Tourism concessions in National Parks: neo-liberal governance experiments for a Conservation Economy in New Zealand

Dinica, Valentina

doi:10.1080/09669582.2015.1115512

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“…However, in order to succeed, such actions require at least a basic understanding of factors responsible for any population changes. This is especially vital in times of limited resources for conservation [ 11 , 12 ].…”

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Marathon penguins – Reasons and consequences of long-range dispersal in Fiordland penguins / Tawaki during the pre-moult period

Mattern

Pütz²,

Borboroglu

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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Migratory species often roam vast distances bringing them into contact with diverse conditions and threats that could play significant roles in their population dynamics. This is especially true if long-range travels occur within crucial stages of a species’ annual life-cycle. Crested penguins, for example, usually disperse over several hundreds of kilometres after completing the energetically demanding breeding season and in preparation for the costly annual moult. A basic understanding of crested penguins’ pre-moult dispersal is therefore paramount in order to be able to assess factors affecting individual survival. The Fiordland penguin, or Tawaki, the only crested penguin species breeding on the New Zealand mainland, is currently one of the least studied and rarest penguin species in the world. We successfully satellite tracked the pre-moult dispersal of 17 adult Tawaki from a single colony located in the species’ northern breeding distribution. Over the course of 8–10 weeks the penguins travelled up to 2,500 km away from their breeding colony, covering total swimming distances of up to 6,800 km. During outbound travels all penguins headed south-west within a well-defined corridor before branching out towards two general trip destinations. Birds leaving in late November travelled towards the Subtropical Front some 800 km south of Tasmania, whereas penguins that left in December headed further towards the subantarctic front. Using K-select analysis we examined the influence of oceanographic factors on the penguins’ dispersal. Water depth, surface current velocity and sea level anomalies had the greatest influence on penguin movements at the subantarctic Front, while sea surface temperature and chlorophyll a concentration were key for birds travelling to the subtropical front. We discuss our findings in the light of anthropogenic activities (or lack thereof) in the regions visited by the penguins as well as the potential consequences of Tawaki pre-moult dispersal for the species’ breeding distribution on the New Zealand mainland.

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Marathon penguins – Reasons and consequences of long-range dispersal in Fiordland penguins / Tawaki during the pre-moult period

Mattern

Pütz²,

Borboroglu

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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“…For example, Poprawe (2015) analysed the effect of corruption on tourism and concluded that it had a detrimental impact on the tourism sector. Micro-level governance within the tourism industry can also matter for its sustainable development, as observed by Dinca (2017) in the management of New Zealand's national parks.…”

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Business environment effect on business visitor arrivals to New Zealand

Gani

Clemes

2020

Current Issues in Tourism

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This research investigates the impact that New Zealand's business environment has on its international business visitor arrivals. Within a gravity modelling framework, data for twenty-four main visitor origin countries are used for empirical analysis for the period 2004-2013. The core contribution of our research is that our empirical results provide strong evidence that the interaction of internet diffusion, commercial bank presence and shipping services with international trade are statistically significant variables. New Zealand's business infrastructure also correlates with foreign business visitors. We conclude that more open trade policies, combined with an improved business environment, provide the added benefits of attracting more international business visitors offering a subsequent, positive impact on the New Zealand tourism industry.

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“…In many cases, revenues from user fees and tourism operators are vital funding sources (Leask, Fyall, and Garrod, 2013). Entrance fees (Reynisdottir, Song, and Agrusa, 2008) and concessions (Wyman, Barborak, Inamdar, and Stein, 2011;Dinica, 2017) are central instruments in several cases.…”

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“…In countries such as New Zealand, concessions and licences have become one of the primary means of engaging the private sector in the management of destination and visitors (Dinica, 2017): A business will have a concession agreement (such as a lease, licence, permit or easement) to operate their business within-or in relation to a tourist destination, or a special attraction within a destination. The contracts stipulate the key terms and conditions, such as duration, type of operation, environmental conditions and fees that the business must operate under.…”

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“…Concession arrangements are mostly discussed in relation to how they contribute to make visits more attractive, and how they increase the funds for managing protected areas (Wyman et al, 2011;Dinica, 2017). Concessions can nonetheless also involve increased public spending in terms of additional staff costs, operational services and damages caused by the activities concessionaires organize and sell (Dinica, 2017). In general, there are management costs associated with charging visitors and businesses for access and use of land areas, e.g., in terms of providing infrastructure, collecting fees and paying for damage caused by visitors and tourism operators.…”

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Recently, the Nordic countries have experienced rapid increases in the influx of tourists. Unprecedented growth in the numbers of visitors to some nature attractions and destinations has resulted in crowding, environmental damage, costly rescue operations and overload on common goods such as public infrastructure. The most immediate answer is the further development of infrastructures, such as improved transport solutions and extended onsite services. These kinds of measures are often designed within a short-term perspective and may prove to create further sustainability challenges in a long-term perspective. Achieving a sustainable development of tourism implies complex processes that require policy and planning to take environmental, social and economic dimensions into consideration within a long-term perspective. Responding to the dramatic increase in visitation to certain vulnerable nature areas and sites, regulation of the volume of visitors by the use economic instruments has been proposed. In the Nordic countries some of these instruments, such as entrance fees, are challenging due to both legal and political principles of public rights of access. While revenues from concessions and licence permits given to tour operators can contribute to management budgets, these instruments can also serve to control the scale of visitation. Due to the legal and administrative restrictions on commercial operations of activities in nature areas, especially in protected areas, as well as the public rights of access, it is uncertain how attractive concession and licence permits will be for tourism companies in the Nordic countries. To cover some of the expenses caused by the increasing influx of visitors (e.g. overloading the existing infrastructure), tourist tax and an increased VAT on typical tourist products (accommodation, guiding and tour services, etc.) have been proposed in both Norway and Iceland. Currently, this seems to lack sufficient political support. An alternative solution is destination management organizations (DMO), which is based on collaboration between different private and public stakeholders in funding and operating the management of attractions and destinations. Adaptive management approaches based on the inclusion of a wide range of stakeholders in the planning processes have been implemented in the management of nature areas in many parts of the Nordic countries (see e.g. Kaltenborn, Mehmetoglu, and Gundersen, 2017; Andersen, Gundersen, Strand, Wold, and Vistad, 2014). With respect to the zoning of activities and the channelling of traffic, adaptive management appears as a relatively efficient way of achieving sustainable solutions at much-visited nature attraction sites. In addition, adaptive management strategies often involve socalled soft management strategies associated with information, knowledge transmission, guiding, etc. Since guides can play a significant role in influencing visitors' behaviour, recruiting guides with good skills in programmes visitors find attractive can be an efficient ...

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Tourism concessions in National Parks: neo-liberal governance experiments for a Conservation Economy in New Zealand

Cited by 34 publications

References 9 publications

Marathon penguins – Reasons and consequences of long-range dispersal in Fiordland penguins / Tawaki during the pre-moult period

Marathon penguins – Reasons and consequences of long-range dispersal in Fiordland penguins / Tawaki during the pre-moult period

Business environment effect on business visitor arrivals to New Zealand

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