Joann Schmider

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.

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.

Rainforest Aboriginal peoples' Traditional Owner legal entities