Sustainability - Climate Change - Strategy
Climate Action - Leader (climate change accreditation)
Winner of 15 national, state and regional tourism awards
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Promoting Connectedness to Nature

 Children expressing connection with nature by creating habitats for their 'Moogies' - Aboriginal Cultural Belief System

World Responsible Tourism Day Case Study:

Encouraging pro-environmental concern using ‘entertaining' and ‘educational' ecotourism interpretation.

SUMMARY REPORT

Christopher Warren, Jane Gripper and Lara Claringbould

Preparing ourselves for the challenge

Are we prepared for the challenges from a greater number and more extreme bush fires? (courtsey from Australian Geographic)

Our focus in Australia appears to concentrate predominantly on the economy and potential changes in government. Meanwhile we have just experienced the ‘Angry Summer’ a prelude to what may lay in store for our future and demonstrated that tourism needs to do much more to prevent and be prepared for bush fires. However, tourism providers and communities appear to be either in denial, have other priorities or simply cannot afford to take steps to protect themselves and their visitors.

Climate Change - you can almost feel it!

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Changing behaviour through fear:notes from a tourist accommodation provider in Catastrophic Fire Risk Australia.

World Responsible Tourism Day: encouraging pro-enviornmental values. An experimental project

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Research confirms that individuals who have pro-environmental values also hold a strong connectivity to nature and are frequently positive thinkers. Therefore to stimulate society change to a better world, methods need to be found to build connectivity to nature which in turn can influence pro-environmental social practice and behaviour.

Responsible Planning for Small Tourism Businesses

Part of a programme to encourage greater destination sustainability, devised by the Interntional for Responsible Turism-Australia includes  a one-day workshop will be held on Thursday 30 August 2012 in Molong, hosted by Central NSW Tourism and funded by Destination NSW through the 2011/12 Regional Product Development Program.

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