This presentation was made at a IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group side event at the World Parks Congress, Sydney, on 13 November 2014

1. Tourism as a
nature-based
solution
Facilitator: Dr Anna Spenceley, Chair
IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected
Areas Specialist Group
annaspenceley@gmail.com
Thursday 13 November 2014

2. Who we are: TAPAS Group
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
(WCPA) Specialist Group
Voluntary technical network
Specialists on tourism and protected areas and
areas of particular importance to biodiversity
We envision a future where tourism associated with protected areas has a
positive impact on biodiversity, and where tourism is environmentally, socially
and economically sustainable

3. Our structure
Anna Spenceley (Chair)
Knowledge development
•Glen Hvenegaard, Ralf Buckley
Communities
•Susan Snyman
(Vice Chair)
Capacity Building
•Steve McCool
Heritage
•Robyn Bushell
Communications
•Ron Mader
Membership
•Elena Nikolaeva
IUCN Secretariat
•Giulia Carbone

4. What we do
PARKS The I
n
t er n ational Jo urnal of
Protected Areas and Co nser vation
Issue 18.2: December 2012
Developing capacity for a pr otected pl anet
Develop knowledge
Build capacity
Network

5. New working group on communities
Online
review and
commentWebinars on key themes
What we are doing & planning

6. Membership application: http://tinyurl.com/tapasmembership
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tourism-and-
Protected-Areas-Specialist-Group/122961127797095
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4735342
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/planeta/tapasgroup
Wiki: http://planeta.wikispaces.com/tapas
Google+:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/117973343043881234019/posts
IUCN Website:
http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_c
apacity2/gpap_wcpacap/gpap_tourism/
Links Twitter: ♯WPCTourism

7. • Globally distributed best practice examples
• Critical success factors
ensure that tourism in protected areas is sustainable
Tourism as a nature-based
solution

8. 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP)
– Marcio Favilla L. de Paula (UNWTO)
Private sector contributions to conservation in protected areas – Susan Snyman (TAPAS
Group, Wilderness Safaris)
Tourism as a nature-based solution in Russian protected areas – Elena Nikolaeva (TAPAS
Group)
Tourism for health – Robyn Bushell (TAPAS Group, University of Western Sydney)
The Makuleke’s joint venture partnerships in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier
Conservation Area – Lamson Maluleke (Makuleke Community)
Tourism’s contribution to resilient ecosystems through the Convention on Biological
Diversity – David Steuerman (CBD)
Plenary Q&A
Tourism and protected area events at the WPC and new publications – Robyn Bushell
and Susan Snyman (TAPAS Group)
Tourism solutions