Projects:  Recently Completed

 

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Recently completed successful tourism planning and development projects include:

 

Nature-based and Cultural Tourism Portal Preparation of text for a new Internet portal highlighting Australian research on nature-based and cultural tourism with a particular focus on national parks and protected areas. Client: Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre.

Kimberley Region Visitor Services Plan Preparation of a recreation and tourism strategy for the lands and water managed by the Department of Environment and Conservation in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. The project will analyse current and projected demand for tourism and recreation services in natural parks and marine parks in the Kimberley region and make recommendations on the allocation of capital resources, management capacity, priority setting and partnering.

Recreation use patterns in water catchments South East of Perth Research into the spatial and temporal distribution of sport and recreation groups in water sources and catchments of the Southern Darling Region of south-west Western Australia. This involves the detailed mapping of up to 20 organized outdoor recreation and sport activities in forested water catchments of the Darling Range East of Perth Western Australia.

Business Plan for Barna Mia Animal Sanctuary and Wildlife Experience Barna Mia is a wildlife enclosure housing a range of small threatened marsupials in the bushland of the Dryanda Forest woodland, Narrogin, Wheatbelt Region of Western Australia. The business plan seeks to improve the operation and viability of Barna Mia and is conducted for the Department of Environment and Conservation.

Tourism Rapid Assessment Tool The Development of a tool for Tourism Western Australia to assist field managers to make preliminary assessment of the development potential of a site for commercial tourism accommodation such as safari camps, caravan parks, and ecolodges.

Governance options for the management of sport and recreation in water sources and their catchments of the Southern Darling region of Western Australia for the Department of Sport and Recreation (WA) Research report into governance, good governance and models of cooperative management suitable for the accommodating sustainable recreation and tourism use in water catchments of south-west Western Australia.

Department of Environment and Conservation Facilitation of the Inaugural Aboriginal Staff Conference- Yanchep National Park, 30 March - 1 April 2009. The aim of the conference was discuss issues affecting DEC Aboriginal employees.

National Trust (WA) Feasibility study Valuation of the social, economic and environmental benefits of National Trust programs. Resolve Global has developed a method to value the benefits of National Trust (WA) heritage programs. Implementation of the research methods commenced late in 2009.

Tourism Western Australia – Landbank Program Coordinating the identification and assessment of sites in protected areas suitable for low-key sustainable tourism development including stakeholder and industry consultation.