Noakes appointed to Mackay Tourism board
Published on 06 October, 2011
CQUniversity Tourism senior lecturer Steve Noakes has been appointed to the Board of Mackay Tourism, during the organisation's recent annual general meeting.
He'll be serving alongside CQUniversity Council member and REDC* chief executive officer Narelle Pearse, who became audit committee chairwoman for the board.
This appointment continues a trend of engagement by Steve, who has also been appointed to the Board of Directors of the United Nations-endorsed Global Sustainable Tourism Council - the only global multi-stakeholder non-governmental organization that has 'sustainability for the tourism sector' as its core mission.
A leading advocate for sustainable tourism approaches in the Pacific Asia region and an active industry player for the past 30 years, the Mackay-based academic is the only representative from the Pacific region on the Washington DC-based Board.
Mr Noakes has also been confirmed as a member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) global ‘Panel of Tourism Experts'.
Steve Noakes comes from Griffith University where he has been teaching in a number of tourism courses, including Tourism Enterprise Management, Destination Marketing and Tourism Management. From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, he was active in tourism throughout the Whitsundays and the Mackay region, first as a tour guide on camping safaris and later involved in mainland and island resorts, yachting vacations and cruise ship management.
CQUniversity is offering two new tourism qualifications; the Bachelor of Tourism and Bachelor of Business (Tourism). The new Tourism degrees will be available at Mackay and Noosa campuses, as well as by distance education.
* REDC is the peak economic development organisation for the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday Region.