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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Sport tourism races to the front 

Published on 16 January, 2003 

Tourism worldwide is predicted to rise this year with sport tourism having a major impact on statistics.

Faculty of Business & Law’s Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research), Gayle Jennings, joined with others to prepare a book, 'Sport and Adventure Tourism'. Professor Jennings advised on the subject examining marine tourism for Chapter 5 of the book.

PhotoID:566 Dr Jennings also examined Marketing and Management Issues and Future Prospects with a case study of Shoalwater Bay in the Great Barrier Reef.

"Sport tourism refers to travel away from home to play sport, watch sport, or to visit a sports attraction, and includes both competitive and non-competitive activities," Dr Jennings explained.

PhotoID:567 Dr Jennings' research interests are in tourism, sociology and Asian Studies. Specifically, in regard to tourism, Gayle in interested in marine and national park tourism, special interest tourism, rural tourism and the impacts of tourism on host communities and settings.