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Suto Midterm
Suto Midterm
Cultural Heritage
LECTURE
• Marine Heritage
Learning Objectives:
Types of environmental impacts:
Benefits of Sustainability
• Reclamation and improvement
to sites already adversely impacted
• Cost savings
• Physical damage to landmarks
• Positive reputation
and sensitive sites
• Awareness raising
• Introduction of exotic and/or
• Return on investment
feral species into the area
• Pollution
purchasing
• Loss of habitats for threatened
• Waste minimization and and other domestic fauna
management
• Energy efficiency
Negative Environmental Impacts
• Water conservation
• Emissions reduction
Negative environmental impacts:
• Biodiversity conservation
Environmental Impacts
• Natural resources
• Pollution
tourism:
• Air
• Water
• Water resources
• Noise
• Local resources
Pollution
• Experiential travel operators
• Interpretative eco-tourism
• Air emissions
guiding and activities operators
• Noise
• Adventure travel operators
• Solid Waste
• Business related operators
• Littering
• Releases of sewage
Char act er ist ics of appr opr iat e
• Chemicals
tourism operators
• Architectural or visual
pollution
• Encouraging community
engagement
Physical Impacts
• Gaining agreement from the
community
• Beaches
• Obtaining necessary
• Forests
authorizations and permissions
• Dunes
• Designing strategies and
• Coral reefs
procedures that will balance
• Lakes
economic viability with cultural
• Riversides
appropriateness and
• Mountain tops and slopes
environmental preservation
• Accommodation operators
• Enhancing the overall
• Attractions operators
community
• Entertainment operators
community initiative
• Government agencies and
• Operating in an illegal manner, regulators
ecology of a region
• Specialists
the community
environmental experts
Whilst the impact, tourism
• Allowing visitors to damage the impacts and changes a community
environment
will differ depending on the nature
and size of tourism operations, there
Consult stakeholders
will be changes that take place, be
them collectively as a community or
Importance of stakeholders
for individual persons.
stakeholders that:
Social returns
• What techniques can be used?
culture
• Technological solutions
people
• Barriers and constructions to
• Patterns of behavior
restrict or limit access to areas and
• Quality of life that inhabitants sites
or local people
• Staged authenticity
• Employment prospects
• Setting limits of acceptable
• Business opportunities and change (LAC)
strategic alliances
• Zoning of threatened areas
• Infrastructure development
• Involvement of local
• Population growth
community in identifying changed
situations
• Consideration of restricting
What are examples of:
access
• Negative impacts/returns?
• Bans on entry of nominated
items
Managing tourism
• Bans on nominated activities
tourism impacts
Environmental management
There are some basic planning
techniques of environmental
sustainability that can be Importance of environmental
implemented as a framework for management planning
environmental practices.
place?
disposal
• Collect primary data
• Environmental protection
region is understood
• Determining the relative
balance between costs and
Relationship between tourism and disadvantages relating to tourism
the environment
operations
environment
Learning Objectives:
• Establish targets
Sustainability topics
genuinely sustainable
• Dealing with traffic congestion
• Developing SMART objectives
and damage to roads and other
• Developing policies and infrastructure
procedures
• Waste management, recycling
• Allocating tasks, resources and of materials and a reduction in
responsibilities
energy and resource consumption
• Resources conservation
• Executive summary
• Recycling
• Table of contents
• Background
• Sustainability Objectives
• Impact of the
• Environment Impact recommendations
Identification
• Proposed implementation and
• Sustainability Policies and requirements
Strategies
• Standards and benchmarks to
• Responsibilities and Reporting be achieved with recommended
Structure
targets
• Training
• Timeline for implementation,
• Review audit and monitoring monitoring and review
compliance
• Summary and conclusion
• Continuous Improvement
• Establish targets
• Identifying implementation
methods
• Environmentally and
• Identify timelines
ecologically-friendly policies and
• Identify resources
procedures
reporting
• Gain agreement
One of the key tasks for any
• Developing sustainability tourism operator is to establish or
covenants / compacts
follow policies and procedures to
help minimize negative impacts of
tourism and improve ecological • Comply with relevant
sustainability.
environmental legislation,
agreement and standards at local,
• What is a policy?
national and international levels
• What is a procedure?
Examples of sustainability
Steps in developing environmental procedures
sustainability policies
conservation groups
• What tasks are associated with
• Develop codes of practice
developing procedures?
procedures
• Induction
• Meetings
guidelines
• Intranet
practices
communities
• Negotiating trade-offs