Promoting persuasian in protected areas:

Source: CRC Sustainable Tourism
"The purpose of Promoting Persuasion in Protected Areas is to help protected area managers make better decisions and to achieve greater success in their use of communication to influence visitor behaviour. Many managers, and some tourism operators, see this as an important part of their job. While others can learn and apply the approach outlined in this manual, and while the methods can be adapted for influencing many different kinds of behaviours, this manual is written for protected area managers who want to influence the behaviour of people who visit their sites."

Manual for assessing walking tracks in protected areas

Source: CRC Sustainable Tourism
"In this manual three methods (including indicators, protocols and proformas) are presented for surveying and monitoring walking tracks based on a desktop evaluation of methods used overseas and in Australia and field testing of methods by researchers (Hill & Pickering). Two of the methods are census based techniques (condition class assessment and track problem assessment) and the third method is point sampling which is more appropriate for detailed measurement such as those used in temporal monitoring."

Good practice user-pays systems for protected areas

Source: CRC Sustainable Tourism
"This project seeks to develop guidelines for assessing the viability of new and existing user-pays systems for protected areas in Australia."

An integrated framework for developing ecological indicators of visitor use of protected areas

Source: CRC Sustainable Tourism
"The aim of this report was to evaluate existing information related to the development of impact indicators and how these might be applied to the management of visitor impacts in protected areas. The objective was to develop an integrated framework that would deliver a range of indicators appropriate at a variety of park management levels."

Ecologically sustainable visitor use of Australia's world heritage areas

Source: CRC Sustainable Tourism
"This report reviews the approaches management agencies have taken to research and assess ecologically sustainable visitor use of Australia's World Heritage Areas. This report is one of a series in the STCRC project to develop a framework, guidelines and tools to enhance assessment, evaluation and reporting of visitor use in protected areas."

Enhancing visitor experience through interpretation

Source: CRC Sustainable Tourism
"This report provides the key findings from a series of surveys carried out in three national parks: Hasting Caves State Reserve in Tasmania, Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales and the Grampians-Gariwerd National Park in Western Victoria. The researchers collected data about visitor profiles and visitor satisfaction with interpretation services and variables."

NSW Taskforce on Tourism and National Parks: final report

Source: NSW Dept. of Environment and Climate Change
"The New South Wales Government has accepted the recommendations of a report focusing on ways to enhance tourism in the state’s national parks, marine parks and reserves. The report, by the State Government’s 10 member Tourism and National Parks Taskforce, recommends sustainable tourism is included as a clear objective in national parks legislation. Other key recommendations contained in the report include: allocating increased funding for marketing and promotion campaigns to attract visitors to parks and reserves; and focussing on iconic experiences in key natural areas close to Sydney and within three hours drive of major airports in Newcastle, the Gold Coast, Ballina, Coffs Harbour and Canberra."

Valuing tourism spend arising from visition to Queensland National Parks

Source: CRC Sustainable Tourism
"Queensland is one of the world’s most naturally diverse tourism destinations. Its five World Heritage areas and multitude of national parks and forests are integral to attracting visitors to this state. While visitation to Queensland protected areas is high, the state-wide economic contribution of related visitor spending was effectively unknown prior to this study being undertaken. The first phase of The Valuing Tourism Spend in Queensland National Parks Study was designed to provide an assessment of tourist spending associated with national parks at the regional level. The results of this study indicate that a best estimate of visitor spending associated with national parks (NPs) is approximately $4.43 billion per annum with $749 million per annum in national park-generated spending. As such, study results emphasise the key importance of NPs to the Queensland tourism sector, and the Queensland economy more generally, in that national park-associated spending represents approximately 28% of total annual tourism expenditure in the state with national park-generated spending representing approximately 4.7% of the total."

Roadside signage manual

Source: Sustainable Tourism CRC
"To date, there have been very few studies either in Australia or overseas that have explored the impact of tourist information on driving tourists’ travel planning and navigational practices. The case study upon which this report is based was designed to address these shortcomings by examining the travel preferences, opinions and experiences of visitors driving parts or the entirety of the Great Southern Touring Route in Victoria."

The carbon footprint of Australian toursim

Source: CRC Sustainable Tourism
"Faced with increasing concern about climate change and the spill-over effects of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, various industries have been called upon to measure their carbon footprints – usually reported as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in CO2 equivalents. Tourism is not reported as a separate sector in Australia’s national accounts. Deriving a carbon footprint for the tourism sector is therefore a particularly complex task because of the inter-sectoral nature of tourism. This report refers to estimates of all emissions which are included in the Kyoto protocol. In this way, comparisons can be made with other Australian industry emission estimates. However, any consideration of tourism emissions would normally also include international aviation activity for international visitors to Australia, which are not included in the Kyoto protocol. In addition to estimating the direct effects of carbon emissions, the indirect effects are also estimated to provide a comprehensive analysis of the sector. Comparisons with other industry’s emissions are made using direct effects only."