ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
FROM RESOURCES
TO TOURISM
BY THOMAS DEVITT, ECONOMIST, GEOGRAFIA
INTRODUCTION TRANSITION TOWNS
As more towns around Australia look for ways
to make an economic transition from mining and
resources, it is worth considering how it has been
done before. This can shed light on successful
methods for stimulating new economic activity,
much of which will be in tourism. While working on an economic and population
modelling study for the town of Jabiru in the Northern
Territory (a town planning for the closure of the
Ranger Uranium Mine), we recently investigated
how 10 different towns around Australia had adapted
to the loss (or decline) of resource sector activity.
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