Tagged with Professor Susanne Becken

Griffith University has called for papers to be submitted for the first East-West Dialogue on Tourism and the Chinese Dream to be hosted on the Gold Coast later this year. The high-level, bilateral discussions will bring together more than 100 representatives of Australian and Chinese government, education and research institutions, and the tourism industry. The […]

Griffith University is to host the first East-West Dialogue on Tourism and the Chinese Dream. Griffith’s Tourism Confucius Institute will combine with the new Griffith Institute for Tourism to provide the academic backdrop for high-level bilateral discussions next year. International tourism experts will focus on how the industry can contribute to the Chinese Dream, as […]

Tourism businesses must take increased responsibility for water use across the industry in the face of rising costs and a fast-depleting resource. This was one of the key messages presented to the Singapore International Water Festival this week, where water consumption among tourism operators in the Asia-Pacific region came under the spotlight. Griffith University Professor […]

Weather weary tourism operators and tourist destinations in Queensland can take a leaf from the Christchurch recovery book as they put a summer of cyclones, storms and flood behind them. Two years after the earthquake that devastated New Zealand’s second-largest city, a long-term, forward-thinking approach to rebuilding tourism is paying slow but decisive dividends. Normally […]