“Good Tourism” news from Oceania

Here you will find news about The “Good Tour­ism” Blog’s Part­ners and friends in Aus­tralia, New Zea­l­and, Pap­ua New Guinea, and oth­er Pacific nations — espe­cially their sus­tain­able tour­ism and/or respons­ible travel activ­it­ies — plus “Good news in tour­ism” and cov­er­age of travel & tour­ism industry events in the Ocean­ia region to which “GT” is invited or oth­er­wise involved. Ad hoc sponsored news posts are also very welcome.

Before Decem­ber 2019, “GT” would sum­mar­ise under-repor­ted news stor­ies or thought-pro­vok­ing fea­ture art­icles of import­ance to the Ocean­ia region by non-industry media. The sources were well-attrib­uted and linked. Any con­tent repub­lished in full was avail­able rights-free for that pur­pose from the likes of The Con­ver­sa­tion or the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion.

Businesses think they’re on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue: Professor

February 10, 2019

Tourism accounts for approximately 8% of emissions, much of it from planes ... A Qantas Boeing 747-400 flying at approximately 11,000 metres over Starbeyevo in Moscow, May 2010. By Sergey Kustov http://www.airliners.net/photo/Qantas/Boeing-747-438/1729381/L/ (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16496086

Less energy- and car­­bon-intens­ive slow travel could be the future of tour­ism in far-flung des­tin­a­tions, accord­ing to Susanne Beck­en of Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity. The dir­ect­ors of most Aus­trali­an com­pan­ies are well aware of the impact of car­bon emis­sions, not only on the envir­on­ment but also on their own firms as emis­­sions-intens­ive indus­tries get lumbered with taxes […]

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Why we are banning tourists from climbing Uluru

November 8, 2017

climbing Uluru will be banned from 2019

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta Nation­al Park board of man­age­ment has announced that tour­ists will be banned from climb­ing Uluru from 2019. Uluru, formerly known in Eng­lish as Ayer­’s Rock, is an icon­ic sand­stone rock form­a­tion that rises dra­mat­ic­ally from the flat plains of Aus­trali­a’s red centre. Kata Tjuta (“many heads”), 25 km to the west as […]

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Is tourism a way to lift the Pacific out of poverty?

November 7, 2017

Can tourism alleviate Pacific poverty? Port Vila, Vanuatu, from the War Memorial, 2006. By Phillip Capper (CC BY 2.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APort_Vila%2C_Vanuatu%2C_from_the_War_Memorial%2C_1_June_2006_-_Flickr_-_PhillipC.jpg

There are still many oppor­tun­it­ies for Pacific Island states to take advant­age of tour­ism for devel­op­ment, accord­ing to Rat­nakar Adhi­kari and Joe Natuman writ­ing for the Thom­son Reu­ters Found­a­tion. The seafront of Port Vila, Vanuatu, bustles with activ­ity. Traders – most of them women – call out to tour­ists wan­der­ing past, implor­ing them to take […]

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World Bank to target support for PNG community-based tourism

October 15, 2017

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The World Bank’s upcom­ing US$20 mil­lion Tour­ism Sec­tor Devel­op­ment Pro­ject in Pap­ua New Guinea (PNG) will include “tar­geted sup­port for com­munity-led micro-enter­­­prises to cre­ate jobs, espe­cially for women”. The pro­ject will work with PNG gov­ern­ment and industry play­ers on an “integ­rated approach to tour­ism” in the provinces of East New Bri­tain and Mil­ne Bay and will […]

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#TravelEnjoyRespect video: “Beyond the great horizon”

October 3, 2017

#TravelEnjoyRespect video "Beyond the great horizon"

The Nation­al Academy of Arts, Cul­ture and Her­it­age (ASWARA), Malay­sia has released a video pro­mot­ing #TravelEn­joyRe­spect to help con­vey the mes­sage of how tour­ism can con­trib­ute to the 2030 Agenda for Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment and the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals (SDGs). The 3.5‑minute music video (embed­ded below) was the concept of Pacific Asia Tour­ism Man­aging Dir­ect­or Steve […]

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Australian shark tourism valuation method may be useful elsewhere

September 22, 2017

The economic value of shark tourism including white shark cage-diving in Australia

A socio-eco­­nom­ic sur­vey meth­od­o­logy that recently estim­ated the dir­ect eco­nom­ic con­tri­bu­tion of shark tour­ism in Aus­tralia may be a use­ful tool for estim­at­ing the value of wild­life tour­ism and eco­tour­ism in oth­er des­tin­a­tions. For des­tin­a­tions keen to under­stand more about the eco­nom­ic value of their own eco­tour­ism and wild­life tour­ism products, the meth­od­o­logy employed by […]

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