The Myths of Visitor Capacity

Based upon the full management prescription (not simply the capacity), a manager selects actions from a suite of strategies such as education, tourism marketing, facility design, maintenance, fees, scheduling, registrations, law enforcement, signage, monitoring, site restoration, as well as limits o...

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Published in:Parks & recreation (Arlington, Va.) Va.), 2007-09, Vol.42 (9), p.109
Main Author: Haas, Glenn E
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Capacity
Court Litigation
Data collection
Decision making
Evaluative Thinking
Facility Guidelines
Law enforcement
Litigation
Managers
Marketing
Mythology
National parks
Oil exploration
State laws
Tourism
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Summary:Based upon the full management prescription (not simply the capacity), a manager selects actions from a suite of strategies such as education, tourism marketing, facility design, maintenance, fees, scheduling, registrations, law enforcement, signage, monitoring, site restoration, as well as limits on the number of people. 3. Whereas recreation mythology reasons that the only purpose for a visitor capacity is to limit people, there are nine important purposes of creating a visitor capacity: (1) as a trigger for budgetary resources and other management actions, (2) as a measurement of the supply of recreation opportunities in an area, (3) as a public safety and resource risk-management tool, (4) to provide predictability for businesses, concessionaires and local communities, (5) for tourism-marketing and visitor trip planning, (6) for hindsight analysis in order to learn from the administrative record, (7) for recreation demand and supply analysis, (8) for allocation decisions between concessionaires and general public, and (9) to help implement a visitor limitation program.
ISSN:0031-2215