Ian Kean Executive Director

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Ian KeanExecutive Director
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Regional Security Lessons from Bali

• BEING PREPARED

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RISK MANAGEMENT

• Risk management is not a new idea
• Risk management in tourism is new
• Tourisms role impact in an economy
• Tourism and leadership responsibilities
• Tourism too big to ignore
• Tourism too big not to take its
• responsibilities seriously

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ASIA PACIFIC SNAPSHOT(APEC ECONOMIES ONLY)
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APEC REGION TOURISM TRAVEL(WTTC Estimates
Forecasts)
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AICST PROJECTA Model Disaster Recovery Strategy

• Partnership with PATA and WTO
• Develop a worlds-best-practice model
• use past experience inc. Bali
• modern risk management principles
• economic and legislative options
• applicability to all countries

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Model Disaster Recovery Strategy

• OBJECTIVES
• 1 To provide comprehensive information
  strategies to guide governments (all levels) in
  planning, adopting managing tourism disaster
  recovery programs

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Model Disaster Recovery Strategy

• OBJECTIVES
• 2. To provide tourism industry organisations
  operators with information options to guide
  them in adopting procedures that will enhance
  swift sustainable recovery
• particularly relating to SMEs SmEs.

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Model Disaster Recovery Strategy

• PROJECT TIMEFRAME
• To commence in April 2003
• Conclusion report delivered by 30 Sep 03
• intention to have some elements of final
• strategy available to assist Bali
• - particularly more strategic issues

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Model Disaster Recovery Strategy

• PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• Led by CRC for Sustainable Tourism (Aust)
• (Prof. Jeff Wilkes leading academic team)
• Honk Kong Polytechnic University
• University of Hawaii

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Model Disaster Recovery Strategy

• DISSEMINATION
• AICST to all APEC economies (Governments)
• PATA and WTO to the Travel Industry
• seminar for Government organisations
• Workshops for tourism organisations
• operators
• Manuals for industry

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APEC International Centre for Sustainable Tourism
(AICST)

• A multi-lateral tourism research consortium
  involving governments, industry researchers
• Purpose
• develop coordinate collaborative research
• projects
• build capacities, capabilities, skills
• knowledge throughout the region

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ISSUES DRIVING AICST

• tourism travel is forecast to double in the
• Asia Pacific region in the next 12-15 years
• What will be the opportunitiesGovt business
• What will be the impacts, positive negative
• - on communities
• - societies, cultures, heritage values
• - on the natural environment
• - on tourism industry business generally
• What are the issues we need to address now?

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APEC 21 ECONOMIES
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OPPORTUNITIES CHALLENGES

• Investment capacity?
• Profitability?

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TOURISM IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

• Better able to take advantages of the
• opportunities
• Better able to meet the challenges
• Better able to be productive and profitable
• by
• BEING BETTER PREPARED