Can the Conservation Attitudes and Behavioural Intentions of Tourists to Tropical Forest be Improved through Biodiversity Interpretation? A Case Study from Australia

In recent years there has been a proliferation of projects aiming to integrate human development needs with conservation objectives, and to establish mutually beneficial relationships for the management of natural resources between rural communities and the state. This paper presents data from a case study of human-wildlife interactions in villages along the northern boundary of the Selous Game Reserve in south-east Tanzania. Since 1989, this area has been the site of a project working to promote community wildlife management (CWM). Questionnaire survey data were used to examine villagers' conservation attitudes towards wildlife, the Game Reserve, and the activities of the CWM project and state wildlife management authority. Despite local support for the conservation of wildlife, many respondents were either unaware or held negative views of the activities of the wildlife management institutions. Logistic regression analyses show that while access to game meat from the CWM project has had a positive influence on perceptions of wildlife benefits and awareness of the project's activities, it has had no significant effect on local perceptions of the Game Reserve and the activities of the state wildlife management authority. The factors underlying the observed pattern of conservation attitudes were identified as the inequitable distribution of benefits from the CWM project, and the limited nature of community participation in wildlife management. The importance of institutional issues for the future progress of participatory approaches to conservation with development is emphasized.

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Deforestation and carbon loss estimation at tropical forest using multispectral remote sensing: Case study of Besul Tambahan Permanent Forest Reserve

2015 International Conference on Space Science and Communication (IconSpace) ◽

10.1109/iconspace.2015.7283797 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Zulkiflee Abd Latif ◽

Hud Mohamad Zaqwan ◽

Mohamed Saufi ◽

Nor Aizam Adnan ◽

Hamdan Omar

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Tropical Forest ◽

Loss Estimation ◽

Carbon Loss ◽

Forest Reserve ◽

Multispectral Remote Sensing

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Benefits of tropical forest management under the new climate change agreement—a case study in Cambodia

Environmental Science & Policy ◽

10.1016/j.envsci.2010.04.007 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 384-392 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Nophea Sasaki ◽

Atsushi Yoshimoto

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Forest Management ◽

Tropical Forest ◽

Tropical Forest Management

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Assessing the Causes of Tropical Forest Degradation Using Landsat Time Series: A Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon

10.1109/igarss47720.2021.9554272 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Julie Betbeder ◽

Damien Arvor ◽

Lilian Blanc ◽

Guillaume Cornu ◽

Clement Bourgoin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Time Series ◽

Tropical Forest ◽

Brazilian Amazon ◽

Forest Degradation

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Motivating Tourism

International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management ◽

10.4018/ijabim.2015040101 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 1-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Neeta Baporikar

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Customer Satisfaction ◽

Best Practices ◽

Research Paper ◽

Core Values ◽

Personality Characteristics ◽

Behavioural Intentions ◽

The Core

Attempts have been made for long to classify tourists by activities, interests and opinions (AIOs), by values and even, typology of the tourist based on personality characteristics. Pearce (1993) observes, tourist motivation is in fact “discretionary, episodic, future oriented, dynamic, socially influenced, and evolving” with “attitudes, behavioural intentions, values, preferences, beliefs, needs, and goals thereby presenting spaghetti of overlapping and interlocking concepts”. This research paper is a case study of how ‘Club Mahindra Holidays' flagship brand of Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd., (MHRIL) started in 1996, has been successful in motivating tourism in general and in India in particular. It also attempts to understand how tourism is based on motivating theories and draw lessons for evolving successful tourism strategies based on the core values such as Reliability, Trust and Customer Satisfaction. The case study will enable tourism organizations to adopt best practices, strategize well for success and contribute to economic development in this era of globalization.

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