Quantitative SWOT analysis for prioritizing ecotourism-planning decisions in protected areas: Igneada case

Demir, Sara; Esbah, Hayriye; Akgün, Aliye Ahu

doi:10.1080/13504509.2015.1136709

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“…In protected areas with tourism, it is employed to support planning [25] and strategic management for recreation and conservation, as a combination of zoning with Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS), TCC and LAC. In addition to these methods, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis is also applied for analysing environment and support decision process [26], [27] for seasonal activities, tourist zoning, carrying capacity and other related strategies.…”

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Sustainable Tourism Development in Parque Nacional Lagunas De Montebello, Mexico

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Piña

2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The objective was to regulate the tourist and recreational activities that are developed within the Lagunas de Montebello National Park (PNLM, its acronym in Spanish) with the implementation of tourism carrying capacity (TCC) and limits of acceptable change (LAC). The method applied was Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) with an interview script to key informants, a field checklist with georeferencing, two workshops with local actors, analysis of satellite images and application of formulas for TCC. Results include the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis of the PNLM, the tourist capacity of sites for simultaneous users. Indicators for LAC were determined. Findings will assist public institutions to design better policies and strategies linked to tourism and sustainability.

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Sustainable Tourism Development in Parque Nacional Lagunas De Montebello, Mexico

Pavón

Piña

2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…The AHP is a process that allows inclusion of the preferences and intuitions in the decision making process [68][69][70]. This method, which was developed by Saaty in the 1970s, is based on the hierarchic order in the analysis of multi-criteria complex problems [71].…”

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Integrated Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods for the Sustainability of Historical–Cultural Structures on the Trabzon Coastline

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Demir

2017

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Unsustainable urban growth has put pressure on urban coastal areas and historical-cultural structures. As such, the important role of coastline sustainability has been revealed, and planners must protect historical-cultural coast characteristics in order to increase the quality of life of citizens. For this reason, this present study investigated the effects of existing coast characteristics and historical-cultural structure changes in recreation and tourism with respect to the Trabzon coastline in Turkey. Through literature and site survey, these effects were classified using specific coastal criteria which increase and decrease coastal use, and these were grouped by factor analysis. For the main criteria, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method was used, and for sub-criteria, the Elimination and Choice Expressing Reality (ELECTRE) method was employed, combining multi-criteria decision-making methods to generate a priority ranking for all criteria. Consequently, "socialization", "city promotion" and "service quality" were revealed as the most effective criteria with respect to coastal use. The methods and the findings may significantly contribute to sustainable tourism planning for other urban coastal areas.

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“…Successful ecotourism planning is a function of establishing sound goals and criteria (Demir, Esbah, & Akgün, 2016). Mainstream explanations find some problems in ecotourism that are mostly related with individual knowledge and behavior of some tourists, travel agents, tour operators and local people.…”

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Critical Views of Mainstream Approaches on Ecotourism

Erdogan¹

2017

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Mainstream approaches ecotourism focus on the main idea that the tourism activities employ the kinds of sustainability that are economically viable, ecologically maintainable and socially equitable. Hence, ecotourism is considered a special type of sustainable tourism that aims at responsible use of natural, cultural and historical resources, and it simultaneously contributes to the local and national development and the protection of natural areas. This paper presents critical assessment of the mainstream explanations about the nature of ecotourism. To do so, the critical views in the related literature are collected, reviewed and presented. Their criticisms include the central assumptions and explanations provided by the mainstream scholars about ecotourism, such as definition, goals and outcomes of ecotourism, business practices, environmental sustainability, ethics and tourism policy. It is clear that critical approaches come up with explanations that are diametrically different and, thus reject the validity of the mainstream approaches.

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Quantitative SWOT analysis for prioritizing ecotourism-planning decisions in protected areas: Igneada case

Cited by 42 publications

References 29 publications

Sustainable Tourism Development in Parque Nacional Lagunas De Montebello, Mexico

Sustainable Tourism Development in Parque Nacional Lagunas De Montebello, Mexico

Integrated Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods for the Sustainability of Historical–Cultural Structures on the Trabzon Coastline

Critical Views of Mainstream Approaches on Ecotourism

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