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Author : Rod Caldicott & Pascal Scherrer
School/Work Place : Southern Cross University, Australia
Contact : rod.caldicott@scu.edu.au
Year : 2012

Coastal caravan parks in Australia are in decline due to the conversion of beachfront land to higher yielding forms of commercial enterprise (Prideaux and McClymont, 2006; Tourism Research Australia, 2007). The resulting reduction in accommodation facilities for mobile travellers (caravanners) over the past decade is contrasted by increasing consumer demand for, and participation in, drive-tourism experiences (Carson et al., 2002): particularly by grey nomad caravanners and a new wave of younger adventure seeking couples and families in camper trailers (Caldicott, 2011). These opposing trends are on a trajectory to create a serious accommodation facilities shortage for the caravanning sector of the tourism industry.

This paper uses a case study of caravan parks in the Tweed Shire, NSW, to examine the lifecycle pattern of this type of accommodation facilities in the area and to produce an informed outlook towards the sector’s future. The sector’s history is framed within Butler’s (1980) enduring concept of the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC).


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
374 Think Tank VII Tourism Resource Teams: Innovation with and for touris... file 12340 Oct 13, 2013

Communities have a variety of interest levels in tourism overall, including sustainable tourism (WTO, 2002). While we have witnessed increased awareness and discussions about sustainability and sustainable tourism, there is often a lack of s...

Author: Cynthia Messer, Ingrid Schneider & Okechukwu Ukaga 

Year: 2007 

373 Think Tank XIV Bird-watching Routes as Collaborative Stakeholderships... file 12118 Jun 27, 2014

Although there are numerous birding trails with varying levels of success, prior to this study, little research existed as to how birding trails are designed, implemented and managed. Thus, the study posed and answered the following research...

Author: Krisztian Vas 

Year: 2014 

372 Think Tank V Reflecting or Directing Perceptions? Fox Media’s Respo... file 12112 Oct 13, 2013

Disasters at tourism destinations often receive extensive reporting in the news media, particularly when one or more of their own nationals are affected. From terrorism to natural disasters, the stories of tourists and, more recently, their ...

Author: Sue Beeton 

Year: 2005 

371 Think Tank VII There's No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Innovati... file 12038 Oct 13, 2013

Innovation can come in many forms but all of these share three common elements - creativity, a problem solving approach and a new way of thinking. This paper proposes that current approaches to tourism and sustainable regional development h...

Author: Gianna Moscardo 

Year: 2007 

370 Think Tank X Rather Together? Network Effects among Students file 11901 Oct 13, 2013

Being faced with global trends that challenge the way tourism is conducted at present (Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Roman and Scott, 2009; Dwyer, Edwards, Mistilis, Scott, Roman and C., 2008), educators worldwide have recognized the need to ad...

Author: Florian Aubke, Ivo Ponocny & Anja Hergesell 

Year: 2010 

369 Think Tank X Drowning with Tourism? Stakeholder Perspectives from T... file 11801 Oct 13, 2013

Climate change and its impacts on nations, regions and populations as well as its anthropogenic causes have become one of the prevailing issues of global society and, hence, subject to ongoing debates among e.g. the natural, political and s...

Author: Anna Huebner 

Year: 2010 

368 Think Tank XVII Innovation riving structural power changes in peripher... file 11701 Aug 17, 2017

Traditionally, tourism development in small island destinations has been explained through the lens of the Dependency Theory (Bianchi, 2002; Britton, 1982; Brown & Hall, 2000; Buhalis, 1999; Butler, 1993; Hall, 1994; Harrison, 2001; Weav...

Author: Chaya Hurnath 

Year: 2017 

367 Think Tank XIV Sustainable tourism, market failures and the challenge... file 11474 Jul 07, 2014

David's presentation outlines the major market failures in tourism production and consumption and questions the changing role of (public sector) governments in market regulation and ‘economic’ development. The presentation focuses specifical...

Author: David G. Simmons 

Year: 2014 

366 Think Tank XII Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo... file 11135 Nov 06, 2013

“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...

Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov 

Year: 2012 

365 Think Tank XVIII Visitor management in protected areas file 11010 Jan 07, 2019

Key words: tourism management, tourism planning, visitor management, protected areas, New Zealand

Author: Julia Nina Albrecht 

Year: 2018 

364 Think Tank IX Cross-Cultural Interaction, Capacity Building and Sust... file 10970 Oct 13, 2013

This paper reports on findings which are part of a broader research conducted under the Learning and Teaching Fellowship Award 2007/08, aimed at the assessment of innovative blended learning techniques and applied learning in alternative st...

Author: Marina Novelli 

Year: 2009 

363 Think Tank VII The Community of Communicators and the Communication o... file 10919 Oct 13, 2013

In spite of the trend towards business as a key element in society and tourism, governments still play an important role in the sustainable development debate. Like any social institution, governments and related organizations do not always ...

Author: Keith Henning 

Year: 2007 

» Think Tank XII Origins, Evolution and Potential Future of the Coastal... file 10909 Nov 06, 2013

Coastal caravan parks in Australia are in decline due to the conversion of beachfront land to higher yielding forms of commercial enterprise (Prideaux and McClymont, 2006; Tourism Research Australia, 2007). The resulting reduction in accommo...

Author: Rod Caldicott & Pascal Scherrer 

Year: 2012 

361 Think Tank V Understanding Tourism Crisis: Case Study of Bali and P... file 10758 Oct 13, 2013

In an era of considerable disaster and uncertainty, many destinations have been made alarmingly aware of the fickle nature of tourism. While peak industry bodies, academics and professionals advocate the introduction of risk/crisis managemen...

Author: Yetta Gurtner 

Year: 2005 

360 Think Tank X Is Ecotourism a Strategy for Regional Economic Develop... file 10631 Oct 13, 2013

The state of Uttarakhand (in the Himalayas) in which the two case studies were conducted is trying to expand its already existing strength in the tourism sector as well. Tourism is estimated to make up for about 20% of GDP in Uttarakhand in...

Author: Harald Pechlaner & Christopher Reuter 

Year: 2010 

359 Think Tank X The Impact of Climate Change on Alpine Leisure Tourism... file 10527 Oct 13, 2013

This paper presents an interacting multi-agent model as a new method of examining the impact of climate change on Alpine leisure tourism and ski areas in a complex interacting model network. Since tourism varies at a small scale concerning ...

Author: Alexander Dingeldey & Anja Soboll 

Year: 2010 

358 Think Tank VII Learning as Prerequisite for Innovations in Tourism - ... file 10524 Oct 13, 2013

This article reports on an ongoing project that focuses on learning and innovation as prerequisites for sustainable tourism in a transnational environment defined by the European North Sea Region. According to Buhalis (2000: 113) providing i...

Author: Janne Liburd & Anja Hergesell 

Year: 2007 

357 Think Tank IV Aboriginal Cultural Tourism and Sustainability: Socioc... file 10296 Oct 09, 2013

This paper describes a qualitative study, which investigated local residents' perceptions of the sociocultural impacts of tourism on the Manyallaluk community, an Australian Aboriginal community located near Katherine in the Northern Territo...

356 Think Tank X How Fragile is Tourism Development in West Africa? The... file 10269 Oct 13, 2013

This case study complements recent research on FDI in tourism in African countries conducted by the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). These projects aim to better understand the pro-development effects of tourism...

Author: Lee Davidson & Mondher Sahli 

Year: 2010 

355 OPA award A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Sustainab... file 10265 Jun 26, 2014

Emerging tourist destinations can challenge ecological, economic, social, and quality of life barriers. These issues draw attention towards the consequences of increasing complexity that are often found as a tourist marketing system grows an...

Author: Sarah Duffy & Larry Dwyer 

Year: 2014 

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