In the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area the Port Hinchinbrook resort and marina development continues to attract large scale opposition. Recently some 450 people comprising some 300 students from all over Australia attending an environmental conference in Townsville in North Queensland and some 150 regional and local persons in Cardwell to march against the development. The participants claim that it threatens the adjacent World Heritage Hinchinbrook Island and Channel. The Seminar is the second in a series of five that will be held alternatively on each of the five continents until the year 2001. The objective is to mobilize, on an international scale, the human skills and technicals resources of various universities to work together for the protection and development of heritage, for everyone's benefit.
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Best Practices in Heritage Development and Cultural Tourism. Registration and further conference information coming soon. The next electronic issue of this Newsletter will appear in two weeks, or later depending on the volume of news submitted.