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Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd Communiques: January 2009 to April 2009 Communique # 17 January 2009 Communique # 18, February 2009 Communique # 19, March 2009 Communique # 20, April 2009

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To members of the Pacific Asia Tourism Pty. Ltd. network.

Communique # 17 January 2009

SOUTH PACIFIC: Public access to Australian Government submission Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd and Qantas were the major tourism commentators within the 70 contributions to the Australian Government (The Senate) Inquiry into the economic and security challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific. PAT submission: www.aph.gov.au/Senate/Committee/FADT_CTTE/swpacific/submissions/sub31 Qantas submission: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/Committee/fadt_ctte/swpacific/submissions/sub41.pdf Among the many good submissions were:

Lowy Institute for International Policy: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/Committee/fadt_ctte/swpacific/submissions/sub14.pdf

World Vision http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/Committee/fadt_ctte/swpacific/submissions/sub47.pdf

Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/Committee/fadt_ctte/swpacific/submissions/sub69.pdf

Wildlife Conservation - Indonesia www.rhinos-irf.org/adoptarhino/

The Sumatran rhinoceros is one of the most endangered mammals on Earth. Fewer than 300 animals survive in small, isolated forest fragments in Indonesia and Malaysia. You can help to protect the Sumatran rhino from extinction by "adopting" a rhino at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary! The Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS), a 250-acre complex located within Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, is currently home to five rhinos that are part of an intensively managed research and breeding program aimed at increasing the Sumatran rhino population in the wild. At the sanctuary, the rhinos reside in large, open areas where they can experience a natural rainforest habitat while still receiving state-of-the-art veterinary care and nutrition. www.rhinos-irf.org/sos . Satwa Elephant Ecolodge is adjacent to Way Kambas National Park

www.ecolodgesindonesia.com More details from Steve Noakes,

Director of Ecolodges Indonesia, steve@ecolodgesindonesia.com

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www.oceaniatourismallaince.net

Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is a Founding Partner of the OSTA and a member of the South Pacific Tourism Organisation. www.southpacific.travel or www.spto.org

South Andaman Coast – Thailand

Kiribati (pronounced Kiri-bas)

The only place on earth where the Equator embraces the International Date Line Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is an Australian Partner Organisation (APO) with the AusAID funded AYAD – Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD). We are the APO for a 2009 AYAD placement with the National Kiribati Tourism Organisation www.visit-kiribati.com/kiribati/export/sites/KTO/ Glen Hornby from Griffith University is winging his way to Kiribati to take up the 6 month AYAD placement in March 2009. www.ausaid.gov.au/youtham/

Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is a sponsor/supporter of the South Andaman Coast Sustainable Tourism network in southern Thailand – a region working towards a World Heritage Listing for its unique marine resources. We are collaborating with researchers from Prince of Songkla University and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand to assist in the planning and management of sustainable tourism approaches in this developing region close to the Thai/Malaysia border. The Network aims to achieve the following destination vision: Quality Thai community and environmental tourism experiences for responsible visitors. www.SACSTN.org

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Asia Pacific Customer Service Training for Tourism

New marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean

TourismROI is the first centralized source of information for Travel & Tourism management, development and investment opportunities in more than 12,000 destinations worldwide. TourismROI is based on the principle of ‘Massive Collaboration’, a powerful method for building communities of like-minded individuals to focus their intellect and energy to achieve a collective objective such as the sustainable development of Travel & Tourism. In order to join in TourismROI's Massive Collaboration effort, please register your name and email. You must be registered to add content. www.TourismROI.com Countries where Pacific Asia Tourism Pty. Ltd. is Master Representative for www.tourismROI.com South Pacific: Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea as well as the South Pacific islands of Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna South Asia: Bhutan, Pakistan, Maldives South East Asia: Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, East Timor, Lao PDR, Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia North Asia: South Korea, Mongolia

‘Attitude is like the sun …. it warms our hearts and gives us life ! ’ says Suzanne Noakes, a Director of Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd. Suzanne conducts Customer Service Training programs including being highly experienced in the one-day Aussie Host Customer Service program – right across the Asia Pacific region. More details can be downloaded from: http://www.oceaniatourismalliance.net/Documents/Training%20&%20Education%20Suzanne%20Noakes%2009%20Nov%2008.pdf

Protecting marine biodiversity. 75% of the world's corals are found in the Indo-Pacific region, and corals there are disappearing twice as fast as tropical rain forests, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. www.edf.org (Almost finished) President George Bush has declared a massive part of the US controlled regions of the Pacific Ocean as Marine Preserves. It covers 195,274 square miles. www.oceans.ceq.gov All will be protected as national monuments — the same status afforded to statues and cultural sites — under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The law allows the government to immediately phase out commercial fishing and other extractive uses. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99036156&ft=1&f=1001

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Steve Noakes, Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd, recently visited Northern Thailand to meet Shane Beary and his team at Track of the Tiger www.track-of-the-tiger.com & Voluntourists without Borders http://voluntourists-without-borders.com/

Resources: A SRI LANKA Tribute to Mother Earth – Carbon Clean Tourism Destination

www.earthlung.travel/EarthLung%20Song.htm

The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008

www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4569&page=0

Prognostication is by far the riskiest form of punditry. The 10 commentators and leaders on this list learned that the hard way when their confident predictions about politics, war, the economy, and even the end of humanity itself completely missed the mark.

The "A Land Like No Other" song is a pioneering effort by Sri Lanka Tourism in service of Mother Earth and a reminder to the all of the importance of immediate action. The song débuted at the opening session of the 2008 November World Tourism Mart Ministers' Summit.

Explore. Learn. Help. Grow. Scientific, Academic, Volunteer, Educational. Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is the Focal Point in Asia Pacific for the SAVE Travel Alliance. The website continues to include more content: See www.save-travel.org

Part of the Track of the Tiger business operations, the Pang Soong Lodge, Outdoor Education & Research Centre is a privately owned 10 hectare property located in pristine forest, only 50kms (45 minutes from Chang Mai in northern Thailand) and easily accessed along good roads. Various Scientific, Academic, Volunteer & Educational opportunities are available is this suberb natural environment www.pang-soong-lodge.com

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United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia Pacific

www.earthportal.org The Earth Portal is a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of environmental issues in human affairs. It contains no commercial advertising and reaches a large global audience.

The Earth Portal has three components:

1. The Encyclopedia of Earth, with over 3,500 articles, is produced and reviewed by 1,000 scholars from 60 countries.

2. The Earth Forum provides commentary from scholars and discussions with the general public.

3. The Earth News offers news stories on environmental issues drawn from many sources.

UNESCAP Asia-Pacific Population Journal.

www.unescap.org/appj.asp The Asia-Pacific Population Journal published three times a year is one of the few primary journals published by the UNESCAP secretariat. It focuses on bringing out the policy and programme implications of population research in the Asia and Pacific region. All 2008 issues are available online

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Flagship magazine of the Washington, DC-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Site features full text from current issue, breaking global news www.foreignpolicy.com

Take an eco holiday in Indonesia in 2009.

Contribute to the conservation of endangered species.

www.ecolodgesindonesia.com

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March 2009 Join an expedition

Indonesia:

Departs 15 June, 2009. This trip will help biodiversity conservation in Indonesia. Led by Steve Noakes. Visit both sides of the Wallace line, the deep water barrier between the islands of Bali and Lombok that marks the divide between Australia / New Guinea and South East Asian fauna - includes Bali, Flores Island, Kalimantan, Sumatra and Java. www.parktours.com.au/toursDet.asp?id=190&action=showtour

Papua New Guinea

Departs 14 May ( Tumbuna Sing Sing), 11 August (Mt Hagen Cultural Show) and 28 October 2009 (Morobe Sing Sing): Join Suzanne Noakes on a once-in-a-lifetime exploration of Papua New Guinea in 2009 with Asia Trans Pacific Journeys, Boulder, Colorado www.asiatranspacific.com/ATJ/luxury-group-travel/papua-new-guinea.aspx

www.asiatranspacific.com/ATJ/about/field-staff.aspx

Vietnam:

Departs 19 October 2009 Special Fund Raising Tour to Nui Dat and Long Tan - key sites of ANZAC involvement in the Vietnam War period. This special trip will be led by Dave Sabben, the platoon commander of 12 Platoon, Delta Company, and 6 RAR. (Royal Australian Regiment) who fought in the battle of Long Tan. The trip will raise funds for the local area Baria Orphanage and Nui Dat kindergarten www.mannington.com.au/AVVRG/index.html

The second trip departs 22 Oct and includes ‘Little Patti’, the 1960’s Australian pop singer who was evacuated with the battle of Long Tan commenced. ttp://www.mannington.com.au/AVVRG Steve Noakes, Battle of Long Tan site visit, 2008 www.mannington.com.au/AVVRG/Documents/Steve%20Noakes.PDF

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Scientists Without BordersSM aims to mobilize and coordinate science-based activities that improve quality of life in the developing world. Conceived by The New York Academy of Sciences and the United Nations Millennium Project conceived Scientists. www.scientistswithoutborders.org

OSTA Supports Global Sustainable Tourism Principles

OSTA (of which Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is a Founding Partner) has been accepted as a formal Network Member of the new partnership for Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria (GSTC ) The GSTC Partnership is a coalition of over 30 organizations working together to foster increased understanding of sustainable tourism practices and the adoption of universal sustainable tourism principles. (www.sustainabletourismcriteria.org) The Partnership, which was initiated by Rainforest Alliance, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Foundation, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), launched the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria at the World Conservation Congress in October 2008. These criteria represent the minimum standard that any tourism business should aspire to reach in order to protect and sustain the world’s natural and cultural resources while ensuring tourism meets its potential as a tool for poverty alleviation.

Recession May Hinder Sustainable Tourism Worldwatch Institute Around the world, developers of ecotourism and other "sustainable tourism" operations are searching for ways to ensure that the economic recession does not undermine years of progress. http://us.oneworld.net/article/360732-recession-may-hinder-sustainable-tourism

Visit ASEAN Pass

It is supported by the national tourism organisations of the countries of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. This Visit ASEAN Pass (VAP) web portal will essentially be used as a Business-to-Business (B2B) tool between tourism service providers in ASEAN and travel agents worldwide. The VAP e-platform will contain both general and specific information on the individual ASEAN destinations. www.asean-tourism.com

The Visit ASEAN Pass, comprising the ASEAN AirPass, the ASEAN HotelPass and the ASEAN TourPass have been introduced to provide travellers with SPECIAL deals that have been offered by the national airlines and members of the national hotel associations and national travel agents associations

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Preventing an economic catastrophe in developing countries The world's progress towards the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) could be pushed back by at least three years by the "financial tsunami" sweeping across the world. Research from the UK Department for International Development (DfID) predicting that another 90 million people will be pushed into poverty by the end of next year. www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/09/recession-millennium-goals

International Volunteer Tourism

UNEP Year Book 2009

Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction:2008 - Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region

Foreign Policy magazine

The Long Legs of the Crash: 13 Unexpected Consequences of the Financial Crisis

Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics, Tufts University, USA

Already, the Wall Street way of life seems to have gone the way of the dodo. An entire country—are you reading this, Iceland?—went belly up overnight. And good luck if your last job title was “mortgage-backed securities trader.” But if there are some predictable economic hardships we can expect from the current crisis, there are also some trickle-down effects that aren’t so foreseeable. Here, 13 surprising consequences of the crash: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4689#

‘The Journal of International Volunteer Tourism and Social Development provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of cross cultural interactions from local to global based within international volunteer tourism.’ Steve Noakes, member of the Editorial Board: Journal of International Volunteer Tourism and Social Development http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/1754-6362

New Science and Developments in Our Changing Environment. The UNEP Year Book 2009 presents work in progress on scientific understanding of global environmental change, as well as foresight about possible issues on the horizon. The aim is to raise awareness of the interlinkages among environmental issues that can accelerate the rates of change and threaten human wellbeing. http://www.unep.org/geo/yearbook/yb2009/

This publication aims to build awareness for indigenous knowledge as an effective tool for reducing risk from natural hazard-related disasters. It presents a collection of 18 indigenous practices which were developed over time in the communities China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Types of disasters include earthquake, cyclone (typhoon), drought, and slides, river bank erosion, tsunami and zud. http://www.preventionweb.net/files/3646_IndigenousKnowledgeDRR.pdf

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Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd supporting:

Linking Asia Pacific into a Global Travel initiative for Scientific, Academic, Volunteer and Educational Markets

www.save-travel.org

TourismROI is the first centralized source of information for Travel & Tourism management, development and investment opportunities in more than 12,000 destinations worldwide. TourismROI is based on the principle of ‘Massive Collaboration’, a powerful method for building communities of like-minded individuals to focus their intellect and energy to achieve a collective objective such as the sustainable development of Travel & Tourism. In order to join in TourismROI's Massive Collaboration effort, please register your name and

email. You must be registered to add content. www.TourismROI.com

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Communique # 20 April 2009

Korea

Tourism and Mangroves for coastal communities of the south Andaman coast, Thailand.

Contributors to the April 2009 Korea Travel Conference in Chang-won (L to R) Xu Jing, UNWTO Regional Representative for Asia Pacific, Dr Paul Rogers, Byoung woo Park, UNWTO and Steve Noakes. Paul & Steve delivered two keynote speeches at the UNWTO Special Session, addressing: • What steps can governments,

businesses, the media and tourists take to ensure tourism is promoted as a vehicle for green growth in the current economic crisis;

• What techniques and

practices can be employed to enhance the economic benefits of sustainable tourism, including opportunities for nature-based tourism and ecotourism for local communities?

Mangroves are often an undervalued resource that can in fact be interesting ecotourism attractions with the right form of interpretation and opportunity for engagement and eco-experiences available to visitors. Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is a sponsor/supporter of the South Andaman Coast Sustainable Tourism Network http://www.sacstn.org/

www.sacstn.org/pdf/Newsletter_Vol2Issue5_M

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New Guinea Circumnavigation

PAT Director, Suzanne Noakes spent six weeks in March & April on a circumnavigation expedition of the island of New Guinea, including Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya (West Papua), part of Indonesia. Suzanne has been guiding explorations of Melanesian destinations from Fiji to Irian Jaya for over 20 years. The 2009 circumnavigation trip was conducted by Seattle USA based Zegrahm Expeditions (www.zeco.com)

Three departures this year: Departs 14 May ( Tumbuna Sing Sing), Departs 11 August (Mt Hagen Cultural Show) and Departs 28 October 2009 (Morobe Sing Sing): www.asiatranspacific.com/ATJ/luxury-group-travel/papua-new-guinea.aspx

Official Photo Library of Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority Hundreds of appealing, high resolution photographs are available to use for promotional purposes. All of these images can be downloaded instantly over the internet. All you need to do is sign in with your name and your password. www.pngphotolibrary.com

Next departures: Join Suzanne Noakes on a once-in-a-lifetime exploration of Papua New Guinea in 2009 with Asia Trans Pacific Journeys, Boulder, Colorado.

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Tourism & Climate Change in the South Pacific

http://www.oceaniatourismalliance.net/Documents/OSTA%20Pacific%20Island%20Carbon%20Clean%20Tourism%20Oct%202008.pdf The Centre for Tourism and Services Research (CTSR) at Victoria University, Australia) in collaboration with colleagues at University of New South Wales and University of the South Pacific has received a research award to undertake a project on 'Adaptation to Climate Change for the South Pacific Island tourism sector'. CTSR requires a Research Fellow for 3 years to lead case study research in one South Pacific Island country which will require at least 12 months onsite. For further information please contact Professor Leo Jago 03 9919 5055 or Professor Terry DeLacy on terry.delacy@vu.edu.au

Major Event Management example

Australian Youth Ambassador in Kiribati

For a brilliant EVENT MANAGEMENT case study, the annual Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia is hard to beat for its economic impact, CSR approaches and community linkages. (and great music!) www.bluesfest.com.au

Tourism’s close connections to the environment & climate make it a highly climate-sensitive sector similar to agriculture, insurance, energy & transportation. The Oceania Sustainable Tourism Alliance (OSTA) plans a program of research, strategy development & action to assist South Pacific Island countries and communities adapt to climate change. As its major industry, tourism will be a key component. (PAT is a Founding Partner of OSTA)

Kiribati (pronounced Kiri-bas)

The only place on earth where the Equator embraces the International Date Line Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is an Australian Partner Organisation (APO) with the AusAID funded AYAD – Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD). We are the APO for a 2009 AYAD placement with the National Kiribati Tourism Organisation www.visit-kiribati.com/kiribati/export/sites/KTO/ Glen Hornby from Griffith University now in Kiribati for his 6 month AYAD placement. www.ausaid.gov.au/youtham/

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SOUTH PACIFIC: Public access to Australian Government submission Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd Director, Steve Noakes was called as a witness to the Australian Government (The Senate) Inquiry into the economic and security challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific. www.aph.gov.au/Senate/Committee/FADT_CTTE/swpacific/ Comment to the Enquiry: ‘If we make the assumption that the security, governance and peace

of the Pacific islands will be best achieved if there are strong economies and jobs for people

and then ask, ‘What can create employment opportunities for them? then certainly the tourism

industry comes in there as a player. Already we know that in many of the island economies

tourism is the major or a very significant component of the local economy and we know that in every economy it is probably the most highly integrated component. A whole range of goods

and services that are produced or traded in those economies are stimulated by more visitor expenditure. There are wonderful opportunities for ‘agritourism’ of getting engagement with

the production of agricultural products into the supply chains for the industry, whether that is

food, growing crops that can end up in restaurants and hotels, or the production of other

things on farms that can be applied into the tourism sector.’

PAT submission: www.aph.gov.au/Senate/Committee/FADT_CTTE/swpacific/submissions/sub31

Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria

OSTA acceptance as a formal Network Member of the new Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria Partnership (GSTC) will enable we in the Pacific, not only to learn from the accumulated brain-power of this group, but also to input some of the valuable lessons we have learned about community-benefit tourism in Oceania. The GSTC Partnership is a coalition of over 30 organizations working together to foster increased understanding of sustainable tourism practices and the adoption of universal sustainable tourism principles. (www.sustainabletourismcriteria.org) The Partnership, which was initiated by Rainforest Alliance, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Foundation, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) These criteria represent the minimum standard that any tourism business should aspire to reach in order to protect and sustain the world’s natural and cultural resources while ensuring tourism meets its potential as a tool for poverty alleviation.

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Resources

State of the region:

(a) East Asia & Pacific update, April 2009

Battling the forces of Global Recession. World Bank publication.

'Developing East Asia is battling the forces of global recession. The impact of the crisis in the advanced countries was transmitted to the economies of the region with unusual speed. In the region, the initial global financial turbulence was marked by sudden reversals of capital flows in the middle-income economies, rapidly declining equity market prices, a sharp increase in the price of external private capital, a shortage of dollar liquidity, and in some cases, a depreciating currency.’

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEAPHALFYEARLYUPDATE/Resources/550192-1238574864269/5976918-1239010682147/update_april09_fullreport.pdf

(b) SOUTH ASIA, World Bank report.

'The global financial crisis will likely worsen these trends, particularly on the growth and balance of payments front. Slowdown in global economy will adversely affect South Asian exports and could hurt income from remittances. Lower foreign capital flows and harder terms will reduce domestic investment. Both will lower growth prospects.

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan033494.pdf

The Global Economic & Financial Crisis: A Timeline

This useful paper chronologically lists the events that lead to, according to some people, the biggest recession since 1930

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan033507.pdf

Foreign Policy magazine The Long Legs of the Crash: 13 Unexpected Consequences of the Financial Crisis

Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics, Tufts University, USA

Already, the Wall Street way of life seems to have gone the way of the dodo. An entire country—are you reading this, Iceland?—went belly up overnight. And good luck if your last job title was “mortgage-backed securities trader.” But if there are some predictable economic hardships we can expect from the current crisis, there are also some trickle-down effects that aren’t so foreseeable. Here, 13 surprising consequences of the crash: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4689#

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Is China the new America?

In the Great Depression, as in the current economic crisis, the downturn was particularly

severe because of a lack of leadership in the international order. The dominant financial power

of the 19th century, Britain, was financially exhausted by the First World War. The new major

creditor, the United States, had emerged as a strong economic player, but did not yet have

leadership committed to the maintenance of an open international economic order. The simple

diagnosis was that Britain was unable to lead, and the United States unwilling.

If the scenario sounds familiar, it should. The story from the Great Depression has an uncanny

echo in current debates about international economic leadership, with the United States

playing the role of Britain -- the exhausted debtor economy -- and China taking the place of

the United States as the world's largest creditor. But if China is the America of this century,

can it do a better job than the United States did in the 1930s? The way in which the emerging

superpower takes to this role will determine in large part how the world will emerge from the

downturn and the shape of the new global economic order that will follow.

Read more at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4778

WWF Annual Review 2008 WWF is engaged on many fronts to safeguard some of the Earth’s richest biodiversity and natural resources that support the livelihoods of millions of people. This Annual Review summarizes WWF’s role in forging a new global deal on climate change. http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_ar08_final_singles.pdf http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/?uNewsID=161961

10 Common Misunderstandings about World Trade Organisation http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/doload_e/10mis_e.pdf 10 Benefits of the World Trade Organisation http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/doload_e/10b_e.pdf

Trade, China and the World Economic Order, Part 1: The

Mechanics, and History, of Global Trade

Economic nationalism -- the urge to keep jobs and capital at home -- is both turning the economic crisis into a political one and threatening the world with depression. If it is not buried again forthwith, the consequences will be dire.

Developing countries (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) that have economically integrated with industrial leaders like the U.S. have caught up with those leaders in terms of GDP. Those five Asian countries averaged 31 percent of the U.S.' GDP per capita level in 1961, but had advanced to 67 percent by 2001. http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1761

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) it’s a forum for

countries to thrash out their differences on trade issues.

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Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is a Founding Partner of the OSTA and a member of the South Pacific Tourism Organisation.

www.southpacific.travel or www.spto.org

TourismROI is the first centralized source of information for Travel & Tourism management, development and investment opportunities in more than 12,000 destinations worldwide. TourismROI is based on the principle of ‘Massive Collaboration’, a powerful method for building communities of like-minded individuals to focus their intellect and energy to achieve a collective objective such as the sustainable development of Travel & Tourism. In order to join in TourismROI's Massive Collaboration effort, please register your name and

email. You must be registered to add content. www.TourismROI.com Countries where Pacific Asia Tourism Pty. Ltd. is Master Representative for www.tourismROI.com South Pacific: Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea as well as the South Pacific islands of Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Niue, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna South Asia: Bhutan, Pakistan, Maldives South East Asia: Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, East Timor, Lao PDR, Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia North Asia: South Korea, Mongolia

International Finance Corporation. Annual Report

Created in 1956, IFC is part of the World Bank Group with a

focus on fostering private sector investment in developing

nations.

http://www.ifc.org/annualreport

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Take an eco holiday in Indonesia in 2009.

Contribute to the conservation of endangered species.

www.ecolodgesindonesia.com

Explore. Learn. Help. Grow. Scientific, Academic, Volunteer, Educational. Pacific Asia Tourism Pty Ltd is the Focal Point in Asia Pacific for the SAVE Travel Alliance. The website continues to include more content: See www.save-travel.org