Visitors

Visitors to parks and protected areas impact at many levels: political, economic, social and ecological. To ensure effective park management for increasing visitor numbers, good quality global data on visitor use is necessary. This manual describes terms, approaches and techniques for gathering information about public use of parks and protected areas.

Parks and People describes fifteen years of research at Maine's Acadia National Park, conducted by Robert E. Manning, his colleagues, and students. The book is organized into three parts. Part I addresses indicators and standards of quality for park resources and the visitor experience. Part II describes efforts to monitor indicator variables. Part III outlines and assesses management actions designed to maintain standards of quality.

Natural Area Tourism provides a comprehensive description of tourism in natural areas allowing readers to understand the scope of, complexities arising from, and possibilities of undertaking successful tourism developments in natural areas. Furthermore, the second edition contains an overview of recent developments, such as mountain biking, adventure activities in protected areas and geotourism.

Areas of high ecological value, i.e. parks and protected areas as well as urban parks, experience ever increasing pressures from recreation and tourism. In addition, new technologies make remote areas increasingly accessible. This leads to extensive ecological impacts, and to increasing conflicts between user groups.

Nationalparke vorfolgen in erster Linie Naturschutzziele. Traditionell spielen sie darüber hinaus eine Rolle als Destinationen des Naturtourismus. Vom Tourismus gehen vielfältige Wirkungen aus, welche sich im ökonomische Bereich zumindest in Teilen eindeutig monetär quantifizieren lassen. Der vorliegende Band versucht daher zunächst anhand von fünf Fallbeispielen, den Stellenwert des Tourismus in Nationalparken Deutschlands für die jeweilige regionale Wirtschaft zu bestimmen.