For this episode, Angus talks about his experience promoting geotourism, which really overlays with so many of the underlaying fundamentals of this podcast – stakeholder engagement & management, understanding the perspectives of community members, measuring impact, and working with various stakeholder groups to achieve a desired outcome.

An exploration geologist by profession, Angus has conducted tourism marketing, business management, and lobbying services as founder (1993) of Leisure Solutions. He also serves as Coordinator, National Geotourism Strategy for the Australian Geoscience Council and as a member and inaugural chair of the Geotourism Forum of Ecotourism Australia.

After 25 years working in information and communication technology and manufacturing industry development roles in an executive capacity, he has been engaged in ecotourism activities in Queensland’s Scenic Rim as an eco-certified tour operator as well as developing geotourism in the Red Centre, Blue Mountains and Flinders Ranges national landscape areas.

Due to this experience, Angus has worked with all sorts of stakeholder groups in order to have lands recognised for their value. This includes going to community meetings, meetings with industry representatives to discuss how geotourism and heritage preservation can impact their business, and it also includes dealing with many mining businesses so they understand and appreciate the historical value of the ground they may be working on.

Throughout this episode, Angus discusses the barriers and challenges he has experienced and what he has done in response to bring positive impact to the community members located within the destinations he has evaluated.

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