Parks Magazine, Volume 16 No 2
The visitor experience challenge
The visitor experience challenge: an essential component of protected area stewardship
It has long been accepted that tourism can be a useful and effective tool for conservation and
management of protected areas.
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Tourism and Protected Areas
Benefits Beyond Boundaries
Edited by R Bushell, University of Western Sydney, Australia; P F J Eagles, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Bringing together the diverse experiences of park agencies and managers, conservation NGO's and international agencies this book examines the role of tourism in protected area management. Using case studies from around the world it provides examples of successful partnerships between community, public and private sectors. It also explores how tourism can be used as a management tool for financing protected areas. It concludes by summarizing the lessons learnt and the challenges facing protected areas in the future.
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Understanding tourism revenues for effective management plans
Protected areas are increasingly attractive to tourists, and some protected areas raise significant funds through tourism. Tourism is growing rapidly, and the regions that are seeing the greatest growth are in developing countries with high levels of biodiversity. This report asks two main questions:
- • what mechanisms can protected areas use to raise funds from tourism?
- • to what extent should protected areas raise funds from tourism?
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Sustainable
Tourism in Protected Areas: Guidelines for
Planning and Management
Best Practice Protected
Areas Guidelines No. 8.
These guidelines
aim to build an understanding of protected
area tourism, and its management. They provide
a theoretical structure, but are also intended
to help managers in practical ways. The
underlying aim is to ensure that tourism
contributes to the purposes of protected
areas and does not undermine them.
Paul Eagles, Stephen F. McCool, Christopher D. Haynes
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Guidelines
for Tourism in Parks and Protected Areas
of East Asia introduces park
tourism concepts, describes tourism in East
Asia and identifies tourism goals linked
to protected areas. It outlines issues
related to tourism in protected areas in
East Asia and provides suggestions for implementing
sustainable tourism practices tailored to
this region.
Paul Eagles, Margaret E. Bowman, Teresa Chang-Hung Tao
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Document in Japanese
Document in Korean
Document in Chinese
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Document in Chinese
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PARKS
Magazine, Volume 12 No 1:
Tourism and Protected Areas
This is issue of Parks addresses the importance
of tourism in park management strategies
IUCN (2002)
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International
Trends in Park Tourism and Ecotourism
Discussion of international trends in seven
areas of park tourism and ecotourism
Paul F. J. Eagles
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/
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Guidelines
for Public Use Measurement and Reporting at
Parks and Protected Areas
Guidelines containing options for measurement,
criteria for methods of data collection, and
identification of best practices and techniques.
The guidelines seek to establish an international
body of protected use data based on consistent
and comparable measurements, appropriate quality
control and verification for government agencies'
use in furtherance of resource and environmental
protection. (Print versions of this document
are also available in Chinese.)
Kenneth E. Hornback and Paul F. J. Eagles
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~eagles/parks.pdf.
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Resolution
of the World Congress
Selection criteria used for the annual British
Airways Protected Areas Tourism Award.
University of Waterloohttp://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/rec/wrldconr.htm |
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1997 Annual
Report
Summary of the Task Force's second year
of operation.
University of Waterloo
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/ rec/annual97.html |
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1996 Annual
Report
Annual Report of the first year of operation
of the Task Force on Tourism and Protected
areas.
University of Waterloo
http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/
rec/annual96.html |
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