‘Kokoda Historical’ is a Business Name masquerading as a company in PNG. The owner, David Howell, is a subrban salesman, masquerading as a historian – his transformation to a self-proclaimed ‘Kokoda expert’ without any previous military service credentials or any association with the veteran community is a compelling tale.
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Former boxer, Mick O’Malley, has emerged as the most influential powerbroker across the Kokoda Trail.
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The Kokoda Tour Operators Forum scheduled to take place in a 5-star Brisbane hotel on 23-24 November 2023 should be cancelled and either conducted via Zoom or switched to Port Moresby.
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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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Kokoda provided Wayne Wetherall an opportunity to transform himself from a suburban salesman into a self-proclaimed ‘adventurer, historian, explorer and philanthropist‘ with a ‘passion for our soldiers’ – until he was summoned to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission where he faced a sordid raft of accusations about the dark side of his character.
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Wayne Wetherall’s transition from a suburban salesman to a Kokoda adventurer, explorer, historian and philanthropist is a compelling tale.
However, a review of his website claims on the Internet Wayback Machine reveals the truth behind the myth he has crafted for himself since discovering the business opportunities associated with the Kokoda Trail in 2004.
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Dear Sue, Your comments regarding a person you did not have the courage to name at the KTA Trek...
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The Australian Kokoda Tour Operators Association (KTOA) is a small but shameless lobby group established to cash in on the Kokoda trekking industry and protect their business interests in PNG.
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Editor’s note: After publishing the Charlie Lynn article Losing Kokoda on May 14, we received a...
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The ‘blackbirding curse’ is as damaging to Papua New Guinea’s adventure tourism industry as the...
Read MoreRecent reports regarding the discovery of Captain Sam Templeton’s body by a trek operator, Wayne Wetherall of Kokoda Spirit, were widely reported throughout Australia and Papua New Guinea. According to Wetherall a 90...
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