Moving towards a sustainable cetacean-based tourism industry – A case study from Mozambique

Rocha, Diana; Drakeford, Ben; Marley, Sarah A.; Potts, Jonathan; Hale, Michelle S.; Gullan, Angie

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104048

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“…A previous survey of tourists visiting the PPMR indicated that respondents place high importance on education and interpretation as components of whale-watching (Rocha et al 2020). However, both tourists and operators indicated that education and interpretation programmes are lacking in this area, and that incorporating them into guide-training courses would be beneficial.…”

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The benefits of guide training for sustainable cetacean-based tourism in developing countries, case study – Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, Mozambique

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Tour guides represent the forefront of responsible Cetacean-Based Tourism (CBT), client satisfaction and product development. How an operation and specifically the guide facilitates the activity can shape tourists’ attitudes and change their behaviour towards the environment, turning consumers into stewards of the environment. This study examined the validity and success of a guide training workshop for CBT operators in the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (PPMR), Mozambique. A questionnaire survey was implemented pre- and post-training to measure the operators’ knowledge of aspects related to CBT and attitudes towards sustainable tourism and local regulations. Results suggest that the training workshop improved guide knowledge, which in some cases showed significant variations according to demographic variables namely, gender, education, and years of experience in the current job position. Mandatory guide training is recommended and should include not only product knowledge but also content on visitors’ expectations, interpretive guiding, and experience brokering. Presential training, refresher sessions, and English lessons are also advised. If these recommendations are put in place, then there is the potential for sustainable CBT to flourish in Mozambique, bringing much needed environmental and economic sustainability to this developing country.

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“…In addition, with the unquestionable growth that marine tourism generates in destination economies, it also causes a range of environmental impacts that can lead to the deterioration of coastal and marine ecosystems (Bires and Raj 2020 ; Hawkins and Roberts 1994 ; Kurniawan et al 2016 ; Miller and Auyong 1991 ; Miller and Ditton 1986 ; Pascoe et al 2014 ; Romeril 1988 ; Wong 1993 ). The challenge of tourism in coastal territories is to find, through strategies and management mechanisms, a balanced adjustment between economic, environmental and sociocultural dimensions (Budowski 1976 ; Hall 2011 ; Jones 2019 ; Liu et al 2020 ; Merli et al 2019 ; Orams 1999 ; Papageorgiou 2016 ) in tourism sustainability (Bramwell and Lane 2011 ; Gkoumas 2019 ; Grilli et al 2021 ; Pham 2020 ; Rocha et al 2020 ).…”

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The involvement of marine tourism companies in CSR: the case of the island of Tenerife

González-Morales

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González

2021

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Corporate Social Responsibility is a voluntary strategy by companies, which integrates a set of actions that contribute to sustainable development. This study analyzes the degree of involvement of marine tourism companies in human resource management, adaptation to change, environmental management, local community development and collaboration with public and private agents. These areas configure companies’ Corporate Social Responsibility strategies. Information was collected from marine tourism companies on the island of Tenerife using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. A binary logistic regression analysis was applied. The results indicate that, in general, marine tourism companies are socio-environmentally responsible. Environmental aspects and adaptation to change through innovation have the greatest weight in these companies’ Corporate Social Responsibility strategies. Actions for local community development and collaboration with private agents are also important. However, human resource management influences negatively since marine tourism is a highly regulated sector in this regard. Thus, actions are mandatory and not voluntary, affecting all companies equally whether they have high levels of Corporate Social Responsibility implementation or not. Regarding relations with public authorities, the results indicate that improvement is urgently required, given the low participation of marine tourism companies in policy making.

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“…However, in the face of the continuous development of leisure diving tourism, there is a lack of a relatively systematic grading evaluation system to score its development status. erefore, it is urgent to formulate relevant grading evaluation standards to guide its steady and healthy development [2,3].…”

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Study on Evaluation of Leisure Diving Tourism Based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Method Optimized Bat Algorithm

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2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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China’s leisure diving tourism has made gratifying achievements in the past years. It is necessary to evaluate the leisure diving tourism’s development level, and then the disadvantages of the leisure diving tourism can be found and the effective measures can be taken to develop the leisure diving tourism in China. A fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model based on the bat algorithm is proposed to solve the shortcomings of the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, which lacks a theoretical basis and completely depends on experience. Firstly, the basic conception of leisure diving tourism is discussed. Also, the main affecting factors of leisure diving tourism are analyzed. The evaluation model of leisure diving tourism developing level is constructed based on the fuzzy comprehensive method. The weight of the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is optimized by the bat algorithm to realize the optimal selection of weight. The fuzzy evaluation matrix is used to construct the judgment matrix to determine the weight of each evaluation index, and the bat algorithm is used to adaptively select the weight of the judgment matrix. Finally, three diving clubs are used as research objects to carry out evaluation analysis The results show that the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method can effectively obtain the developing level of leisure diving tourism.

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Moving towards a sustainable cetacean-based tourism industry – A case study from Mozambique

Cited by 10 publications

References 68 publications

The benefits of guide training for sustainable cetacean-based tourism in developing countries, case study – Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, Mozambique

The benefits of guide training for sustainable cetacean-based tourism in developing countries, case study – Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve, Mozambique

The involvement of marine tourism companies in CSR: the case of the island of Tenerife

Study on Evaluation of Leisure Diving Tourism Based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Method Optimized Bat Algorithm

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