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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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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