Locating Great White Shark Tourism in Gansbaai, South Africa Within the Global Shark Tourism Economy

McKay, Tracey

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29377-2_16

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“…The area encompasses a range of tourism niches. First, is coastal and marine tourism, specifically whale watching, nature cruises, scuba diving, kayaking and beach tourism (McKay, 2020). Second is adventure tourism which intersects with some coastal tourism activities but also includes zip lining canopy tours, hiking and rock climbing, quad biking, hang gliding and kite surfing (Rogerson and Rogerson, 2019).…”

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Tourism Business Responses to South Africa’s Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency

Rogerson¹

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled tourism businesses to rapidly adjust operations in newer and more resilient ways as firms have to change priorities and respond to challenges, including of shifts in consumer demand. Extant research on tourism business responses and adaptations to COVID-19 highlights the significance of organizational resilience and ability of businesses to respond to uncertainty. Using a qualitative approach this paper investigates tourism business responses in South Africa, seemingly the country worst hit on the African continent by the COVID-19 crisis. The research analyses tourism business responses occurring in one of South Africa’s tourism-dependent areas and thus most exposed to the radical effects of COVID-19. Key findings are of the self-reliant character of the community of tourism enterprises in and around Overstrand cluster in the Western Cape. Product diversification, reductions of prices, reduced staffing, changed marketing, greater inter-enterprise cooperation are several of the most significant business adjustments undertaken. With the negative financial impacts of COVID19 on local tourism enterprises exacerbated by South African government measures for alcohol bans and beach closures there is evidence of a disconnect and lack of trust between the area’s local businesses and national government.

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Tourism Business Responses to South Africa’s Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency

Rogerson¹

2021

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“…Bronze whaler images were collected throughout spring–summer season (September to December) of 2019–2021. The field trips were conducted, weather permitting, with local cage‐diving operators who shared knowledge on the seasonal movements of the sharks in the area and who positioned the vessel near the area where the sharks naturally occur (McKay, 2020).…”

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“…White shark images were also collected within in the Dyer Island Nature Reserve Complex found between Dyer Island and Geyser Rock (Figure 1). permitting, with local cage-diving operators who shared knowledge on the seasonal movements of the sharks in the area and who positioned the vessel near the area where the sharks naturally occur (McKay, 2020).…”

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The effectiveness of the semi‐automated Identifin software to accurately fast‐track dorsal fin photographic identifications of sharks

Maroen,

Rowlinson,

Matthee

et al. 2024

Aquatic Conservation

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For some marine species, photo‐identification (photo‐ID) data can be used to generate population estimates critical for conservation efforts. For the white shark (Carcharadon carcharias), different photo‐ID methods have been proposed: (1) the traditional manual matching method based on non‐organized databases, (2) the notches code method based on organized databases and (3) the semi‐automatic software, Identifin. However, the effectiveness of these different methods and the applicability to other shark species have not been adequately explored. Eleven inexperienced and two experienced investigators used the three different photo‐ID methods to record the accuracy and time taken to identify individual white sharks from photo‐ID images. Both the traditional and notches code methods allowed for the accurate matching of individuals to the databases provided. For all investigators, the notches code method used significantly less time (14 min ± 0.14 min) than the traditional matching method (19 min ± 1.34 min). The semi‐automated method, Identifin, further shortened the identification time to 2 min (± 0.10 min) and provided a significantly higher matching accuracy (96% correct matches) compared with traditional manual matching (78% correct matches) and the notches code method (70% correct matches). The use of Identifin was tested to identify bronze whaler sharks (Carcharhinus brachyurus), a species with finer notches patterns when compared with white sharks. Identifin showed less efficiency in matching individual photographs to the database, but when very‐high‐quality (VHQ) photographs were available, matching improved substantially. Identifin software shows great potential in assisting researchers to accurately identify individual sharks in large databases, and this can contribute significantly to the conservation of shark species. The software and automated process need to be adapted to be functional on a variety of different shark species, but it proves to be an effective tool in managing large photo‐ID databases.

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“…In this regard it has been estimated that in the pre-COVID-19 period beach and ocean based marine tourism alone contributed an estimated R 13.5 billion annually in South Africa (Driver et al, 2012). Marine and coastal tourism activities include beach leisure, whale and dolphin watching excursions, shark cage diving, SCUBA diving and recreational fishing (Giddy and Rogerson, 2018;McKay, 2020;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2020a). In discussing the potential impacts of climate change on South Africa"s coastal terrestrial areas it is important to note the projected issues associated with sea-level rise and increases in extreme events such as larger and more frequent storm surges with dangers for coastal flooding (Department of Tourism, 2011a; Dube et al, 2020Dube et al, , 2021.…”

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Climate Change Risks and Tourism in South Africa: Projections and Policy

Pandy¹,

Rogerson²

2021

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The challenge of climate change and tourism is an evolving international knowledge domain. South Africa is one of the most vulnerable countries with respect to projected climate change. For the national tourism economy climate change is a significant topic of concern. The objectives in this article are to present climate change projections and potential impacts for South Africa’s tourism economy and to critically analyse the policy landscape concerning national government’s response to climate change as a whole and more specifically in relation to the tourism sector. It is shown key tourism assets of South Africa are at risk from the advance of climate change. The analysis discloses that the South African government has supported international efforts and obligations to address the challenge of climate change, commitments which have influenced policy development regarding tourism. Nevertheless, policy development towards climate change and tourism has not progressed greatly over the past decade. Arguably, this is an outcome of the overwhelming concentration in recent government tourism policy in South Africa towards issues of inclusivity and transformation.

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Locating Great White Shark Tourism in Gansbaai, South Africa Within the Global Shark Tourism Economy

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Tourism Business Responses to South Africa’s Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency

Tourism Business Responses to South Africa’s Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency

The effectiveness of the semi‐automated Identifin software to accurately fast‐track dorsal fin photographic identifications of sharks

Climate Change Risks and Tourism in South Africa: Projections and Policy

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