Making Kokoda Tourism Work
Preamble The failure to properly manage our shared wartime heritage across the Kokoda Trail over...
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Category: OUR VIEWPOINT
‘My Kokoda Journey’ 1991-2024 – Charlie Lynn
Over the past 32 years I have led 101 expeditions across the Kokoda Trail. During this time I have also travelled to Canberra to brief eight of the 11 Ministers for Veterans Affairs and three of the Ministers for International Aid and the Pacific, on the need to protect our shared military heritage across the Kokoda Trail.
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A Blueprint for Kokoda Pilgrimage Tourism
The 138 km Kokoda Trail, a 10 metre-wide corridor on either side of the tracks over which the...
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Kokoda’s Titanic Destiny
Link: Papua New Guinea Smartraveller Advice as at 29 May 2025 The current Australian Smartraveller...
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Papua New Guinea – A Place of Pilgrimage
The Kokoda Trail ‘Just a day’s travel from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane and you can be on the...
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Pilgrimage Tourism Model for the Kokoda Trail
The 2025 National Tourism Conference planned for the Hilton Hotel in Port Moresby on 9-10 April...
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WTF has Kokoda got to do with neocolonialism?
As PNG approaches its 50th year of Independence it is timely to look at the transition from...
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Mark Nizette – Kokoda Trail Ringmaster?
Julius Wargirai was hired as ‘Acting CEO’ of the PNG Kokoda Track Authority (KTA) in a neo-colonial process orchestrated by DFAT PNG – it was a process that would not escape the attention of watchdog agencies in Australia! His engagement as ‘interim CEO’ prevented more qualified, but independently minded executives, from being engaged to manage the Kokoda Trail for PNGs economic benefit.
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Not enough bums for seats on Kokoda
The colourful line-up at Owers Corner for the Kokoda Initiative announcement of a ‘Kokoda Sanitation Project’ on February 6, indicates this decision originated from Port Moresby based ‘swivel-chair managers’ linked to computer screens.
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PNG Tourism CEO signs suicide note for Kokoda Tourism
TPA CEO, Eric Mossman-Uvovo has signed a death warrant for pilgrimage tourism across the Kokoda Trail.
The proposal for a new Kokoda Track Management Authority (KTMA) was secretly drafted in Canberra by a foreign official under the cover of Covid.
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2025 National Tourism Conference
We had hoped to get a guernsey at the 2025 National Tourism Conference to share the collective...
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Help Save the Kokoda Trail!
Gallipoli tourism numbers are UP – Kokoda tourism numbers are DOWN!
Gallipoli, which is 15,374 Km from Sydney, is managed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) – this year more than 10,000 Australians are expected to attend the Anzac Dawn Service on 25 April.
Kokoda, which is just 2,742 km from Sydney, is managed by the Department of Climate Change – this year less that 500 Australians are expected to travel to PNG to attend the Anzac Dawn Service.
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