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Mr.
Michael Grosvenor
Director - Michael Gorsvenor Consulting
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Sustainability
and Climate Change
Day
2, 09:30-10:00 |
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Biography
Michael Grosvenor is a freelance writer
on sustainability issues and a leading urban
planning professional. His is the author of
Sustainable Living For Dummies in 2007 and Sustainable
Australian Travel For Dummies in early 2009.
Michael's recently released book about sustainable
travel and holidays enabled Michael to combine
his passion for sustainability with his love
of travel. Through his work and writing, Michael
promotes the benefits of making sustainable
lifestyle choices. Michael has a particular
expertise in advising the private sector and
government on policies that promote increased
public transport, walking and cycling. Michael
is a keen advocate of the important role that
public transport, walking and cycling plays
in our cities and towns, and the important role
they can play in having a wonderfully sustainable
holiday.
Sustainable
Australian Travel For Dummies: The Sustainable
Traveller’s Perspective
My book Sustainable Australian Travel For Dummies
was released early this year (2009). It shows
travellers and holiday makers how to have a
sustainable holiday in Australia - from the
transport you can take to get there and around,
the accommodation you can choose, the attractions
you can see and ethical local businesses you
can support. After describing what sustainable
travellers like myself look for when researching
where and how they might have a sustainable
holiday, the presentation will focus on describing
how tourism operators and businesses can best
facilitate those tourists wanting to be sustainable
on their holidays - from better managing their
businesses through to facilitating customer
behaviour - and how to best promote their businesses
as sustainable to their potential customers.
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Ms.
Helen Gwilliam
Principal Policy Officer
Department of Sustainability and Environment |
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Biography
Helen
Gwilliam is a Principal Policy Officer in
the Department of Sustainability and Environment,
Victoria. The department leads policy and
strategy for management of the public land
estate, including for the sustainable use
of public lands for tourism and recreation.
Sean Daugherty is Manager, Nature-based Tourism,
at Tourism Victoria, responsible for implementing
Victoria's Nature-based Tourism Strategy 2008-2012.
Sean has a passion for tourism and has worked
in the industry for over 12 years, in adventure
tourism in Tasmania, Fiji, Mexico, Canada
and the United States, and conducting tourism
and small business research at Victoria University
and the University of Tasmania. Victoria’s
Nature-based Tourism Strategy 2008-2012 was
jointly funded and guided by Tourism Victoria,
Parks Victoria and the Department of Sustainability
and Environment. The Strategy recognises that
public lands attract significant visitor numbers,
and that development of appropriate and sustainable
accommodation facilities will support a more
viable and environmentally sustainable industry.
Design
Guidelines for Nature-based Tourism Accommodation
The
development of Design Guidelines for Nature-based
Tourism Accommodation and associated Leisure
and Recreation Facilities on Public and Private
Land is a key project under the Victorian
Government’s Nature-based Tourism Strategy
2008-2012. The Strategy aims to grow nature-based
tourism in Victoria, by coordinating policy,
planning, sustainable development and marketing
of the sector. The presentation will outline
the scope, development and application of
the design guidelines for nature-based tourism,
which are intended to:
promote the development of high quality, environmentally
sustainable accommodation;
improve the design standard of developments;
assist investors and land managers in understanding
the preferred form and design of accommodation,
particularly on environmentally and culturally
sensitive sites;
create an environment where accommodation
proposals have an increased level of acceptance
from communities;
assist planners, design assessment advisors,
public land managers and decision-makers at
local and State level in assessing accommodation
proposals.
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Ms.
Carole Hammond
Exhibition Manager - Immigration Museum, Melbourne
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Sustainability
and Climate Change
Day
2, 16:00-16:30 |
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Biography
Carole Hammond is the Exhibition
Manager at the Immigration Museum, Museum
Victoria in Melbourne. Throughout her career
she has coordinated the development and delivery
of numerous and highly diverse permanent,
temporary and touring exhibitions which cross
the arts, natural history and humanities.
She is currently completing her MA in Museum
Studies for which her focus is the environmentally
sustainable development and delivery of exhibitions
across the arts and cultural sector, and the
wider application of this throughout the various
Australian creative industries. Carole holds
a B. Photography and a GDip in Management
(Arts). She has participated on a number of
national committee’s such as the Network
of Australasian Museum Exhibitors (NAME) and
the Australia and New Zealand Exhibition Managers
Committee.
Sustainable
Practise within the Creative Industries
Environmentally sustainable practises
within the creative industry sector is fast
becoming a priority to an ever-increasing
number of organisations. Carole’s presentation
will outline the challenges and benefits of
managing key organisational outcomes within
a context that involves the display of precious
and rare cultural objects, whilst embracing
environmental sustainability as a key contributing
factor. In particular she will outline research
and development conducted around a significant
project undertaken at the Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery (TMAG) in 2008/09 involving
the holistic development and delivery of a
sustainable touring exhibition. In addition
she will talk to work being undertaken at
Museum Victoria to implement sustainable practise
across projects and the ongoing development
of a number of resources which will enable
museums, art galleries, theatres, festivals
and other venues connected to the leisure
industry, to environmentally refine their
core product.
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Kim
Harrington
Business Development & Policy Manager
Queensland Tourism Industry Council
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Indigenous
Tourism Development
Day
2, 15:30-16:00 |
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Kim
has a background in business development, economic
development, skills development and strategic
partnerships.
Kim
has worked in various operational roles within
government, private sector and her own business
in the UK and Australia. She has worked with
the education, engineering, retail, finance
and more for the past five years, tourism industry.
Kim
holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Certificate
in Counselling, Diploma in Tourism, Diploma
in Event Management and Training and Assessment
to complement her diverse industry background.
Kim’s
role at QTIC is state wide where she has operational
responsibility for QTIC led Queensland Tourism
Strategy Actions, state wide committees and
liaison with Regional Tourism Organisation and
directly with industry members.
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Ms.
Stephanie Hawkins
Manager - Environmental and Cultural Tourism
Development, Tourism NT |
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Indigenous
Tourism Development
Day
2, 11:00-11:30 |
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Biography
Stephanie
Hawkins is the Manager of Environmental and
Cultural Tourism Development at Tourism NT.
Stephanie heads a team of seven specialist
industry development officers focusing on
Indigenous, environmental and sustainable
tourism across the NT. Prior to starting with
Tourism NT Stephanie worked in the Indigenous
arts and community development arena for 15
years. She has tertiary qualifications in
Art History and Curatorship and Cultural Heritage
Management specialising in Aboriginal prehistory.
An
Innovative Approach to Developing Indigenous
Tourism in the Northern Territory
Through a colloborative approach with a number
of partners lead by Tourism NT. A number of
innovative programs have been developed and
implemented to support the sustainable business
growth of Indigenous Tourism operators across
the Northern Territory.
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Mr
James Hewitt
Director, Infrastructure and Investment
- Tourism Western Australia |
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Tourism
and Protection Through Partnerships
Day
2, 11:00-11:30 |
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Biography
James Hewitt is Director, Infrastructure and
Investment at Tourism Western Australia. A qualified
town planner, James oversees Tourism WA’s
investment attraction, planning, infrastructure
and development operations. James has extensive
experience in a range of development projects,
strategic planning and tourism initiatives having
worked in private industry, local and state
government in the UK and Australia. James has
been running Tourism WA’s Naturebank initiative
from its early days.
Naturebank
– Eco Development in Protected Areas
The most iconic unique selling point for tourism
in Western Australia is the State’s natural
attractions and eco tourism opportunities. However
its potential is far from realised because of
issues relating to entry of private investment
in protected areas. Tourism Western Australia
and the WA Department of Conservation and Environment's
(DEC) “Naturebank” project attempts
to address these issues and has embarked on
a staged release of eco tourism accommodation
development opportunities in Western Australia's
most iconic protected areas. The programmed
release of sites is the result of extensive
site investigations, consultation and engagement
with Traditional Owners, assessment of environmental
impacts and values, and consideration of visitor
expectations. Sites are carefully selected to
offer more than just accommodation. They will
integrate with their setting, provide employment
and opportunities for capacity building in the
tourism industry for Aboriginal communities,
improve public access to National Parks and
advocate the conservation message to visitors.
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Tourism
in Protected Areas
Day
2, 16:00-16:30
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Mr
Colin Ingram
Managing Director - Resolve Global
Pty Ltd |
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Tourism
in Protected Areas
Day
2, 13:30-14:00 |
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Biography
Colin is Managing Director of Resolve
Global Pty Ltd with over 30 years experience
in protected area management, and nature-based
tourism management.
Colin has previously held senior leadership
positions in the Western Australian Department
of Environment and Conservation (DEC). He pioneered
the development of groundbreaking programs in
protected area tourism including the establishment
of park volunteers and community involvement
programs, the development of public private
partnerships in parks and was responsible for
developing innovative licensing and management
systems for commercial operations in the WA
protected areas.
Colin has sat on numerous state and national
committees relating to recreation and tourism
management and development including the WA
Coastal Planning and Coordination Council, the
National Tourism Accreditation Taskforce; the
ANZECC Working Group on National Parks and Protected
Areas; and the national steering committee for
the Sustainable Tourism CRC’s, (STCRC)
Sustainable Resources Program.
He is currently preparing a Visitor Services
Plan for national parks of the Kimberley Region
in Western Australia for the Department of
Environment and Conservation.
The Kimberley: Australia’s
Last Great Wilderness
The Kimberley region is graced with
exceptional endemic nature product, based on
its high biodiversity, an ancient and complex
geology of world significance, breathtaking
coastal, marine and terrestrial landscapes and
the oldest living indigenous culture on the
planet. Considered to be the last great sub-tropical
wilderness on the planet, it has an array the
Kimberley supports a thriving and evolving ecotourism
industry and is one of the fastest growing tourism
regions in WA. The national parks and reserves
of the Kimberly are the cornerstone of the nature
and eco-tourism industry.
Visitation to the region is
increasing and demographic of the region are
changing with Broome now developing as an important
industrial hub for the oils and gas industry.
The Kimberley population is expected to double
by 2031.
The Department of Environment
and Conservation (DEC) has engaged Resolve Global
Pty Ltd to prepare a Visitor Service Plan (KVSP)
(a recreation and tourism strategy) for the
parks and reserves it manages in the Kimberley.
The KVSP faces a number of challenges to maintain
the visitor experience including sustaining
the natural and cultural values of parks, managing
increasing air, sea and road access to national
parks, providing a safe environment in some
of the most remote locations in the country,
and all with limited resources.
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Ecotourism
Austrlaia’s annual conference. Global ecotourism
conference. International ecotourism conference.
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