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Last chance tourism at the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Westland Tai Poutini National Park: Stakeholder perspective

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Last chance tourism at the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers, Westland Tai Poutini National Park: Stakeholder perspective

Wilson, Judith ; Stewart, Emma ; Espiner, Stephen R. ; Purdie, H.
Type: Monograph
Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/10182/6509
Originally published: 2014-09-30 as LEaP Research Report No. 34 by Lincoln University and available at http://hdl.handle.net/10182/6509
Rights: ©LEaP, Lincoln University, New Zealand 2014. This information may be copied or reproduced electronically and distributed to others without restriction, provided LEaP, Lincoln University is acknowledged as the source of information. Under no circumstances may a charge be made for this information without the express permission of LEaP, Lincoln University, New Zealand.
Keywords: climate change; Franz Josef; Fox Glaciers; Westland Tai Poutini National Park; tourism businesses; resource managers
Fields of Research: 1506 Tourism

Abstract:

Understanding the impacts of climate change on tourism destinations requires knowledge about both physical resources and the characteristics of tourism at that destination; stakeholders involved in tourism facilitation and management not only connect the tourist to the physical resource, but are also an integral part of the destination in their own right. This report summarisesthe findings from 13 interviews with stakeholders associated with tourism at the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. These interviews traversed themes including: the importance of the glaciers as visitor attractions; perceptions and experiences of change in the glaciers over time; business and management perspectives of glacier change; and stakeholder perspectives on visitor experience at the glaciers. The research represents the first part of a study investigating ‘last chance tourism’ and was completed during August-September 2013. While the data reported here speaks directly to a number of key objectives of the research project, the material also provided valuable baseline information from which the visitor survey undertaken in the second part of the project was developed (for a full survey report see Wilson et al., 2014).

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