• Presentation made at the Sustainable Tourism in Small Island Developing States conference, 23-24 November 2017, Seychelles. A partnership of the Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Foundation, IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group, University of Seychelles, Paris Tourism Sorbonne (IREST), and Global Sustainable Tourism Council.
1. Keynote: Sustainable Tourism in
Protected Areas
Dr Anna Spenceley
Chair, IUCN Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist
Group
Board member, Global Sustainable Tourism Council
Editorial board, Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Honorary Fellow, University of Brighton
Senior Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
annaspenceley@gmail.com
23 November 2017
2. We envision a future where tourism associated with
protected areas has a positive impact on
biodiversity, and where tourism is environmentally,
socially and economically sustainable
3. What is the TAPAS Group?
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
(WCPA) Specialist Group
Voluntary technical network
Specialists on tourism and protected areas and
areas of particular importance to biodiversity
4. What we do –
develop knowledge
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t er n ational Jo urnal of
Protected Areas and Co nser vation
Issue 18.2: December 2012
Developing capacity for apr otected pl anet
Review Copy
5 November 2014
Tourism and Visitor Management
in Protected Areas
Guidelines for sustainability
Edited by Yu Fai Leung, Anna Spenceley, Glen Hvenegaard and Ralf Buckley,
in collaboration with 54 contributors, Craig Groves, Series Editor
Developing Capacity for a Protected Planet
Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. XX
Released Sept
2017 in English,
French & Spanish
Publications including Best Practice Guidelines, Journal special editions, & technical reports
9. Thanks to IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group
technical committee & abstract reviewers:
Acknowledgements
Alexa Mossaz
Barbara Engels
Bruce Downie
Charles Besancon
Issa Torres
Kathleen Fitzgerald
Kelly Bricker
Lloyd Gardner
Marissa Altmann
Oscar Ouma
Peter Nizette
Seema Bhatt
Sue Snyman
10. Today
• Session 2: Evaluation of financial and economic benefits of tourism in
protected areas
• Session 3: Destination management and the application of standards
and certification tools for protected areas
• Session 4: Impacts on biodiversity of protected area tourism
Tomorrow
• Session 5: Tourism concessions and partnerships
• Session 6: Community-benefits and socio-economic linkages from
protected areas
Protected area themes
11. Session 2: Evaluation of financial and
economic benefits of tourism in
protected areas
Kajala et al, 2007
12. Session 2: Evaluation of financial and
economic benefits of tourism in PAs
https://www.nps.gov/subj
ects/socialscience/vse.ht
m
13. Session 3: Destination management
and the application of standards and
certification tools for protected areas
14. Session 3: Destination management
and the application of standards and
certification tools for protected areas
http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/visit-the-
reef/choose-a-high-standard-operator
15. Session 4: Impacts on biodiversity
of protected area tourism
Reduce, re-use, recycle waste
Indigenous plants
Wildlife interactions
18. Flow diagram: to concession or not?
Spenceley, Snyman and Eagles 2017
19. Session 6: Community-benefits
and socio-economic linkages from
protected areas
Community-based small business
Joint venture between community and private sector operator
Spenceley, Rylance, Nanabahay and van der Watt, 2016
22. Today
• Session 2: Evaluation of financial and economic benefits of tourism in
protected areas
• Session 3: Destination management and the application of standards
and certification tools for protected areas
• Session 4: Impacts on biodiversity of protected area tourism
Tomorrow
• Session 5: Tourism concessions and partnerships
• Session 6: Community-benefits and socio-economic linkages from
protected areas
Protected area themes