ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses subject of sustainability, specifically its application in the area of tourism development. It focuses on different aspects of tourism sustainability and the apparent impossibility of maximising all the goals simultaneously. Sustainability in tourism development rests on giving greater control of the tourism process to host communities as uncontrolled tourism can have anti-developmental impacts. Tourism influences social, cultural and environmental surroundings of the origin and destination countries of the tourists. Australia and Papua New Guinea are two neighbouring countries in the Southern Hemisphere, which have more dissimilarity to share than anything else. The Federal government is more directly involved in marketing of tourism through the Australian Tourism Commission, rather than monitoring the growth of the industry. Assigning weights to individual aspects is certainly one of the most complex tasks in the process. Relative importance of each aspect may be difficult to ascertain globally.
