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Topic 8: Recreation Management Framework - Coggle Diagram
Topic 8: Recreation Management Framework
The recreation management framework has seven key principles:
Minimise risks to water quality
ensure environmental sustainabilitu
Diversity in the range of recreation activities, locations and settings
Ensure all use is consistent with seqwater's land management practices
Facilitate sustainable recreation
Engage with external regulating agencies
Meet financial management outcomes
Visitor Management Frameworks
1979 – ROS (Recreation Opportunity Spectrum)
combination of physical, biological, social, and managerial condition that give value to a place
Thus, an opportunity includes qualities provided by nature (vegetation, landscape, topography, scenery), qualities associated with recreational use (levels and types of use), and conditions provided by management (developments, roads, regulations).
By combining variations of these qualities and conditions, management can provide a variety of opportunities for recreationists
ROS also valuable as it allows visitor management to
be integrated with other forms of planning.
THE WEAKNESS OF ROS:
if agreement is lacking regarding opportunity classess and their characteristics then decisions and implementation cannot be carried out
1985 - LAC (Limits of Acceptable Change)
1985 – VAMP (Visitor Activity Management Process)
1990 – VIM (Visitor Impact Management)
1993 – VERP (Visitor Experience Resource Protection)
1996 – TOMM (Tourism Optimisation Management Model)
WHERE ARE THEY RECREATING? (ROS)
Primitive - solite, unmodified, little management
Semi- Primitive Non- Motorized - trails, primitive roads
Semi- Primitive Motorized - low concentrati on of users, minimal controls minor vegetation alteration
Roaded Natural - easy acces
Rural- social aspect important
Urban- intensive on site controls, high user interaction
THE STRENGTHS OF ROS??
Vital for eco-system management and the level of human modifications that suitable for landscape.
It is also the best approach to determine the balancing between ecology and tourists’ attractions.
Giving the exact guidelines to management on recreationists’ interest in choosing the recreation activities.
To achieve the balancing between recreation’s use and natural ecology welfare at that area.
To give the guidelines on associate facilities provided as well as the suitable parks classes offered at any areas.
Limits to acceptable change (LAC)
Defined desired resources condition
take actions to maintain or achieve those conditions
LAC FRAMEWORK
Identify area concerns & issues
defined & describe opportuninity classes
select indicators of resources & social conditions
inventory resources & social conditions
specify standards for resources & social indicators
identify alternative opportunity class allocations
identify actions for each alternative
evaluation & selections of an alternative
VISITOR IMPACT MANAGEMENT (VIM)
VIM takes the focus away from the physical environment and places it on the major agent of change in many settings the tourist. It represents a more focused management tool for resort management ; ie, its primary concern is the interactional experience between guest and the environment they have come to enjoy; subsumed within the need to keep those environment healthy and attractive to produce a sustainable development future.
This process reveals the fluid nature of tourists one not alike or looking for the same experience. That all environment are not alike and will vary in their resistance and stress levels according to season and tourists priorities as well as volume
FIVE KEY INTERRELATIONSHIP PRINCIPLES
There is no single predictable response between the use of a setting and the visitor or host experience
Most impacts do not exhibit a direct linear relationship to user density
There is an inherent variation in the levels of tolerance between different settings
Some types of activity cause different impacts due to varying intensities of use and visitors characteristics
Tourists impacts are influenced by any number of site specific and seasonal variables
TWO TYPES OF VIM TECHNIQUES
hard line
It involve physical and or financial restriction on the access to site and cities.
The closure of a site or attraction that is suffering from the excess pressure of visitors is one of the most extreme measures that can be taken and is a disaster from a management perspective because of lost revenue and reputation.
Accessibility is a key factor contributing to excessive use, its control is often the most visible form of hard line action in the case of entry fees and restricted viewing times for most desirable attraction.
soft line
It include planning and marketing designed to modify behavior and choice
In term of planning, lesser known activities and attractions can be developed and promoted to spread the visitor load.
This often involves a marketing component to convince visitor to try these ‘new’ option in high season or to visit the whole site out of high season.