Sustainable Destinations
Sustainable Destinations recognises that sustainable tourism development is ultimately
a holistic concept and that tourism impacts are manifest in specific destinations.
Environmental, infrastructural, economic, and social aspects of tourism development
must all be examined simultaneously as the neglect of any single facet may undermine
the achievement of sustainability objectives. Moreover, a destination management focus helps organise research activities and provides a vehicle for delivering a
coherent and useful package of outputs to core partners. A key output for users
will be the development of a suite of predictive destination modelling tools as
well as evaluative frameworks, designs, technologies, systems and benchmarks.
Mission
To provide global leadership in strategic R&D to improve the sustainability
of tourism in order to maximise the economic, environmental and social benefits it delivers to Australia. This involves development of tools and techniques for
estimating tourism’s contribution to destinations. This includes analytical research
to support wider policy decision-making and planning by national, state and local/regional
governments through exploring the economic, social and environmental consequences
of alternative government policies, plans or actions.
Key users – tourism commissions (local, state and National), tourism operators and
tourism industry associations, government agencies, communities.
Scope
Development of tools, evaluation methods and analytical frameworks for analysing
the competitiveness of tourism destinations at the local, regional, state and national
levels.
Development of strategies to enhance the competitive advantages of tourism destinations.
Development of tools for forecasting and planning for sustainable tourism development.
Development of tools for measurement of tourism and its impacts that will have strong credibility with political and economic decision-makers, including Tourism Satellite
Accounts and Computable General Equilibrium models.
Evaluation of government policies affecting destination competitiveness.
To build research capacity within the Australian tourism sector in all states and
territories to develop innovative and sustainable responses to emerging opportunities
and threats associated with an increasingly volatile and competitive global environment.
The Steering Committee’s Role:
- Provide input into determination of research topics - through advising on priorities
of their own organisations and direct involvement in the research topic development
process (in practice, the steering committee has been the primary driver of the
research agenda)
- Provide input into development of research projects – through commenting on project
briefs and draft proposals.
- Coordinate the designation of industry reference group members for each project
in which the agency is to be directly involved.
- Provide feedback to the program leader regarding any common issues of interest and
any concerns regarding CRC operation.
- Work with program leader and project leaders to coordinate appropriate dissemination
and uptake of research outcomes.
Industry Advisory Committee
The structure of the Program’s Steering Committee is currently under review. Pending
establishment of a revised committee consultations are carried out with the joint
Commonwealth/state government Tourism Research Committee.
Titles within this category provide research on appropriate tools and techniques
for estimating the contribution that tourism makes to destinations. Also covered
are tourism’s economic, social, and environmental impacts and discussion of policies
to enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of destinations.
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Program Leader – Prof Larry Dwyer
Qantas Professor of Travel and
Tourism Economics School of Marketing, Australian School of Business University
of New South Wales
Ph: +61 2 9385 2636
Fax: +61 2 9313 6337
Mobile: 0439 648 892
Email: l.dwyer@unsw.edu.au