A presentation made at the IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group's Strategy and Networking event at the World Parks Congress, in Sydney 2014.

1. TAPAS updates:
* World Heritage
* Healthy Parks Healthy People
Robyn Bushell
Institute for Culture & Society, University of Western Sydney
IUCN- WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group

2. World Heritage
• Apologies Peter de Brine UNESCO, WHC
• Report on WH & ST strategy (Mogao 2009) adopted
by WHC 2012
• People Protecting Places project: ‘How To‘ tools
developed by James Redbank
• workshop Strengthening South-South collaboration
on World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism
Hongcun village (WHS) May 2014
• tested in Nordic/Baltic region
• Testing in 4 African sites – Victoria Falls Dec + others
next year
• See http://unescost.cc.demo.faelix.net/

3. portal to be launched publicly in Jan 2015
series of 10 ‘how to’ guides

4. • Seeking feedback and case studies for the Portal
p.debrine@unesco.org
• UNESCO and UNWTO hosting a conference on
culture and tourism
Feb 2015 Siem Reap (Angkor WHA) Cambodia
http://www.tourismandculture.org/

5. Healthy Parks Healthy People
• seeks to encourage the connections between a healthy environment and a
healthy society
• encourages those from the health, parks and tourism sectors to work
together to provide better outcomes for all
• concept initiated by The UK Countryside Agency (now Natural England) pilot
research into the health(and financial) benefits of green exercise
• In 2000 Parks Victoria, Australian created the Healthy Parks Healthy People
(HPHP) brand
– commissioned a literature review of existing published work
– first HPHP congress in 2010
– park agencies worldwide have also developed similar programs
– HPHP has been adopted as an IUCN program
Stream 3 @ WPC : developing guidelines and after TAPAS input
8.30 Tues 18th