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The implications of climate change for glacier recreation and tourism at Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand
(Lincoln University, 2017-11-29)
Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park is an iconic alpine destination in New Zealand, attracting thousands of visitors annually with its wide array of recreational opportunities. In recent years, however, the many glaciers within ...
Lost in transitions : staging global tourism in local small towns
(Lincoln University, 2011)
Small towns are a vital part of the travel circuit in New Zealand, and small town travel space is a unique situation where global visitors meet the people and lived spaces of the local everyday. Connecting small towns to ...
Sanctity on stage : investigating the social impacts of tourism to, and tourists at, sacred places
(Lincoln University, 2011)
Increasingly, tourists and tourism companies are incorporating sacred places into their travel plans and iteneraries. While pilgrimage, in a religious sense, has occurred for centuries, many people travel to sacred sites ...
Using community based partnerships to enhance the adaptive capacity of coastal fishing communities: a Cambodian case-study
(Lincoln University. Department of Environmental Management., 2012-08)
The purpose of this research is to investigate whether community based partnerships can
assist in enhancing the adaptive capacity of coastal fishing communities in the face of change
and future uncertainty. The fishing ...
Revisiting Boracay Island, the Philippines: an integrated coastal zone management perspective
(Lincoln University, 2011)
Tourism is one of the important industries in the world. Tourism can bring positive and negative economic, socio-cultural and environmental consequences at the destination level. Small island tourism destinations are often ...
Pelagic birdlife in relation to predator control and tourism: a case study of penguins in Banks Peninsula New Zealand
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Environment Society and Design, 2014-12-18)
This report aims to examine and identify the outcomes of the Wildside project on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of South Island of New Zealand. Penguins in Flea Bay are the focus of this study and the objective ...
Exploring links between tourism and agriculture in sustainable development: A case study of Kagbeni VDC, Nepal
(Lincoln University, 2012)
Tourism is widely recognized as one of the world’s largest industries (Torres, 2003, p. 546). With approximately one-third of all trekking costs spent on food, creating linkages between tourism and agriculture holds great ...
Tourism and Community Empowerment: Critical Insights from Indonesia
(Lincoln University, 2018)
Empowerment is a way of enhancing an individual’s or a community’s capacity to make choices and transform those choices into desired actions leading to desired outcomes. In a tourism context, scholars have noted that ...
Transport infrastructure development, tourism and livelihood strategies: An analysis of isolated communities of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
(Lincoln University, 2019)
Geographically isolated communities around the world are dependent upon the limited assets in local subsistence economies to generate livelihoods. Locally available resources shape and give identity to unique cultural ...
Adventure tourism accidents and the New Zealand media: An analysis and discussion on implications for future research and the tourism sector : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Science at Lincoln University
(Lincoln University, 2019)
Adventure tourism is a vital part of the New Zealand tourism industry, and has great importance internationally. Due to the risks inherent in adventure activities, accidents will always occur in some quantity during these ...