Analyzing Impacts of Tourism on Far North Queensland Indigenous

School: Western Sydney University - Course: SCEM 300965 - Subject: Accounting

You are investigating tourism in Far North Queensland particularly focused on its impacts on local people. For this activity you DO NOT need to look up these articles and read the whole article, you only need the exerts below. You will use the exerts to start constructing an argument. Note these exerts are for this activity only and may not represent the full article, if you wish to use any of these materials in your own work you should review the full article before doing so. Whitford and Ruhanen 2010 Australian Indigenous tourism policy: practical and sustainable policies? This paper reviews the development of Australia's policies for indigenous tourism and analyses those policies for their sustainable tourism content. It notes that in Australia, tourism is increasingly seen as an instrument for sustaining indigenous communities, many of whom look to tourism for a better future. Growing intervention from Australian federal and, more recently, State/Territory governments has sought to create tourism policies to facilitate market growth and product development in the indigenous sector. Yet the effectiveness and appropriateness of these policies, particularly in terms of a sustainable approach to development, has been questioned. A qualitative study of Australian State/Territory governments' policy for indigenous tourism examines the extent to which sustainable development principles are addressed. The results revealed that 32 of the 35 analysed policies demonstrated "sustainability rhetoric" that lacked the rigour and depth to realise any legitimate moves towards achieving sustainable tourism development for indigenous peoples. Based on the study's findings, this paper recommends that there cannot be a "one size fits all" framework for indigenous tourism development to suit all circumstances. Policies need to draw upon indigenous diversity and, in a consistent, collaborative, coordinated and integrated manner, provide the mechanisms and capacity-building to facilitate long-term sustainable indigenous tourism. Dyer, Aberdeen, and Schuler 2003 Tourism impacts on an Australian indigenous community: a Djabugay case study Although the Djabugay people experienced various outcomes from participation in the tourist industry, the community did not appear to experience substantial economic or socio-cultural benefits. As such, the legacy of disadvantage from colonialism is not necessarily reversed by this engagement with tourism. Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation 2014 YIRRGANYDJI: KULPUL-WU MAMINGAL "LOOKING AFTER YIRRGANYDJI SEA COUNTRY" There are a wide range of user groups of our sea country including tourism, marine transport, commercial and recreational fisheries to name a few. We are concerned about the competing uses of our land, sea and resources and the resulting pressures that our sea country faces. Our sea country is increasingly being impacted by pressures that are local, regional, national and in some cases global. Our country faces a range of pressures, from development, shipping traffic, overharvesting, visitors, invasive species, damage and interference to cultural sites, fragmentation, disturbance and impact on marine turtles and dugongs, commercial fishing, limited scientific knowledge, extraction of water, altered hydrological and fire regimes through to extreme weather events, made more acute with a growing population. We understand that some impacts are beyond our ability to manage such as activities that are Downloaded by Ernest Russel Tayson (russeltayson@gmail.com)lOMoARcPSD|9459941

occurring long distances away in the catchments which impact on the health of ecosystems and species in our sea country downstream or shipping or mining which will be difficult for us to regulate or control. A.L. Hardy & R.J.S. Beeton 2001 Sustainable Tourism or Maintainable Tourism: Managing Resources for More Than Average Outcomes This study has focused on stakeholder perceptions of the tourism experience in the Daintree region, and it has found that stakeholder perceptions are Sustainable Tourism or Maintainable Tourism heterogeneous and context specific. The differences in perception may be related to the definitional and operational arguments regarding sustainable tourism, whereby sustainable tourism is a concept which may involve trade-offs between competing interests (Hunter, 1997). The competing aspects of sustainable tourism are represented by stakeholder groups, whose perceptions need to be understood in order to prevent conflict between groups (Gee & Fayos-Sola 1997). Moreover, without a clear understanding of differing subgroups of tourists, management strategies may not be adequate in addressing the expectations and needs of these differing groups. The results of this study also suggest that an understanding of stakeholder perceptions is advantageous as it facilitates an understanding of whether tourism is sustainable, or maintainable, on a regional scale. However, an under- standing of stakeholder perceptions is limited in that it does not address all aspects of sustainability, such as impact mitigation or minimisation. However, when combined with schemes such as NEAP, which addresses mostly the envi- ronmental impacts of individual operators, an understanding of stakeholder perceptions can ensure that the socio-cultural as well as the environmental aspects of sustainable tourism have been addressed.