSU and other international universities. For current information about graduate student’s working with Dr. Cavaliere, please visit the Graduate Students page.
Julia Branstrator recently presented her PhD experience in Dr. Cavaliere’s Tourism and Conservation Lab at the 2022 Tourism Naturally Conference. Julia details her research process and experiences working with Dr. Cavaliere in both Ketchikan, Alaska and her PhD fieldwork in Nederland, Colorado. Watch Julia present her PhD experience in the following conference recording (19 minutes 11 seconds to 31 minutes – click here). This video offers the opportunity for future and potential students to understand more about the PhD journey with Dr. Cavaliere. To learn more about the Tourism and Conservation Lab’s research in Ketchikan and Nederland, click here and scroll!
Branstrator 2022 Tourism Naturally PhD Experience In Tourism and Conservation Lab
As part of Dr. Cavaliere’s tenure track appointment at Colorado State University, she oversees and instructs the following senior capstone courses: NRRT 442 Tourism Planning and NRRT 470 Tourism Impacts.
NRRT 442 Tourism Planning examines the relationship among tourists, tourist developments and the planning of tourist attractions and services and products. It focuses on the planning of tourist resources and programs within a geographic region, as well as at a destination and site level. Planning tools and design concepts are reviewed and analyzed. A local and regional planning process in Colorado is applied through various examples and comparisons of successful planning practices. This course examines the role of sustainability in destination management and planning. Various national and international tourism and destination management organizations will be highlighted to demonstrate the evolving importance of tourism planning and management.
NRRT 470 Tourism Impacts provides a detailed examination of the economic, socio-cultural, environmental, and climate change impacts that can result from tourism. Different types of tourism are also examined, and the various impacts and outcomes that occur. Recognition is given to the fact that many tourism impacts are not easily defined and measured, being positive for some, yet negative for others. Also, what may be considered an economic impact, may also have socio-cultural (including political), environmental, and climate change effects. The course will review alternative forms of travel and tourism, and thus will contribute in demonstrating how tourism impacts the shared international goal of the world’s sustainable development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This course examines all of these complexities as they relate to tourists, tourism destinations, and host communities.
For more information, visit https://warnercnr.colostate.edu/hdnr/undergraduate-study/b-s-natural-resource-tourism/.
Dr. Cavaliere has previously advised PhD students and instructed the Doctoral Tourism Planning course at ABAC PhD Program.