Recognising, Planning For and Managing Limits to Tourism Development in Natural Areas

Warren, J & Pihema, W , Taylor, N, Gough, J, Blaschke, P & Baily, M

Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment, Waikato University

2003

Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment (CRESA)

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A discussion of Research Project: www.srknowledge.org.nz/research-completed/management-of-tourism-and/

This paper discusses work in progress towards the development of an integrated approach to planning and management of natural areas for tourism and related activities. An integrated approach needs to take into account ecological, economic, social and cultural (including Maori) considerations at different spatial scales – from site specific up to the regional scale – and for different types of natural areas in land and marine environments. It is apparent that a successful management approach will also need to recognise the finite capacity for some activities at some sites, as well as the potentially competing requirements of cultural and amenity values, tourism/recreation activities and other economic activities. The approach will be designed for application in multi-stakeholder contexts and will be sufficiently generic to be applicable to a range of different environmental and activity settings.

To aid the development of an integrated approach we are developing a kete of practical management tools5, with information about their individual and collective usefulness (including consideration of their cultural appropriateness) and their strengths and weaknesses for particular sorts of natural areas, development contexts and management problems, and social, political and cultural contexts. The tools listed in Table 1 are drawn from several disciplines, including economics, risk assessment, landscape architecture, ecology, tourism planning, regional and resource planning, community development, public participation, leisure and recreation management, law, and impact assessment.

Keywords:

Parks, Tourism, Resource management, Zoning, Cultural values, Monitoring, Conservation, tangata whenua, Cultural importance, Tourism development, Regulation, Tourism management

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National

Outdoor Recreation, Recreation

Tourists

Outdoors

Coast and beach, Commercial, Mountains, National Parks, Non-organised, Organised, Parks - remote/backcountry, Parks - rural, Parks - urban

Barriers, Benefits, Capability, Governance, Impacts - economic, Impacts - environmental, Impacts- social, Management, Participation, Planning, Tourism

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