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Technology has changed the way we travel. While social media can be a useful tourism tool, we need more education to ensure ‘selfie tourism’ doesn’t become the norm.
So-called ‘party’ towns like Byron Bay attract huge numbers of visitors for schoolies weeks and New Year’s Eve – but sometimes at high cost to the young people who live there.
The big cities are still magnets for tourists, but often they find the smaller towns offer a more satisfying taste of local life. It’s why rural tourism can be ‘the perfect small town business idea’.
How to make your holiday better for the environment through sustainable tourism.
At many popular destinations, residents are protesting against crowding, rowdy visitors and low wages. With some research, travelers can use their visits to enrich host areas instead of harming them.
China’s most popular social media app WeChat is on the rise in Australia thanks to demand from Chinese students and tourists. Here’s what you need to know if you plan to use it.
Bethlehem looms large in our minds with the approach of Christmas. But the reality for people living there now or tourists wishing to visit the ancient city remains deeply politically fraught.
Businesses worth their weight in salt should at least in principle have the capacity to remedy situations that go wrong, as part of their modus operandi.
Two tourism experts assess the evidence on whether visitors are drawn to the UK by the monarchy.
Until late November, Bali’s high economic dependence on tourism led its Tourism Board to dismiss the dangers of the Mount Agung volcano. This severely undermined the reputation of destination Bali..
Scientists call large marine protected areas effective tools for conserving sea life. But do they benefit countries that create them? Scholars explain how Palau’s huge marine protected area seeks to protect resources for Palauans.
Closing Uluru to climbers is vital to the preservation, maintenance and on-going development of culture, traditions and knowledge.
The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Board of management has this week announced that tourists will be banned from climbing Uluru from 2019. Sammy Wilson, chairman of the park board, explains why.
Busloads of people rubber-necking their favourite movie location can be a pest, but fan tourism is a growing business.
This highly-stylised slice of the Orient was originally a defence against racism.
More than 1,500 introduced species have been recorded on the Galapagos Islands, and most have arrived since the archipelago’s tourism industry was expanded in the 1970s.
As firefighters contain the fires that have been raging since Oct. 8, California’s wine industry is assessing the damage and hoping the tourists who fled the ash-filled air return.
Speaking with: Professor Bates Gill on Australia’s changing relationship with China
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William Isdale speaks with Bates Gill on the importance of Australia's relationship with China and how best to navigate the sometimes complex alliance.
Is Australia undervaluing its most valuable natural asset by only charging $6.50 a day to visit the Great Barrier Reef? And would it help if tourists were asked to pay more?
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management/ Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University
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Professor of Development Studies, Massey University
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Tourism & Events, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Tourism, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Marketing and Tourism, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
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Professor of Tourism, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Hospitality & Tourism, University of Surrey
