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Active Transport:  
​The Richmond Vale Rail Trail ​Conference

Exploring the ecological, eco-tourism and health benefits of the Richmond Vale Rail Trail

Conjoint Prof. Stephen Wearing

The University of Newcastle
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Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle (UoN). His research and projects are in the area of Leisure and Tourism Studies, with a PhD focused on sustainable forms of tourism. Stephen has made seminal contributions in many areas including ecotourism, volunteer tourism and community development, the importance of community based approaches in the leisure, recreation and tourism sector has formed the focus of his research. His practical experience as a town planner, environmental and park planner at local, state and international level have provided him with real world experiences that he brings to his teaching and research.

Conference Speakers
  • Meryl Swanson MP 
  • Mike Mouritz
  • Dr Graham Brewer
  • Laurie Perry
  • Dr Stephen Wearing
  • Deborah Moore
  • Ben Ewald
  • Sam Reich
  • Tim Askew
  • Helen Plummer
  • Karen Partington 
  • Mike Halliburton
  • Ant Packer
  • David Atkinson
  • Prof. Michael Mahony
  • Geoff Wickens 
​Abstract
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Understanding the Tourist as the End-User.

How people explore cities as tourists is often not a part of the development of the infrastructure of growing cities, planners need to expanding their understanding of tourism and the  tourist experience beyond frameworks that often have limited ability to provide informed decisions and have also hampered the development of tourism destinations in the past. The complexity and nuances of tourism and the tourism experience means there is a need for better theory and practice beyond the rhetoric that assumes ‘build it and they will come’ with a need to ask  ‘build it and who will come?’ . The tourist is not a generic wanderer in these environs and there is a need to encompass this complexity in developing destinations.

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Understanding the Tourist as the End-User

Presented on 27th September 2017 at the Active Transport: The Richmond Vale Rail Trail Conference (2017)
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