Management of Conservation in Spaces of Recreational Use

Autor:	Gabriela Torre, Matilde Encabo, Ana María Boschi de Bergallo
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Nothofagus biology business.industry Environmental resource management Nothofagus dombeyi Recreational use biology.organism_classification Geography Ecotourism Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Sustainability Environmental impact assessment business Recreation Tourism
Zdroj:	International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration. 1:43-51
ISSN:	1525-6499 1525-6480
DOI:	10.1300/j149v01n03_03
Popis:	Summary The tourist area (TA) Lago Gutierrez is located in the reservation area of National Nahuel Huapi Park, Patagonia, Argentina. Its ecological landscape is composed of mountains with glacier lakes, cascades, and forests of Nothofagus. These attractions facilitate activities such as trekking, bathing, hiking, picnics, and camping among others. This TA, has an intense tourist and recreational use, which creates disorder, and so measures have been taken by management in order to recuperate different sectors of varying degrees of ecological impacts. For example, the transfer of a camping site located in a stand of coihues trees (Nothofagus dombeyi). The objectives proposed were to identify tourist and recreational impacts and the perceptions of visitors concerning these impacts, in order to propose management measures in Gutierrez TA. Using the LAC (Limits of acceptable change, Stankey et al., 1985) methodology, theauthorstookintoaccount physical, biological, and social variables: coihue renewals, bare g...
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