Dive Tourism, Sustainable Tourism and Social Responsibility: A Growing Agenda

Townsend, Claudia

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-045357-6.50010-3

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“…Therefore, most education takes place in formal settings, and includes a captive audience, while interpretation usually takes place in informal settings, and includes a voluntary, non-captive audience (Hammitt, 1984). Townsend (2008) added that both aim to enhance the visitor experience, while at the same time reduce damage to the visited site. Cater and Cater (2007) observed that in a tourism context, education almost always takes place in a less formalised way.…”

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Education on marine mammal tours – But what do tourists want to learn?

Lück

2015

Ocean & Coastal Management

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Education on marine mammal tours – But what do tourists want to learn?

Lück

2015

Ocean & Coastal Management

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“…Dimmock (2004) found that managers typically had to balance (often competing) roles, and the industry's structure and the rising demand for mass participation in diving resulted in intense price competition between firms. Furthermore, Townsend (2008) observed that the high capital requirements for specialist equipment (diving gear, air tanks, compressors, dive boats) was highly restrictive for dive businesses. This is significant because dive operations have predominantly been small and medium-sized businesses with often more limited access to capital than larger firms.…”

Section: Dive Tourism: the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Dive tourism and the entrepreneurial process in the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia.

Jeyacheya¹,

Hampton²

2016

Sustainable Island Tourism: Competitiveness and Quality of Life

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This chapter explores the question of how the dive tourism entrepreneurial process in the Perhentian islands transforms (or not) as the destination moves to a strategically competitive one. It takes a holistic approach by considering the personal (characteristics, traits and socio-economic factors), environmental (business opportunities, resources and threats) and sociological factors (cultural norms, social networks, family) to understand how they interact with each other, with each stage of the process, and what the practical implications are.

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“…SCUBA divers are often drawn to areas of high conservation value (Barker & Roberts, 2007), this being due to the perceived biodiversity and the opportunity to encounter species not commonly found elsewhere. With the increase in accessibility and popularity of SCUBA diving, what was once considered a benign low-impact activity, has now been shown to have significant flow-on effects to reef systems globally (Davis, Harriott, MacNamara, Roberts, & Austin, 1995;Townsend, 2008).…”

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Low-impact diver training in management of SCUBA diver impacts

Hammerton

2016

Journal of Ecotourism

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SCUBA divers make a range of accidental and intentional contacts with the benthos during each reef visit. Reefs with high levels of diving tourism can be subjected to major impacts. Whilst strategies currently exist to reduce diver contacts, including pre-dive briefing and carrying-capacity approaches, significant impacts still occur. This study tested the effectiveness of Low-Impact Diver (LID) training on 183 certified SCUBA divers. The aim was to assess if specific training could provide divers with the skill base to avoid, or significantly reduce, contact with the reef, regardless of certification or experience level. Students completed a single pre-training dive, in which a set of tasks was completed to the best of their current ability and which could be used as a baseline for comparison with a similar post-course completion dive. Regardless of an individual diver's certification, or experience level, LID training was shown to significantly reduce contact with the benthos during subsequent dives. This study demonstrated a clear deficiency in current entry-level diver training standards and shows that divers from all experience levels are capable of learning and applying LID techniques. This study presents evidence that LID techniques provide a viable ecotourism management strategy to reduce diver impacts globally. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Dive Tourism, Sustainable Tourism and Social Responsibility: A Growing Agenda

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Education on marine mammal tours – But what do tourists want to learn?

Education on marine mammal tours – But what do tourists want to learn?

Dive tourism and the entrepreneurial process in the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia.

Low-impact diver training in management of SCUBA diver impacts

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