Joann Schmider
Research Details
Thesis Name
Collecting, cognitioning and capitalising local cultural knowledge for tourism: a Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area rainforest Aboriginal peoples' study.Thesis Abstract
To develop a management model for assisting local rainforest Aboriginal groups to collect together their Traditional Cultural Knowledge supply and to reimagine, or recognate this into products, for cultural and economic benefit through the tourism industry.
Why My Research is Important/Impacts
There are no practical cultural databasing guides within the Indigenous tourism and or Traditional Cultural Knowledge literature that can be utilised to assist the Traditional Owner groups and support their engagement with the region's $2.7bn land related economy, particularly tourism industry operators and managers.
Funding/Scholarship
CQUniversity Postgraduate Research Award — Indigenous (UPRA-I)Partners
Rainforest Aboriginal peoples' Traditional Owner legal entities
