Dear colleagues, A reminder about the upcoming workshop “Marine Mammal Tourism” at the SMM conference in Dunedin, New Zealand. This full day workshop will be held on Saturday 7th December 2013. A complete description is available on the conference workshop website ( http://www.marinemammalscience.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=591&Itemid=336&workshop=38<https://owa.massey.ac.nz/owa/redir.aspx?C=fet8NidBy0yyAJKEXBv7WCDtDNJmrdAIHWN2A8BZJktRxoBHk8OFaPQKdi5nN_upe6YCEZXju2o.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.marinemammalscience.org%2findex.php%3foption%3dcom_content%26view%3darticle%26id%3d591%26Itemid%3d336%26workshop%3d38> ). Marine mammal tourism has experienced rapid and widespread international growth over the past three decades with an estimated 13 million tourists in 2008 generating around US$ 2.1 billion in total revenue. As a sub-component of this wider non-captive marine mammal tourism industry is dolphin- based tourism (including watching and swimming-with-dolphins). A wide range of research into the effects of tourism on marine mammals has identified that such activities are not benign and recent research has linked its cumulative and potentially synergetic short-term effects with long-term biological consequences for the viability and fitness of targeted populations. Considering it is a human use of a marine mammal resource, the International Whaling Commission has considered marine mammal tourism activities and set up a Whale Watching Sub-Committee in 1998. The workshop will consist of talks and discussion forum in order to review the scientific basis for management of marine mammal tourism, discuss actions for management agencies and examine their efficiency, and consider future management development and implementation frameworks. To register, please go directly to http://www.marinemammalscience.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=358&Itemid=65&workshop=38<https://owa.massey.ac.nz/owa/redir.aspx?C=fet8NidBy0yyAJKEXBv7WCDtDNJmrdAIHWN2A8BZJktRxoBHk8OFaPQKdi5nN_upe6YCEZXju2o.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.marinemammalscience.org%2findex.php%3foption%3dcom_content%26view%3darticle%26id%3d358%26Itemid%3d65%26workshop%3d38> Any parties interested in contributing to the workshop via a 30min presentation should contact Anna Meissner on a.m.meissner@massey.ac.nz<https://owa.massey.ac.nz/owa/redir.aspx?C=fet8NidBy0yyAJKEXBv7WCDtDNJmrdAIHWN2A8BZJktRxoBHk8OFaPQKdi5nN_upe6YCEZXju2o.&URL=mailto%3aa.m.meissner%40massey.ac.nz>with a proposed title in the first instance. On behalf of the organizing committee members Anna Meissner (Massey University), Karen Stockin (Massey University), Emmanuelle Martinez (Pacific Whale Foundation) & Mark Orams (AUT University)