A presentation mad during a World Parks Congress event "Welcome Visitors: Making Tourism Work for Protected Areas and Sustainable Development: Part 1 – Critical Success Factors" that took place on 17 November 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Supported by the IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group and UNDP

1. Welcome visitors!
Making tourism work
for protected areas &
sustainable development
Part 1: Critical Success Factors
Facilitator: Dr Anna Spenceley, Chair
IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected
Areas Specialist Group
annaspenceley@gmail.com
Monday 17 November 2014

2. Who we are
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

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

4. What we do
n
PARKS
The I
t er no ational J urnafl o
Protected Areas o and Cnser vation
Developing capacity for a lpr otected p anet
Issue 18.2: December 2012
Develop knowledge
Build capacity
Network

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

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

7. Critical success factors
• Best practice case studies
• Critical success factors of sustainable tourism in PAs
ensure that tourism to protected areas does not erode the
resource base upon which it depends

8. Critical success factors
Tourism on the Fast Track: Challenges for Sustainability and Development in the World
Natural Heritage Site Phong Nha - Ke Bang, Central Vietnam - Anna Huebner
Case Evidence from the Field: Protected Areas and Sustainable Tourism - Ross Sinclair
Mediterranean Experience of Eco-Tourism - Luca Santarossa
Understanding how visitation to protected areas can contribute to addressing
development challenges: A case for incorporating visitor spending effects into
development trade-off decisions - Liisa Kajala
The Contribution Of 'Eco-resorts' To Regional Conservation Objectives – Mark Borg
Estrategia Comunitaria de Turismo de Naturaleza en el Parque Nacional Natural Chingaza
- Mateo Barco Largo
The international standardization process: Tourist services provided by natural protected
areas - Clelia Lopez
Plenary discussion, including Q&A