The Kokoda Trail has the potential to be a World class pilgrimage destination capable of providing a sustainable economic future for the traditional owners of land sacred to our shared military heritage. Since we led out first trek across the Trail in 1992, we have…
Read MoreThe proposed Bill was intercepted by the Deputy Chairman of the Tourism Promotion Authority who is well aware of the negative impact it will have on PNGs most popular tourism destination by having it managed as an environment bureaucracy as opposed to a tourism enterprise.
This Chapter provides a detailed response to each section of the proposed Bill.
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In 2002 Catherine Pearman, a teacher at The Kings School for Boys Preparatory School to interpret the pilgrimage for her young chargers.
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Papua New Guinea is the custodian of sites sacred to our shared wartime heritage. A Joint Agreement to protect the heritage of these sites for future generations is a necessity.
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The business model of the Australian Kokoda Tour Operators Association (KTOA) is based on minimising their costs in PNG. The most contentious issue in this regard is the loading of their porters – the more weight they force them to carry the fewer they will have to employ, and the greater will be their profit margins.
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