Making Kokoda Tourism Work
Preamble The failure to properly manage our shared wartime heritage across the Kokoda Trail over...
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Tag: Kokoda Treks
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.
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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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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Cape York Peninsula & Kokoda Trail under threat from Canberra’s Environment Zealots!
Peter Garrett, lead singer for ‘Midnight Oil’, is a well meaning environmentalist – but he can afford to be with a net worth of around $10 million (PNGK25 million).
Not so the woman sitting in her small hut in the Nauro swamp area alongside her young son with a net worth of a few kilos of ‘kai kai’ (sweet potato), some taro, corn and an assortment of local fruit!
Garrett is also a former Minister for Environment under the Rudd Labor government – he didn’t waste any time forcing his extreme environmental agenda on indigenous communities in the Cape York Peninsula area and along the Kokoda Trail.
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KOKODA ANTI-TOURISM AUTHORITY
NG is now the only country in the world which allows its most popular tourism destination to be managed as an environment park controlled by foreign aid-funded environment officials, consultants, anthropologists, archeologists, and social engineers rather than as a tourism enterprise for the economic benefit of traditional landowner communities!
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My Kokoda Story
I know I’m old school – a boomer from a bygone era who grew up surrounded by men who had fought in...
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Index: Major Charlie Lynn’s Adventure Kokoda Blogs
These papers, submissions and articles in the following blogs encapsulate my 32-year involvement with the Kokoda Trail in particular, and PNG in general. During this time, I was able to lead 101 expeditions across the Trail and share the experience with more than 2,000 wonderful Australians from all walks of life.
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Chronology of Pilgrimage Tourism Mismanagement across the Kokoda Trail
Under Australian management since 2009 trekker numbers have declined by 42% resulting in a direct annual loss of $1.2 million (K3.1 million) for village communities across the Trail.
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KOKODA BLOCKADE – A CATALYST FOR CHANGE!
The illegal blockade on the Kokoda Trail should be the catalyst for an inquiry into the operation...
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2024 Kokoda Day Commemoration Service
At Gallipoli we fought for Britain and lost… At Kokoda we fought for Australia and won! Kokoda Day is dedicated to the legacy of the New Guinea wartime carriers who were indentured to support our Australian forces in World War II.
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