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| best practice sustainable tourism for SA developers

The South Australian Tourism Commission is preparing a Developers Guide to Sustainable and Innovative Tourism Development with help from staff at the ETC. Dr Martin Anda and a team of researchers and technology specialists, including Gregory Priest and Noraisha Oyama, are using the ETSIS online information server as a platform to develop an online best practice and assessment tool for tourism developers and the SA Tourism Commission.

The Guide has the primary objective of providing examples of ‘best practice’ from a range of existing tourism developments within Australia including Ningaloo Reef Retreat, Seven Spirit Bay and Daintree Wilderness Lodge to promote the adoption of various design techniques and innovations by the tourism industry within South Australia.

The Guide is a key component of the goal of “raising the understanding of innovative and sustainable tourism” as contained in the SATC’s Sustainable Tourism Package (STP).

The SATC is seeking assistance with the provision of design solutions and illustrations that portray performance criteria for sustainable and innovative tourism development. The performance criteria will:

• inform developers of appropriate design techniques consistent with contemporary planning policies;
• supplement Council Development Plan policies; and
• potentially be included in any policy “Modules” to be established by Planning SA as part of the Better Development Plans project.

Pictured above are representatives from the SA Tourism Commission who recently visited the ETC Display Centre on the Murdoch University Campus in Perth.

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» contact Dr Martin Anda, ETC Research Manager
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