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Communique #23
July 2009
OSTA gets message to ADB
OSTA South Pacific Tourism & Climate Change Research Project
An AusAID International Development Research Grant has been awarded for a three
year Pacific Tourism–Climate Adaptation Project (PT - CAP). Initiated via OSTA, it will be led by Victoria University Centre for Tourism and Services Research (CTSR) in collaboration with the University of New South Wales’ Natural Hazards Research
Laboratory and the University of the South Pacific’s Tourism School, together with industry/NGO partners, Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International (FSPI), South-Pacific.Travel (SPTO), and Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd.
The project aims to develop climate change adaptation policies and strategies to assist
the Pacific Island tourism sector protect and grow local livelihoods.
www.pacificasiatourism.org
International development via sustainable tourism
Lelei Tuisamoa LeLaulu at left with
Sultan Hafeez Rahman, Director
General of the Pacific Department of
the Asian Development Bank and, at
right, Sir Terepai Maoate, Deputy Prime
Minister of the Cook Islands.
http://samoanewsonline.com/viewstory.php?
storyid=7685&edition=1247479200
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been urged to
focus more on the impact of climate change on tourism,
communities and environment in the vulnerable Pacific
region, which contributes the least to climate changing
emissions but suffers the most from its excesses.
The comments were made by Lelei LeLaulu, a member of
the Expert Panel reviewing the Bank’s new strategy for
2010 to 2020 is also a Founding Partner with Pacific Asia
Tourism Pty Ltd of the Oceania Sustainable Tourism
Alliance (OSTA) www.oceaniatourismalliance.net
A sector requiring the Bank’s close focus was tourism,
“the major economic driver” for the Pacific region, which
he asserted, needed to be “climate-proofed”. “UK, US,
Australian and New Zealand tourists take and leave more
cash in the islands of the South Pacific than their
governments give in official development assistance —
so it is important for us to ensure Pacific communities
benefit from these resources,”
Research Questions
Within Pacific Island economies:
1. What is the character of the tourism sector including its backward and forward
linkages into the wider Island economies and global markets and how has it shown
resilience to previous shocks?
2. How might climate change impact upon the tourism sector and local livelihoods?
3. What is the existing policy environment (tourism, climate change, environmental and
disaster management) and how might a policy sciences analysis assist in addressing
the challenge of climate change?
4. What vulnerability/resilience frameworks exist in sustainability science and what are
the most appropriate frameworks for use by the local tourism industry to adapt to
climate change?
Project Method and Research Activities
Step 1: Policy analysis in 10 Pacific Island countries (tentatively including policies in Fiji
Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga,
Tuvalu, and Vanuatu)
Step 2: Develop a vulnerability/resilience framework suitable for the tourism sector
Step 3: Detailed case studies in 3 destinations (tentatively in Samoa, Vanuatu, and Fiji
Western Island Group) commencing with understanding the destinations existing
resilience to change, risk and disasters
Step 4: Apply and modify the vulnerability/resilience framework to the case study
destinations and propose a suite of possible adaptation strategies
Step 5: Policy implications for Pacific Island Countries
For more details, contact Dr. Min Jiang, min.jiang@vu.edu.au
Huene Island , Carteret Atoll, Papua New Guinea, has been bisected by the sea. Photo by Jennifer Redfearn
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/world/29refugees.html, March 28, 2009
Vanuatu
www.marineprotectedarea.com.vu
Thailand – South Andaman
Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd continues to support the South Andaman Sustainable
Tourism Network. Latest newsletters can be downloaded from: http://www.sacstn.org/pdf/Newsletter_Vol2Issue9_Jul09.pdf and http://www.sacstn.org/pdf/Newsletter_Vol2Issue8_Jun09.pdf
A group of 24 Thai resource managers and researchers will visit Queensland in August as part of the scientific process to work towards World Heritage Listing along the Andaman
Coast of Thailand.
Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd has joined the list of Partners contributing to communities on the Nguna and Pele islands, located off the North coast of Vanuatu's principal island of Efate in the South Pacific Ocean. In our case, the assistance will relate to sustainable tourism, networking and climate change research and issues. The Nguna-Pele MPA is a local,
indigenous, non-governmental organization made up of sixteen communities on the two islands dedicated to the sustainable use and long-term existence of marine and terrestrial resources. It is the very first of its kind in Vanuatu and currently serves as a model for other island. James Cook University PhD candidate, Chris Barlett has been working and
researching in the region for some 7 years and makes a considerable contribution to topics noted on the website below.
Indonesia & Scotland
In July 2009 Dr Alan Wilson, the Chairman of the Board of Ecolodges Indonesia was
honoured at the University of Edinburgh in July with an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor
honoris causa - 'for the sake of the honour'). Dr Wilson is also Chairman, Indonesia
International Rural and Agricultural Development Foundation. The Award recognises his
lifetime of service to wildlife conservation in Africa and Indonesia where for the past 40
years he has been dedicated to poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation. Alan
graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery (Edinburgh) 1963, Dip Biol
(Edinburgh) 1964 and a PhD (Edinburgh) 1968.
Ecolodges Indonesia currently operates four Ecolodges in Sumatra, Kaliamantan, Bali
and Flores, with plans well underway to open three more in environmentally sensitive
regions of the country.
Board Chairman, Dr Alan
Wilson (at bottom right) and
Board members Dedi Mullia and
Steve Noakes along with joint
company founder, Meryl
Wilson, attended a ceremony to
allocate new shares to
Indonesia staff at the AGM
2009 staff.. Ecolodges
Indonesia has a strong
conservation and community
benefit philosophy.
More information on Ecolodges
Indonesia is available from
www.ecolodgesindonesia.com
Edinburgh University was established by a
Royal Charter granted by James VI in 1582.
From the jungles of Kalimantan, Indonesia to the
hallowed stones of Edinburgh
Tonga
www.south-pacific.travel/spto/export/sites/spto/destinations/tonga
Photo credit: www.tongaholiday.com/index.php?page_id=10
National Geographic’s ‘Geotourism Challenge’
Three wonderful operations in Asia Pacific have made it to the final ten list of National Geographic’s global ‘Geotourism Challenge’. They are each inspirational and deserving of a quick look – especially the YouTube links on websites below.
Cambodia: http://geotourism.changemakers.com/node/21931 PEPY: Educational Volunteer Tourism changing attitudes in Cambodia
Mongolia: http://geotourism.changemakers.com/en-us/node/23485
Mongolia’s Ger to Ger Foundation – Nomad Centered, Community-Based, Cultural Eco
Tourism Development
India: http://geotourism.changemakers.com/en-us/node/19044
Bamboo Eco-Lodge River Trips on the Siang River
http://mdgasiapacific.org
Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd Australian partner
organisation for the AusAID funded AYAD – Australian
Youth Ambassadors for development
(www.ayad.com.au) program.
In addition to being APO for AYAD placement, Dr
Glenn Hornby, currently in Kiribati, we are now APO
for Sibylla MacDonald for a Media and
Communications Officer assignment with the Tonga
Visitor Bureau www.tongaholiday.com
Vietnam Kindergarten Fundraising project
If you’re in Sydney, Friday 14th August 2009 come to NSW Parliamentary Dining Room, Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney 7.00PM, Dress: Lounge suit. Cost: A$100.00 per person or $900.00 for table of 10 Guests of Honour: Long Tan Battle Veteran & Author Dave Sabben, MG, Patricia Amphlett OAM (Little Pattie) and Col Joye A.M.
The AVVRG as a 100% voluntary organisation registered and licensed in Vietnam. For more information email : kerry.phelan@gmail.com
France: Centre International de Recherches et d'Etudes Touristiques
Our collaboration with René BARETJE-KELLER at CIRET enables the Pacific Asia Tourism
Pty. Ltd. communities to access a valuable tool for global scientific and professional networking and cooperation. CIRET consolidates information to 746 research centers
currently identified in 106 countries and to the 4,357 individual researchers currently identified in 118 countries, specialized in tourism and travel. CIRET makes available to Researchers and our Future Leaders the contents analysis through a thesaurus of 1,450
key-words and a geographical index concerning world-wide tourism and travel research through access (up to date) to 151,628 articles, documents, books that CIRET has read systematically created with the indication of authors(s) title and publisher. CIRET also provides a data on publishers specialized in tourism and leisure and provides a
publication center open to all researchers, in order to make their production available to the global research community.
http://www.ciret-tourism.com ciret@free.fr
USA: Centre for Global development
www.cgdev.org
Funds raised at the Salute to Vietnam
Veterans Charity Dinner will go to the
AUSTRALIAN VETERANS’ VIETNAM RECONSTRUCTION GROUP INC. (AVVRG) and assist in the completion of the Nui Dat
“Kindy”. The contribution to this project by
the Australian public is significant in that
the village of Nui Dat is now considered by
a whole generation of babyboomers and
their families to be, the “Spiritual Home”
for the 59,000 odd servicemen and women
who served in Vietnam during the ten year
conflict of the 60’s and 70’s.
CGD is an independent think tank that works to reduce global
poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the
U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and
active engagement with the policy community. CGD Society
members such as Steve Noakes share a commitment to a
better future for people in the developing world. They are
dedicated to global policy changes that will bring more
opportunities to poor people to improve their lives
Resources:
Global Poverty Project
www.globalpovertyproject.com
World Statistics
www.worldometers.info
WWF and Climate Change
1.4 billion reasons is not after your money. Your everyday actions – in what you learn, say, buy, give and do – can be connected to the ending of extreme poverty. Small actions in your life can create big
opportunities for the world’s poorest. 1.4 billion reasons links audience members with leading organisations so that each and every one of us can take action to end extreme poverty.
The world’s financial and climate crises have
a common cause: living beyond our means.
The world is running up huge ecological debts,
just as it has run up huge financial debts. Neither
is sustainable. WWF claims our leaders cannot
successfully put capitalism back together again
without at the same time fixing the greatest
single consequence of unsustainability – climate
change.
WWF has produced a ‘pocket guide’ to support
the six key tasks they want the forthcoming
Copenhagen Protocol negotiators to consider.
Download the Guide at http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_climate_deal_1.pdf
OR
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/climate_carbon_energy/climate_deal/publications/new_cli
mate_deal/
Has real time data on things like: Current world
population, Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions this year,
in tons, Species that have gone extinct this year,
Energy used worldwide today (kWh), Google
searches today, Computers sold this year and a lot
more. Cool info source.
Marrakekech Task Force – Sustainable Tourism (UNEP)
The Sustainable Tourism Task Force has launched a set of policy recommendations to reinforce sustainability parameters in tourism planning and management. The objective
is to guide tourism stakeholders on the identification of opportunities and their strategies of implementation to improve the economic resilience of the sector, guarantee long-term sustainability of tourism development and engage the tourism industry with key universal concerns such as poverty alleviation and climate change.
www.unep.fr/scp/marrakech/taskforces/tourism.htm
Another great ad out of NZ
Air New Zealand staff have nothing to hide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elD38pJX7iE
Behind the scenes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnhVcD74i14
New York Times coverage http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/business/30air.html?emc=eta1
Sustainable Tourism Destination Portal
DestiNet is tourist destination information service that supports networking of various sustainable tourism stakeholders. It is jointly administrated by the European
Environment Agency (EEA), ECOTRANS a European network of experts and organisations in the tourism sector, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Tourism Organization (UN WTO).
http://destinet.ew.eea.europa.eu/background Aussies and Shares
Approximately 41% of adult Australians own shares, according to the 2008 Australian Share
Ownership Study (PDF 1.44MB), released by ASX on 23 June 2009. The Study offers insights into
the attitudes, knowledge and behaviour of retail share market investors in Australia in late 2008, a
time of significant market volatility
http://www.asx.com.au/about/pdf/2008_australian_share_ownership_study.pdf
The Marrakech Process is a global
multi-stakeholder process to
support the implementation of
Sustainable Consumption and
Production (SCP) and to develop a
Global Framework for Action on
SCP. The Process responds to the call
of the Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation (World Summit on
Sustainable Development 2002) to
support the regional and national
initiatives to accelerate the shift
towards SCP patterns
Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is a member of
south-pacific.travel (formerly the South Pacific Tourism Organisation or SPTO) is the
mandated inter-governmental body for the tourism sector in the region, with the mission to
"Market and Develop Tourism in the South Pacific".
south-pacific.travel members include the Pacific Island nations of the Cook Islands (Cooks), Fiji,
Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti (French
Polynesia), Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea (PNG). The People's Republic of China
is also a country member of south-pacific.travel.
Asia Pacific Customer Service Training for Tourism
http://www.oceaniatourismalliance.net/Documents/Training%20&%20Education%20Suzanne%20Noake
s%2009%20Nov%2008.pdf
Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd supporting:
www.TourismROI.com
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