CHAPTER : III Practical Management Tools and Approaches for Resource Protection and

Assessment
THE FOUR MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THIS CHAPTER ARE TO:
 Analyze the integrative planning approaches
 Introduce different examples of protected area planning in CANADA
 Discuss the methods available for stakeholder involvement
 Identity different tools for ecotourism planning
INTRODUCTION:
 Sustainable tourism needs to be viewed in the context of sustainable development.
 “a process of change”
THE FIVE INTERRELATED COMPONENTS:
1. ECONOMIC wealth creation and improved conditions of material life.
2. SOCIAL well-being in nutrition, health, education and housing.
3. POLITICAL pointing to such values as human rights, political freedom, security, participation and
some form of self-determination.
4. CULTURAL cultures confer identity and self-worth to people.
5. ECOLOGICAL primary conserving the life-giving natural resources and processes on which all
progress depends.
INTEGRATIVE PLANNING IN PRACTICE: PROTECTED AREA PLANNING IN CANADA (Aulavik
National Park)
 Market demand
 A situation analysis: Information review; Community and stakeholder consultations
 Commercial trends review and legislative and policy review environment
 Developing a shared vision: Tourism and visitor, community residents, regional stakeholders.
 Alternative visitor use seniors: Area’s commercial realities and regulatory environment.
INFORMING AND INVOLVING STTAKEHOLDERS
 Steps to involve stakeholders in planning and management
MANAGING PROTECTED AREAS AND ECOTOURISM DESTINATIONS
Protected area management challenges
 Meeting two goals: enjoyment and protection of parks and need to manage supply, demand and
impact.
PROBLEMS RELATED TO HUMAN USE AND IMPACT
MANAGEMENT APPROACHES AND TOOLS AVAILABLE
MANAGEMENT APPROACHES
 Managing the supply, the demand, the resource and the impacts, rather than carrying capacity:
1. Managing the supply of tourism or visitor opportunities, increasing the space available or the
time available to accommodate more use.
2. Managing the demand for visitation, restrictions of length of stay, or total numbers, or type of
use.
3. Managing the resource capabilities to handle use through hardening the site or specific
locations or developing facilities.
4. Managing the impact by reducing the negative impact of use, modifying the type of use or
dispersing or concentrating use.
MANAGEMENT TOOLS
 Visitor management is an important aspect of any form of tourism in sensitive areas.
MARKETING AS A DEMAND MANAGEMENT TOOL
 Impact of third-party media on tourism demand
COMMAND AND CONTROL APPROACHES
 Collaborations
 Eco-adventure
 Maintaining natural heritage integrity
PROTECTED AREA MANAGER'S SPHERES OF INFLUENCE OF TOURISM ACTIVITIES
1. DIRECT: a direct affect on such operators and ensure there is minimal negative impact.
2. INDIRECT: indirect impact on the activities of others may require or prohibit private sector
tourism operators from doing certain activities.
3. INFLUENCING: have no control over others.