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Communique #49 Summer (downunder) 2013/2014

International Conference on Spiritual Tourism for Sustainable Development.

Inaugural UNWTO Spiritual Tourism and Sustainable Development Conference hosted with the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism in Ninh Binh, Vietnam from 21 - 22 November 2013. http://ethics.unwto.org/en/event/international-conference-spiritual-tourism-sustainable-development

Editorial on the conference by Imtiaz Muqbil, Executive Editor, Travel Impact Newswire, www.travel-impact-newswire.com - go to http://www.travel-impact-newswire.com/2013/11/first-unwto-conference-in-ninh-binh-helps-spiritual-tourism-come-of-age-in-asia/#axzz2nzluO14M Photo: Former Indonesian Minister for Culture & Tourism I Gede Ardkia, Steve Noakes & senior officials from Ministry of Tourism & Creative Economy, Indonesia at Trang An, northern Vietnam.

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Can eco-tourism save Borneo’s endangered orangutans?

Indonesia: Ecolodges performing well. www.ecolodgesindonesia.com

New YouTube introductions to the lodges: Kelimutu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7nZnMlG6J8

Udayana Ecolodge, Bali: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y_L81I19AE

Bajo Komodo Ecolodge, Flores: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PPiH3LLpU

European Master in Tourism, Culture and International Management (EMACIM)

http://www.ulapland.fi/InEnglish/Admissions/Apply-Now/For-Masters-Studies

PAT founder, Steve Noakes, is a Visiting Professor at the University of Lapland, Finland. The University does not charge tuition fees from degree students. Higher education in Finland is supported by the Finnish government, which means that both Finnish and international students can benefit from one of the world's best education systems, free of charge.

 

Nice inclusion of Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge in this article: http://fridaymagazine.ae/travel/can-eco-tourism-save-borneo-s-endangered-orangutans-1.1249501

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Small ship expeditions, Papua New Guinea

Images from most recent 2013 expedition with Suzanne Noakes. 2014: http://www.expeditions.com/destinations/pacific-islands-australia/exploring-papua-new-guinea/  

Photo credits to Christina L. Bourne, USA.

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Papua New Guinea Expedition Voyage, Feb. 1 – 15, 2014

http://www.seadream.com/blog/papua-new-guinea-indonesia-expedition-voyage-february-1-15-2014

Slides – 25+ years of PNG travels.

For more than a quarter century, Suzanne has been promoting & leading travel throughout Melanesia,

particularly Papua New Guinea.

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http://www.slideshare.net/SteveNoakes/25-years-promoting-tourism-to-png

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Resources:

Good materials out of British Columbia, Canada. Adventure Tourism Certificate Program

BC Provincial Aboriginal Tourism Education and Training

Handbook for Community Tourism Champions nkbc.ca/siteFiles/85/files/TCTT.pdf From the Europeans:

Free textbooks In October 2012, the government of British Columbia announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 highest-impact first-and second-year courses in the province’s public post-secondary system. BCcampus was tasked with co-ordinating the project because of our 10-year experience with the Online Program Development Fund. The texts will be available for free online, or at low-cost for printed versions, to approximately 200,000 students. http://open.bccampus.ca/open-textbook-101/ Each of the books listed in this link is freely available for download, online reading, and sharing, under one of various open licenses. http://www.saylor.org/books/ eScholarship provides Open-Access scholarly publishing services tothe University of California and delivers a dynamic research platformto scholars worldwide http://www.escholarship.org/ Taylor & Francis and Routledge currently publish a number of pure open access journals, with no subscription content. The articles in these journals receive both rigorous peer review and expedited online publication. Authors have the option of publishing their open access article under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, as mandated by some research funders. http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/openjournals Natural & Cultural World Heritage sites Managing Natural World Heritage http://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/703/

Managing Cultural World Heritage http://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/827/

The curriculum in this handbook is based on learning outcomes that have been supported by key Western Canadian adventure tourism organizations http://linkbc.ca/siteFiles/85/files/BCAdvenTourCoreCurriculum.pdf

 

http://linkbc.ca/siteFiles/85/files/BCAboriginalCurriculumGuide.pdf

 

http:// www.ecotourism-network.eu/  

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Pacific & Climate Change – new ADB report

http://www.adb.org/news/major-report-details-potential-costs-climate-change-pacific-adb?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts Pacific Economic Monitor A tri-annual review of economic developments in ADB’s 14 developing member countries in the Pacific.

Greener business tools

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

ESCAP is the regional development arm of the United Nations and serves as the main economic and

socialdevelopment centre for the United Nations in Asia and the Pacific. Its mandate is to

fostercooperation between its 53 members and 9 associate members. ESCAP provides the

strategiclink between global and country-level programmes and issues. The ESCAP office isocated in

Bangkok, Thailand. www.unescap.org

Part of a collection of greener business tools available from the Travel Foundation to help tourism businesses take effective action on sustainable tourism. http://www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk/images/media/TravelFoundation_manual_FINAL.pdf

 

http://www.adb.org/news/rising-fiscal-challenges-pacific-2014-adb?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts

 

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Useful Asia Pacific data

ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) AEC - goal of regional economic integration by 2015. AEC envisages the following key characteristics: (a) a single market and production base, (b) a highly competitive economic region, (c) a region of equitable economic development, and (d) a region fully integrated into the global economy. ASEAN Tourism: http://www.asean.org/communities/asean-economic-community/category/overview-19

Beyond philanthropy: What happens when a multinational creates its own development agency?  Chevron’s work in Nigeria provides a compelling model of a multinational applying itself to community-based development.  https://www.devex.com/en/news/beyond-philanthropy-what-happens-when-a/82220?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvavPdO%2FhmjTEU5z16ewoUK%2B%2BgIkz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMRcRiMK%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7bNKc1r2NkQXBfn

‘WE CAME ON A HOLIDAY LIKE YOU’ THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PRESS IN LONDON IN THE 1970s AND 80s

David Dunstan, Monash University. The Australian community press in London was reborn in the 1970s through catering to the needs of a new generation of mobile and youthful travellers. Australians were given the opportunity by cheap air travel to undertake in unprecedented numbers extended work and travel experiences in Europe in the 1970s and 80s. This essay explores the development of the Australian community press and associated industries in these years and expressions of travel and tourism, popular culture, work and leisure. http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/Australians+in+Britain%3A+The+Twentieth-Century+Experience/137/xhtml/chapter15.html Great recent Danish TV drama Above the Street Below the Water.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7txZMjgh_h4

Review: http://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/above-the-street-below-the-water-1117942098/

The Bridge: this one is a joint Denmark/Sweden production - see trailer at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FcxzlXbKs

The Killing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y05HzA2RBI&list=PLcvObjGQpCd0_S0AdQdXypcIVQlC5PRiT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNzhxoDl07k

Borgen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVmotYGr7JM

http://www.unescap.org/stat/data/syb2013/ESCAP-syb2013.pdf

 

http://aseanstats.asean.org/

 

http://ssc.undp.org/