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Volunteer tourism is often criticised for focusing on profit and volunteer experience. But improving monitoring and evaluation and putting host communities in charge can make it more sustainable.
Many more people experience World Heritage online than in person. While that further elevates the status of iconic sites like the Sydney Opera House, it has other more complicated consequences too.
If intelligently managed, festivals attract substantial numbers of LGBT tourists to regional and rural destinations, injecting additional income into the local economies.
There's no evidence Airbnb is worsening housing affordability. Rather it empowers female hosts and promotes small businesses in remote communities.
The blockade of the Kokoda Track by local landowners is a product of the complex political and economic issues currently affecting Papua New Guinea.
Tourism Australia's Super Bowl commercial is good strategy, reflecting familiar popular signifiers of Australia. Straying outside of these concepts hasn't proven successful.
A new report will supply some information needed for science based conservation measures in the Red Sea.
Ethiopia must address hotel industry challenges to take advantage of its huge tourism potential.
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.
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Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, University of South Australia
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Professor of Tourism, Victoria University
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin University
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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PVC Research and Innovation, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor in Risk and Resilience, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor in Tourism Management/Marketing, University of Nottingham
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Reader and International Consultant in Tourism and International Development, University of Brighton
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Lecturer in Architecture, Monash University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Winthrop Professor, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing and Strategy, University of Western Australia
