Penny Spoelder | Specialist Consultant Best of the best: That's the lofty standard for making the World Heritage List. Nations around the world lobby hard to get their precious places, glorious buildings, wilderness, and historic ruins on the list. That [...]
Tracey Diddams | Specialist Consultant After almost three years of planning, Australian Regional Tourism are finally hosting their ‘annual’ Regional Tourism Conference in Ballarat. Master of Ceremonies and regional tourism business owner Gorgi Coghland started the event with the sentiments [...]
Alli Anderson | Specialist Consultant One of the very best things about working in tourism is encountering people who are in the middle of having incredible experiences. Designing and developing tourism strategies is so much easier when you have a [...]
TRC “Senior” Associate Alistair Henchman headed off on a winter/dry season grey nomad adventure from his base near Canberra. Travelling to Darwin via western Queensland, this post-Covid cross-border trip would not have been possible just 12 months ago. Alistair shares [...]
This year, as we celebrate World Tourism Day on September 27, we are considering the theme, Rethinking Tourism. The United Nations World Tourism Organization chose the 2022 theme as a call for those actively involved in the tourism industry, and [...]
What do you think of when you hear the description ‘Mid West’? Dry, flat and desert-like country with a few cattle stations and small towns? Mid West Western Australia is certainly none of those. This week, TRC Director Janet Mackay [...]
Words by: Michelle Lindsay “Stay safe next week … you know the concerns we have for you.” They’re not the words you want to hear when setting off on a hiking adventure in the remote centre of Australia. Especially when [...]
TRC together with partners Xyst and Martin Jenkins are working on an exciting project to complete a feasibility assessment for a proposed cycle and walking trail in South Westland in NZ. The proposal would see a trail link Okarito, Franz [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in tourism globally, and has challenged countries’ traditional tourism crisis and disaster management planning approaches. Given this, there is an urgent need to support the tourism sector as it emerges from [...]
Words: Chris Ord Sometimes you don’t really know what treasures are hidden in your own backyard until you start digging them up. That’s an ignorance often magnified tenfold when its someone else’s backyard you’re surveying. So, it’s no wonder [...]
