Theorizing and contextualizing protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods linkages

Stone, Moren Tibabo; Stone, Lesego S.; Nyaupane, Gyan P.

doi:10.1080/09669582.2021.2003371

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“…A growing body of research conceptualizes tourism as a complex adaptive system [21,38,39] or calls for systematic thinking in the conceptualization of the relationships among tourism, PAs, and the local communities [40,41]. Stone et al (2021) believed that without clear identification of interacting variables, any study on PAs and tourism will reveal an incomplete and potentially confusing picture, as the complex interactions between system components will not be apparent [42]. Schianetz and Kavanagh (2008) also pointed out that systematic thinking is critical for assessing the sustainability of natural tourist destinations located in eco-environmentally fragile areas [25].…”

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Sustainability Assessment for the Protected Area Tourism System from the Perspective of Ecological-Economic-Social Coordinated Development

Zhang

Zhong

et al. 2023

Forests

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Tourism is a significant way for the public to enjoy the cultural ecosystem services provided by protected areas (PAs). However, with PAs being expected to make much wider ecological, social and economic contributions to sustainability and human well-being, PA managers face challenges in coordinating tourism with other goals, such as ecological conservation and local community development. To address this challenge, we developed a sustainability assessment framework that considers the PA, local community, and tourism as a complex system comprising social, economic, and ecological subsystems from the perspective of subsystem relationships. The coupling coordination degree model and the obstacle degree model were applied to assess sustainability of the tourism system in Qinghai Lake Nature Reserve of China. The assessment results indicate that the sustainability index fluctuated between 2010 and 2019, but generally exhibited an upward trend, undergoing three stages and reaching the stage in 2019 where ecological sustainability took the lead. At this stage, the coupling coordination degree between the economy and society subsystems was at its lowest, and the economic subsystem faced the highest obstacle degree. The study demonstrates that involving scholars and administrators in the index selection process and considering both index information and management concerns when determining index weight makes the coupling coordination degree model more suitable for PA tourism systems. The assessment method developed in this study effectively reflects the temporal evolution of PA tourism system sustainability and provides valuable implications for coordinated ecological-economic-social management by analyzing obstacle factors.

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Sustainability Assessment for the Protected Area Tourism System from the Perspective of Ecological-Economic-Social Coordinated Development

Zhang

Zhong

et al. 2023

Forests

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“…On the one hand, nature-based resources are an essential input for the tourism industry; on the other hand, tourism businesses consume natural resources with the aim of economic gain. Nature-based resources that would not create added value and would remain passive, in fact, generate income through tourism activities [92,[96][97][98][99]. Many of these tourist destinations will be doomed to disappear in an environment where nature-based resources are constantly exploited and damaged.…”

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What Tourists Want, a Sustainable Paradise

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Agrusa

Ronzoni

et al. 2022

Tourism and Hospitality

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The increasing complexity of tourism and sustainability offers opportunities and challenges among diverse stakeholder perspectives. The need for sustainable and nature-based approaches exists throughout the growing body of literature from among a number of dimensions and measures. One of the overarching goals of the paper is to examine whether tourists will choose a destination or hotel that is actively working to improve the environment while examining how Hawaii’s tourism is nature-based as well as other measures of sustainability while enjoying a slice of paradise in the Hawaiian Islands. This study explores tourism sustainability concerns in Hawaii, such as the influence of the tourist sector on the environment and will address if Hawaii should be recognized as a sustainable tourism destination. A survey instrument was developed where 454 respondents participated. According to the findings of this research, tourists visiting Hawaii support environmentally sustainable tourism practices leading towards a more sustainable tourist destination.

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Community Benefits and Challenges of Wildlife Tourism in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in South Africa

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Lekgau

2024

Geographies of Tourism and Global Change

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Theorizing and contextualizing protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods linkages

Cited by 11 publications

References 90 publications

Sustainability Assessment for the Protected Area Tourism System from the Perspective of Ecological-Economic-Social Coordinated Development

Sustainability Assessment for the Protected Area Tourism System from the Perspective of Ecological-Economic-Social Coordinated Development

What Tourists Want, a Sustainable Paradise

Community Benefits and Challenges of Wildlife Tourism in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in South Africa

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