• Presentation made at the Sustainable Tourism in Small Island Developing States conference, 23-24 November 2017, Seychelles. A partnership of the Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Foundation, IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group, University of Seychelles, Paris Tourism Sorbonne (IREST), and Global Sustainable Tourism Council.

1. Keynote: Sustainable Tourism in
Protected Areas
Dr Anna Spenceley
Chair, IUCN Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist
Group
Board member, Global Sustainable Tourism Council
Editorial board, Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Honorary Fellow, University of Brighton
Senior Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
annaspenceley@gmail.com
23 November 2017

2. 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. What is the 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

4. What we do –
develop knowledge
PARKSThe I
n
t er n ational Jo urnal of
Protected Areas and Co nser vation
Issue 18.2: December 2012
Developing capacity for apr otected pl anet
Review Copy
5 November 2014
Tourism and Visitor Management
in Protected Areas
Guidelines for sustainability
Edited by Yu Fai Leung, Anna Spenceley, Glen Hvenegaard and Ralf Buckley,
in collaboration with 54 contributors, Craig Groves, Series Editor
Developing Capacity for a Protected Planet
Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. XX
Released Sept
2017 in English,
French & Spanish
Publications including Best Practice Guidelines, Journal special editions, & technical reports

5. - build capacity
iSimangaliso concessions training, 2017
Maputo concessions training, 2017
Webinars
iSimangaliso concessions training, 2017 Maputo concessions training, 2017

6. - network
IUCN conferences (WCC, WPC)
‘Speed Dating’
Regional conferences
Social media

7. Our people
Strategy and fundraising: Anna Spenceley (Chair)
Communities & Heritage: Sue Snyman (Vice chair)
Biodiversity: Yu-Fai Leung
Economics: Barbara Engels
Knowledge development: Megan Epler Wood
Capacity building: Thiago Souza
Membership: Sergey Shirokiy
Communication: Jeremy Sampson
IUCN focal point: Giulia Carbone

8. Find out more, or join!
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/

9. Thanks to IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group
technical committee & abstract reviewers:
Acknowledgements
Alexa Mossaz
Barbara Engels
Bruce Downie
Charles Besancon
Issa Torres
Kathleen Fitzgerald
Kelly Bricker
Lloyd Gardner
Marissa Altmann
Oscar Ouma
Peter Nizette
Seema Bhatt
Sue Snyman

10. Today
• Session 2: Evaluation of financial and economic benefits of tourism in
protected areas
• Session 3: Destination management and the application of standards
and certification tools for protected areas
• Session 4: Impacts on biodiversity of protected area tourism
Tomorrow
• Session 5: Tourism concessions and partnerships
• Session 6: Community-benefits and socio-economic linkages from
protected areas
Protected area themes

11. Session 2: Evaluation of financial and
economic benefits of tourism in
protected areas
Kajala et al, 2007

12. Session 2: Evaluation of financial and
economic benefits of tourism in PAs
https://www.nps.gov/subj
ects/socialscience/vse.ht
m

13. Session 3: Destination management
and the application of standards and
certification tools for protected areas

14. Session 3: Destination management
and the application of standards and
certification tools for protected areas
http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/visit-the-
reef/choose-a-high-standard-operator

15. Session 4: Impacts on biodiversity
of protected area tourism
Reduce, re-use, recycle waste
Indigenous plants
Wildlife interactions

16. Session 4: Impacts on biodiversity
of protected area tourism
Indigenous plants
© Justin Hoffman
BBC World Service

17. Session 5: Tourism concessions
and partnerships

18. Flow diagram: to concession or not?
Spenceley, Snyman and Eagles 2017

19. Session 6: Community-benefits
and socio-economic linkages from
protected areas
Community-based small business
Joint venture between community and private sector operator
Spenceley, Rylance, Nanabahay and van der Watt, 2016

20. Ashley C. (2006)

22. Today
• Session 2: Evaluation of financial and economic benefits of tourism in
protected areas
• Session 3: Destination management and the application of standards
and certification tools for protected areas
• Session 4: Impacts on biodiversity of protected area tourism
Tomorrow
• Session 5: Tourism concessions and partnerships
• Session 6: Community-benefits and socio-economic linkages from
protected areas
Protected area themes

23. Thank you!
Dr Anna Spenceley
Email: annaspenceley@gmail.com
Phone: +248 2564 559
Skype: annaspenceley
Twitter: @anna_spenceley
Blog: annaspenceley.wordpress.com
Website: www.anna.spenceley.co.uk
Spenceley & Rylance, 2016