Developing Papua New Guinea’s Tourism Sector
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Title: | Developing Papua New Guinea’s Tourism Sector |
Author(s): | Sumb, Allan |
Date published: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University |
Series/Report no.: | Department of Pacific Affairs working paper series: 2020/3 |
Description: | This paper focuses on tourism in Papua New Guinea
(PNG) and a range of challenges that hinder the
progress of tourism development. Over the years,
tourism has seen continued growth and increasing
expansion to become one of the leading and fastest
growing economic sectors across the globe (Mihalic
2014; Rayel et al. 2014; SPTO 2018). Modern tourism
is directly connected to developmental progress and
includes an increasing number of new sites being
developed as tourist destinations (Mihalic 2014;
Rayel et al. 2014; UNWTO 2016). With its vast and
untouched natural environment, PNG has a great
deal of potential as a tourist destination (Rayel et al.
2014). However, tourism visitation to PNG in the last
few years has been relatively low compared to smaller
Pacific Island countries (Rayel et al. 2014; Sumb 2017).
In 2006, the PNG Tourism Promotion Authority
(PNG TPA) released the Papua New Guinea Tourism
Sector Review and Master Plan (2007–2017), the aim
of which was to bolster tourism growth.The PNG TPA
identified a number of factors that dissuaded potential
tourists from visiting such as insufficient infrastructure,
concerns about adequate health services and the
dangers posed to tourists by criminal activities (Basu
2000; Bhanugopan 2001; PNG TPA 2006; Rayel et al.
2014). The objective of this paper is to investigate,
identify and discuss the factors that deter tourists
from visiting PNG |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/203231 |
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