The document summarizes an opportunity for undergraduate students to study abroad in Australia from January to April 2016 focusing on sustainable tourism and indigenous culture. The program will take place at Bond University on the Gold Coast of Australia and students will take courses taught with modern technology in a stimulating learning environment. Studying abroad provides experiences that enhance education and qualifications with an international perspective while connecting students to a global network. Topics addressed will include the impacts and definitions of sustainable tourism as well as understanding indigenous perspectives and the historical context of imperialism.

1. Undergraduate
study abroad.
Australia.
Sustainable
Tourism &
Indigenous
Culture.
Bond University,
Gold Coast,
AUSTRALIA.
January to April 2016

2. Bond University boasts state of the art teaching facilities that create an
invigorating learning environment. All lecture theatres, case study
rooms, seminar rooms and teaching labs are equipped with the very
latest computing and audio visual aids.
 Take a ‘study abroad’ semester
 January to April, 2016
 Sustainable Tourism & Indigenous Culture

5. Your Professor: Steve Noakes

8. Are you ready for the Best Four Months of your life?
Studying abroad is an experience that will stay with you for the rest of
your life.
It’s an opportunity to expand your educational horizons, enhance your
qualifications with an international perspective, connect you to a
global network of new friends and future business associates and most
of all have the time of your life as you grow personally and learn more
about a new culture in a safe environment.

9. Examples of topics to be addressed in
Sustainable Tourism & Indigenous Culture
Expressed simply, sustainable tourism can be defined as:
"Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic,
social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors,
the industry, the environment and host communities"

10. The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) establishes and
manages global sustainable standards with the aim of increasing
sustainable tourism knowledge and practices among public and
private stakeholders.

11. ‘Humans are a nomadic species. Driven by our need for recreation, contemplation,
connection and reflection, we are on the go. Besides being the world’s largest
industry travel and tourism has enormous and unsustainable impact on energy,
water, land and food use.’
A not-for-profit perspective: Sustainable Tourism & Indigenous Culture
Source: http://sustainabletravel.org/about-us/

12. Source: www.shareourpride.org.au/

13. www.winta.org/
‘For traditional Indigenous communities, success and a rich life are not
always measured primarily by the accumulation of money and assets.
Indigenous people often prize most their people, cultural traditions,
natural landscapes and waterways. Money is important in creating a
sustainable Indigenous tourism enterprise or a local economy, but
likely not with a strong central focus on profit margins. If the cost of
developing a tourism enterprises includes threats to people, cultures
and homelands, Indigenous communities are apt to forgo the
enterprise or seek alternatives.’
Understanding
indigenous
perspectives

14. ‘Imperialism has been the
most powerful force in
world history over the last
four or five centuries,
carving up whole
continents while
oppressing indigenous
peoples and obliterating
entire civilizations.’
Source:
http://www.reunionblackfamily.com/apps/blog
/show/41314854-imperialism-the-most-
powerful-force-in-the-world-history
Historical context

15. Culturally sensitive travellers?
Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/travel-is-a-privilege-not-a-right/article24922925/
‘The peak where the
Petersens and their friends
shed their clothing is
considered by the people of
Sabah to be the sacred
embodiment of a woman’s
virtue. As for causing the
earthquake, let me note that
in Borneo, even the flight of a
hornbill has meaning, as if it
were a cursive script of
nature, written on the wind.’

17.  Take an undergraduate ‘study abroad’ semester – in Australia!
 January to April, 2016
 Sustainable Tourism & Indigenous Culture
Contact: studyabroad@bond.edu.au