Este artigo analisa uma série de iniciativas estratégicas que têm sido desenvolvidas pelo Turismo de Queensland (TQ), uma organização estatal de turismo, na Austrália, para desenvolver o turismo e, principalmente, as redes de destinos turísticos. Este artigo, em primeiro lugar, examina a natureza do turismo urbano sustentável (SUT) e discute as abordagens para defini-la. Sugere que o desenvolvimento SUT requer uma abordagem genérica para melhorar as operações de turismo sustentável, entre todos os fornecedores em uma área urbana. Além disso, sugere que as melhores práticas em marketing e desenvolvimento de políticas podem ser adotadas para atrair os turistas para um destino SUT e são fornecidos exemplos dessa abordagem.

This paper examines a series of strategic initiatives that have been undertaken by Tourism Queensland (TQ), a State Tourism Organization in Australia, to develop tourism and in particular to develop networks in tourism destinations. This paper firstly examines the nature of sustainable urban tourism (SUT) and discusses approaches to defining it. It suggests that developing SUT requires a generic approach to improving sustainable tourism operations amongst all suppliers in an urban area. Further, this approach suggests that best practice in marketing and policy development can be adopted to attract tourists to a SUT destination and examples of this approach are provided.

Fecal egg count scores were used to investigate the distribution and abundance of intestinal helminths in the population of a rural village. Prevalences of the major helminths were 41% with Ascaris lumbricoides 60% with Trichuris trichiura and 50% with Necator americanus. All three parasites showed a highly aggregated distribution among hosts. Age/prevalence and age/intensity profiles were typical for both A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura with the highest worm burdens in the 50-10 year old children. For hookworm both prevalence and intensity curves were convex in shape with maximum infection levels in the 30-40 year old age class. Infected females had higher burdens of T. trichiura than infected males in all age classes of the population; there were no other effects of host gender. Analysis of associations between parasites within hosts revealed strong correlations between A. lumbricoides and T. lumbricoides and T. trichiura. Individuals with heavy infections of A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura showed highly significant aggregation within households. Associations between a variety of household features and heavy infections with A. lumbricoides and T. trichiura are described.