Wall, Rachel Elizabeth2025-07-092025-07-091993https://hdl.handle.net/10182/19192The following report gives details to the history and fascination many people have with Pitcairn Island. Its beginnings from the mutineers of the Bounty have sparked an interest in people around the world about this tiny island and its people. Being a British dependency the people receive subsidies for almost everything they have; the rest of their income form supplying stamps and curios to passing ships and interested people. With their development aid coming to an end the islanders need to find a source of income to sustain their life on Pitcairn. Tourism as a by-product to building an airstrip on the island has been suggested as a solution. This study shows that although the islanders do not want tourism to encroach on their home and way of life, it may be the only solution to save their diminishing community. It is however, the authors opinion that even with careful management, providing the island with an airstrip is the beginning of the end that will almost certainly come to these people, if not in their abandonment of the island, an abandonment of their total way of life to become oriented to the tourist trade. Some alternative suggestions have been made to the airstrip proposal which may lengthen the time the people can survive on the island, but will alter their lives too dramatically causing the eventual abandoning of Pitcairn.45 pageshttps://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/pages/rightsPitcairn IslandtourismDissertationDigital thesis can be viewed by current staff and students of Lincoln University only. If you are the author of this item, please contact us if you wish to discuss making the full text publicly available.ANZSRC::350805 Tourism resource appraisalANZSRC::350801 Impacts of tourism