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All about Geotourism Australia™ as follows.

National Geotourism Strategy, Australian Geoscience Council Ltd (AGC)

The Australian Geoscience Council Inc (AGC) is the Peak Council of geoscientists in Australia. It represents eight major Australian geoscientific societies with a total membership of over 8,000 individuals comprising industry, government, and academic professionals in fields including geology, geophysics, geochemistry, mineral and petroleum exploration, environmental geoscience, geotourism, hydrogeology, geomorphology, and geological hazards.

A National Geotourism Strategy (NGS) was launched by the AGC on 7th April 2021 following a period of strategic policy development by an appointed Reference Group. The AGC works closely with the Geoscience Working Group representing the Chief Geologists of State/Territory Governments and Geoscience Australia for developing strategies for geotourism development across Australia.

The NGS is being directed by a national steering committee which oversights the activities of seven working groups representing a working association of over 50 participants. The appointed coordinator of the NGS is Angus M Robinson, Managing Director of Leisure Solutions Pty Ltd t/a Leisure Solutions^®

Working Group 3 of the NGS is chaired by David Robson, also chair of the Geotourism Standing Committee of the Geological Society of Australia, a member society of the AGC.

Angus M Robinson is the manager of the active LinkedIn discussion group, Australian Geotourism Development comprising over 800 members.

Information about Geotourism Development in Australia

In Australia, how do we advance geotourism, georegions, and geoparks through the National Geotourism Strategy?

Understanding Geotourism and the National Geotourism Strategy’ Public Talk, 22nd March 2023

The Australian Geologist, March 2023, NGS Update

AGCInformationBulletin, Geotourism, GeoRegions, Geotrails, and Geoparks_22June2023

Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion Update_July 2023

Submission to the Senate Select Committee, Jobs in Regional Australia, Sept 2019

National Geotourism Strategy – Summary Overview

Approved Strategic Goals – National Geotourism Strategy

Submission to Austrade, Reimagining the Visitor Economy, 11 June 2021

The National Geotourism Strategy and the GSA, June 2021

Geoscience tourism to help with a geoscience malady?, Dr Jon Hronsky OAM, December 2021

Submission, THRIVE 2030, Austrade, 21 December 2021

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (JSCFADT), through its Trade Subcommittee: Inquiry into Australia’s tourism and international education sectors, AGC Submission, December 2022

‘Striking Gold through Geotourism’, SMEDG Meeting, 23 February 2023

Significance of Geology and Landscape in Natural Heritage – Historical Perspectives

“Geology teaches us that the surface of land and the distribution of land and water is everywhere slowly changing. It further teaches us that the forms of life which inhabit that surface have, during every period of which we possess any record, been also slowly changing.” Alfred Russel Wallace The Malay Archipelago. p 21 Oxford Press, 1869.

“Everyone interested in countryside, how it has taken shape, why it presents us with the varied beauties of mountain and woodland, river valleys and fertile meadows, is, if often unconsciously, appreciating its geology”. A.E. Trueman, Professor of Geology, Glascow University, 1938.