Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1093557

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1093557

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Enabling tourism, conservation symbiosis by engaging protected area visitors in focused lifelong activism. Rainforests occupy just 0.3% of Australia and are endangered by increasing visitation and urbanisation. This project will transform visitors to rainforest-protected areas from a potential liability to an asset by investigating their willingness to participate in volunteering, fundraising, donating and other forms of park-related activism throughout their lifetime, and using this information to design a prototype park where quality visitor experiences also translate into biodiversity enhancement. Australia as a result will emerge as a world leader in tourism/conservation symbiosis, realising substantial ecological, social and economic benefits from the thriving rainforests that this symbiosis fosters.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $70,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Impacts Of Tourism | Tourist Behaviour | Tourism Management | Tourism

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Tourism not elsewhere classified | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas |

Other Keywords

Impacts Of Tourism | Remnant vegetation and protected conservation areas | Tourism | Tourism Management | Tourism not elsewhere classified | Tourist Behaviour

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