Daminda Sumanapala

Dr. Daminda Sumanapala is a research fellow at the School of veterinary and life sciences of the Murdoch University, Western Australia. His research has focused primarily on nature-based tourism and protected areas; behaviorism in nature tourism and protected area landscapes; motivation, attitudes, knowledge expectation, and experiences of nature based tourism and protected areas. He is particularly interested in understanding challenges of nature-based tourism practice with human engagement and how it is mitigated and conserved for the future nature based tourism industry in South and Southeast Asian. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.