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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"visitor management"”.
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The Use of visitor management techniques to protect a fragile environment.
… to be managed effectively if there was a lack of management focus on the visitors. Visitor management plays a vital role in a tourism destination in terms of increasing visitors' experience and level of enjoyment, as well as modifying their on-site behaviour to be more appropriate. Through a …
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Wilderness visitor managment and Antarctic tourism
… thesis investigates the question of what kind of management is needed to cope with the increasing numbers of tourists who are visiting wilderness areas in Antarctica. Previous research has addressed Antarctic tourism largely as a policy issue. This research looks at Antarctic tourism in the …
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Minimizing Visitor Impacts to Protected Lands: An Examination of Site Management and Visitor Education Methods
… two studies that explore different methods of visitor management in recreation. The management strategies studied here are both relatively indirect approaches intended to minimize the environmental and social impacts that visitors cause in protected areas. The Annapolis Rocks study focuses on …
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Destination Resource Management: Integrating Ecotourism in Costa Rica
… in the planning of eco-tourism. For improved visitor management techniques for both human and natural resources and for destinations which facilitate 'power to' rather than 'power over' host communities.
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An Adaptive Assessment of Visitor Impacts to Protected Areas
As an applied approach to recreation management, adaptive management allows researchers and protected area managers to cooperatively improve management policies, and achieve the dual mandate to protect natural resources and provide high-quality recreational experiences. Through an evaluation of the …
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Balancing outdoor tourism and recreation development and environmental conservation after major infrastructure improvements: dualling the A9 through Cairngorms National Park.
This thesis explores the changes of visitor patterns resulting from a major infrastructure<br/>development in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park (CNP), and in turn, the potential impacts<br/>on sensitive conservation areas. The A9, Scotland’s longest road and transport corridor<br/>between the …
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Visitors: their choice of activities and the importance of on-site interpretation in enhancing their overall experience at a World Heritage Site, the Jurassic Coast, UK.
… at both natural and cultural sites as a soft visitor management tool where typically it might aim to develop an understanding and appreciation of the site as well as encouraging the appropriate on-site behaviour from the visitors. This study is primarily concerned with the on-site experience …
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Modelling visitor experience: a case study from World Heritage Sites, Thailand.
The subject of this Ph.D. Thesis is Modelling Visitor Experience: A Case Study from World Heritage Sites, Thailand. The research is conducted in three historical parks in Thailand by using an inductive approach of Grounded Theory. This aims to propose a model of visitor experience of heritage. It …
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Monitoring and management of tourist landing sites in the Maritime Antarctic
… the industry's own recommendations for site management are uniform for all sites. Expedition leaders, who ultimately decide which sites are visited, vary widely in awareness of differences in site vulnerability, but are left to develop their own visitor management strategies at individual …
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The Effectiveness of Social Media Communications for Visitor Behaviour Management in Ontario's Parks and Protected Areas
… protected areas agencies to mitigate negative visitor behaviour issues as much as possible. Communications in their various formats (signage, in-person, etc.) have long been utilized by park agencies to share safety, regulatory, and interpretive information with park visitors. While the study …