Sustainable Enterprises

About

The Sustainable Enterprises (SE) program is one of three sub programs of the STCRC and focuses on research into the business of tourism. The program recognises that a sustainable tourism industry is ultimately dependent on decisions and strategies developed at the enterprise level. In Australia, there are in excess of 100,000 individual operations, mostly SMTEs, that count tourism services as the major part of their operation. Enterprises that adhere to sustainable practices, innovate and harness the latest technologies will be more likely to prosper. In order to enhance enterprise sustainability, benchmarking, risk, evaluation, planning and management tools will be developed. Engineering products that provide innovative solutions to enterprise and infrastructure development, as well as resource use and waste management, will complement these outputs. Finally, ICT will generate key technologies for use in e-marketing and e-commerce, product distribution and business information systems.

Mission

To deliver and promote the uptake and application of nationally strategic knowledge, knowledge-based products and ICT in order to facilitate best practice in planning, management and operation of sustainable tourism enterprises.

Industry Reference Groups

Each research project within the SE program has an industry reference group with whom the researchers liaise directly. This ensures that specific projects remain on track and deliver outputs and outcomes that are useful to the end users. Industry reference groups are usually identified according to the particular character of each project and may typically include local, regional and/or state tourism organisations; local, state or federal government agencies; industry groups representing tourism operators and other non-government tourism oriented organisations directly involved in enterprise development or management.