As an exciting outcome of the visit from the
South Australian Tourism Commission has been the development of a new
Environmentally Sound Technologies- Information System (ESTIS) site.
The SATC ESTIS site, known as ESTsa, will compliment the SATCs’ Design
Guide to Innovative and Sustainable Tourism Development.
The project group, consisting of Dr Martin Anda, Gregory Priest and
Noraisha Oyama, has been busy refining the site structure and uploading
information on a range of Environmentally Sound Technologies to the
database.
ESTsa will play
an important role in providing access to information on ESTs to Developers
of Tourism projects in South Australia. Developers
will be able to conduct searches within the database for Technologies
grouped within these four major focus groups:
- WATER
- ENERGY
- WASTE
- BUILT ENVIRONMENT
It
is hoped that ESTsa will enable Developers to make informed
decisions on technology choice and encourage them to integrated
more sustainable
features into their development projects.
The Design Guide, being produced with the
aid of Gall & Medek Consultancy
team in Brisbane, is due to be completed in December of this year
and will feature on the ESTsa site.
The
key objectives of the Design Guide are to:
- Reinforce
the vision and directions in the SA Tourism Plan i.e. strategically
develop accommodation.
- Seek
to align developer thinking with emerging planning policy
- Assist
development authorities in the assessment of emerging tourism
developments.
- Review
current best practice tourism facilities throughout Australia
and develop a user-friendly document, which provides
clear and practical
performance criteria and design techniques suitable to South Australia.
- Form
partnerships with government agencies that will facilitate
sustainable tourism development outcomes.
The
database is still in development phase and as such is not
available for general viewing. Once the database is
populated the technologies
will be submitted to the UNEP-IETC for further verification and
eventual publishing on the maESTro and ESTIS global databases.
Pictured
above 1: Noraisha Oyama, Paul Weymouth (SATC), Jim Gall
(Gall & Medek) get a quick solar electricity lesson
at MUERI from Dr Trevor
Pryor during their visit to WA and the ETC.
2. The SATC team at ETC get the lowdown on wastewater treatment
and
recycling from Campbell Durrant of Biomax.
» visit
the SATC corporate website (http://www.tourism.sa.gov.au)
» visit SA
Travel and Tourism (http://www.southaustralia.com)
» visit
Gall & Medek
(http://www.gallandmedek.com.au/)
» nESTs is
an information system maintained by staff at the ETC comprising
a searchable database to assist in the transfer of Environmentally
Sound Technologies (ESTs).
» ESTIS is
a multi-language, Information System (IS) management tool to assist
the transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies (EST).
