{"id":3313,"date":"2016-05-23T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2016-05-12T18:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:08:34","slug":"dr-susanna-curtin-joined-a-research-expedition-in-january-2016-to-sumatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/05\/23\/dr-susanna-curtin-joined-a-research-expedition-in-january-2016-to-sumatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Susanna Curtin joined a research expedition in January 2016 to Sumatra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P1010926\"<\/a>As part of a LEAP project, Dr Susanna Curtin \u00a0from the Department of Tourism and Hospitality joined a research expedition in January 2016 to Sumatra with Associate Professor Amanda Korstjens and Professor Ross Hill from the Department of Science and Technology. The primary purpose of this expedition is to pave the way for research students to determine habitat requirements for primates and elephants; examining how forest structure influences primate and elephant populations.\u00a0 However part of the funding for the expedition was also designated to support research into the strengths , opportunities and threats of ecotourism in the \u00a0Genung Leuser National Park as tourism may be a way of protecting\u00a0 this highly biodiverse and important habitat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whilst Orangutan tourism can protect areas of forest which otherwise would\u00a0be cleared for palm oil plantation, Indonesia is currently\u00a0squandering a huge opportunity to offer a high quality, unique ecotourist experience.\u00a0 Sumatran rainforests have a wealth of flagship species as well as interesting birds, insects, mammals and reptiles.\u00a0 There are Asian elephants, Sumatran tigers, rhino and several species of primate including Orangutan (which only occur in Sumatra and Borneo). But as it is, the ecotourism that is offered at Bukit Lawakng and Tangahan is\u00a0mostly orientated towards mass tourism and focused on single species.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now a few months\u00a0later a small team of students are travelling back to Sumatra to interview tourists as to their motivations to visit Sumatra, the types of wildlife tourism they engage in, the knowledge of the wildlife guides they encounter\u00a0and the overall quality of their ecotourism experiences.\u00a0 It will be really interesting to collate the findings and to publish the results.<\/p>\n

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As part of a LEAP project, Dr Susanna Curtin \u00a0from the Department of Tourism and Hospitality joined a research expedition in January 2016 to Sumatra with Associate Professor Amanda Korstjens and Professor Ross Hill from the Department of Science and Technology. The primary purpose of this expedition is to pave the way for research students… Read more » about Dr Susanna Curtin joined a research expedition in January 2016 to Sumatra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[409,435],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-susanna-curtin","tag-wildlife-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}