TTRA conf program

THE 50th annual conference of the Travel & Tourism Research Association (TTRA) is set to be held in Melbourne from 25-27 Jun.

Australian of the Year in 2007, Professor Tim Flannery will provide a keynote speech on the topic of “A Modern Tale of Wildlife Conservation, Murder and Redemption: Does Tourism Have a Role?”.

A keynote speech will also be made by the University of Hawaii’s Professor Pauline Sheldon, surrounding “Money Makes the Tourism World go Round - or does it?”

Other sessions include “navigating the waters of visitor statistics while avoiding the sharks”, “developing research programs”, “stabilising the shifting stands of new tech in data measurement”, “the role of research in destination marketing” and “understanding connections to land: guardians and visitors”.