The Limits of Acceptable Change Planning System: Second in this series of posts about LAC

Posted in LORTON SCRIBBLINGS, Tourism Planning, Tourism and Protected Areas, Tourism and communities The four major components of the LAC planning system and the nine distinct steps of the planning process. The Limits of Acceptable Change planning system was developed in the USA over a period of years in the early 1980s to address the problems of managing recreational use in national protected areas. As originally described by Stankey and others in 1985, the LAC planning system included four...
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Marine ecotourism and the need for best-practice planning

Posted in LORTON SCRIBBLINGS, Marine Ecotourism, Sustainable Tourism, Tourism and the Environment The term ‘marine ecotourism’ means different things to different people. At the heart of almost all definitions of marine ecotourism, however, is the aim of appreciation and enjoyment of the natural marine environment in all of its many forms, along with any associated cultural features. Simply put, ecotourism is tourism that is based on enabling people to experience the natural environment...
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