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Rolf Gerritsen Author

rolf.gerritsen@cdu.edu.au +61 8 8959 5256

Subjects of specialization
Indigenous development, conservation management

Affiliation
The Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University, Alice Springs Campus,Grevillea Drive, PO Box 795, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia

Biography

Rolf Gerritsen has been a Professorial Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University since 2007. Rolf has taught at various universities, including a decade at the Australian National University in the Graduate Program in Public Policy. He also spent five years as Director of the Australian Centre for Regional and Local Government Studies, as a senior Ministerial staff member at both the Commonwealth and territory levels, and he ran his own research consultancy for a number of years.

Publications

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Impacts of the Alice Solar City Program on the Local Tourism Industry

Author(s):

Benxiang Zeng, Rolf Gerritsen and Rachel O?Leary

Impacts of the Alice Solar City Program on the Local Tourism Industry

The Alice Solar City (ASC) project was one of seven under the Australian Government’s Solar Cities Program. This paper investigates the actual and potential multi-dimensional impacts of the Alice Solar City project on the local tourism industry in Alice Springs. The results suggest that the ASC project was not a tourist attraction. There was a positive contribution from the ASC to the image of the town as well as significant impacts, both economic and non-economic, on the view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8807.1000134

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