Community Based Eco-Tourism Project
Together with Project Partners, UNDP PNG and TPA will conduct a 12 month Preparatory Assistance Project for the implementation of a subsequent 4-5 year Community Based Eco-Tourism (CBET) Development Project. The CBET implementation project will be based on the vision of conducting a pilot project in selected communities and provinces of PNG to achieve the following results: Improving existing and developing new nature and culture based tourist activities and services that are owned and operated by local communities and micro-enterprises; To provide such services and activities to the customers of existing tourist accommodation and tour operator businesses; To market these CBET services through existing, improved and new mechanisms. The project documents are with Department of Planning to be signed by the Secretary.

Bigger crowd expected for Jiwaka Coffee Festival
THE second Jiwaka coffee festival in Western Highlands province will be held this month. Festival chairman Wanda Wal last week said the second festival was expected to be just as attractive and is expected to draw people from all over the highlands region and others. Mr Wandil said it cost them K12, 000 to organise the first festival last year, but this year it would cost about K20, 000 to stage the event. He said the festival would be held at the Banz club in the North Wahgi electorate from October 24 to 27. (Source: The National)

Milamala Yam Festival, Milne Bay
The Trobriand Islands were dubbed the Islands of Love by Bronislau Malinowski due to the unusual sexual practices he observed among them in the 1920s. Ethnographic studies of this period are notoriously unreliable however so don't expect any Gauguinesque naked natives here. From June to August every year, Kiriwina Island is busy celebrating the annual yam festival during which families compare their yam sizes as part of a series of festivities. The event begins with a procession of men carrying the newly harvested yams from the garden storage hut to the village yam houses while the women ahead sing and dance. During the festival time, traditional rites are observed. (Visit www.pngtourism.org.pg or e-mail info@pngtourism.org.pg for more information)

Tourism Investment Guide Book
After completing a Tourism Product Development Guide Book & Tourist Guiding Techniques Manual, Tourism Promotion Authority in consultation with IRC is now working on yet another interesting project: Tourism Investment Guide Book, which the draft should be finalized by this month. This Guide Book when completed is intended to aid existing & potential investors in tourism business. It looks at mostly Investment Incentives, especially various types of tax incentives that are available for the tourists as well as tourism business. Its main focus is to encourage more investment in the tourism sector while at the same time making investors aware of the various investment incentives available with tourism business.

University of Papua New Guinea's 1st Tourism Symposium
On Wednesday 3rd October the University of Papua New Guinea, School of Business Administration, and Tourism & Hospitality Management Strand launched the 1st Tourism Symposium on "Job Prospects". Dean of School of Business Administration Professor Albert Mellam officially opened the Symposium with the main theme of the night "Unveil Inspiring Tourism Careers". Speeches were given by various Tourism Industry stakeholders, Jacquie Simons, Operations Manager, Lamana Hotel; Jerry Agus Policy & Planning Manager PNGTPA and Norris Selu, Deputy Chairman Kokoda Track Authority. Interactive discussion was facilitated by the Panel of Rectors, 3rd year Tourism & Hospitality Management students. Also present were officers from PNGTPA, students from Hospitality course TAFE IEA, students from the strand as well as other students and lecturers from different disciplines of the University. TPA sponsored the Symposium with K2, 000.

Three New Wildlife Management Areas Created
Bensbach, Papua New Guinea (PNG) - The creation of three new Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), protecting some of the Asia Pacific´s most threatened and unique wildlife habitats, was celebrated during a traditional Mingu festival at Bensbach, Western Province on September 24-25. The creation of these new WMAs, together with the existing Tonda WMA, means that the TransFly region will now contain the largest continuous protected area in PNG. The celebration was launched by world-renowned Conservationist Prof Jared Diamond. Hundreds of local tribal people from surrounding villages celebrated the protection of more than 700,000 ha of this unique wildlife habitat by hosting a feast of colourful traditional singings that continued into the night.

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