Kokoda’s Titanic Destiny
Link: Papua New Guinea Smartraveller Advice as at 29 May 2025 The current Australian Smartraveller...
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Tag: Charlie Lynn
An Expert Guide for Pilgrimage Treks Across the Kokoda Trail
Prior to Charlie Lynn’s first trek in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign there was no management structure in place and no mechanism for landowner communities to benefit from the few trekkers who passed by each year.
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‘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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Call for the PNG Government to acquire the Kokoda Trail as a National Tourism Asset
The gazettal of the Kokoda Trail by PNGs founding fathers in 1972 reflected their...
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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...
Read MoreA Complete Guide to Legal, Illegal, and Immoral Kokoda Tour Operators
Australians wishing to trek across the Kokoda Trail have an expectation they will be safe; campsites/toilets will be hygienic; and they will learn about the military history of the Kokoda campaign. Their international window to...
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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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