Economic Impacts of Tourism in Protected Areas Workshop

Presentations from the International Workshop on Economic Impacts of Tourism in Protected Areas. 21-25 September, 2015. Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

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Summary
Presentations the Economic Impacts of Tourism in Protected Areas workshop help at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Wilhemlshaven, Germany. Presentations include:

• Introduction and workshop goals (H. Job, pp. 1-14)
• Conservation and community support through tourism in protected areas (A. Spenceley, pp. 15-36)
• History and constraints of park visitor monitoring (P.F.J. Eagles, pp. 37-64)
• United states case study (C.C. Thomas & L. Koontz, pp. 65-79)
• Economic impacts of tourism in protected areas: Kenyan experiences (J.K. Muriithi, pp. 80-91)
• Visitor spending effects of protected areas in Finland (J. Erkkonen, pp. 92-119)
• Economic impacts of tourism in Nepalese protected areas (N. Baral, pp. 120-132)
• Marine protected areas case: Australia (S. Becken, pp. 133-148)
• Evaluation of the economic impacts of tourism in German protected areas (H. Job & M. Woltering, pp. 149-164)
• Tourism in Indian protected areas: Overview and challenges (M.V. Nair, pp. 165-197)
• High-quality nature experiences as precondition for PA tourism: Certifying interpretive trails in Austrian PAs (M. Jungmeier, pp. 198-215)
• Towards to evaluation of economic impacts of tourism in protected areas in Russia (E. Shvarts, pp. 216-235)
• Tourism and protected areas in New Zealand: A summary of visitor monitoring approaches, current successes and future challenges (S. Espiner, pp. 236-256)
• Towards global monitoring standards for tourism in protected areas (O. Hillel, pp. 257-272)
• Expectations and requirements for a global monitoring standard from the WCMC's perspective (M. Deguignet, pp. 273-290)
• A global monitoring standard from the park manager's perspective (M. Harbrow, pp. 291-323)

Keywords
global, monitoring, visitor use, standards, economic, impacts, Kenya, Finland, Nepal, Australia, Germany, India, Austria, Russia, New Zealand, United States