Visitor Management
Executive summary
Tourism overcrowding always happen when a large number of visitors visit same destination. The Siloso Beach in Sentosa Resort, a famous beach in Singapore, is a destination that overcrowded temporary during holiday and festival. Overcrowding at Siloso Beach has caused multiple negative impacts. Pollution and conflicts are major problems in there,
The visitor impact management (VIM) is an appropriate approach could be contributed to manage Siloso Beach in order to reduce visitor impacts. In addition, direct and in direct visitor management strategies had been contributed to deal with the problems Siloso Beach faced. Direct strategies had been used, such as enforcing, zoning and infrastructures, to manage purposeful destroying behaviors and regulation to limit the interaction between visitors and resources. Nevertheless, indirect strategies, such as user fees and education, are based on pro-social behavior which influences visitors’ inappropriate behaviors by induces visitors’ voluntary behavior modification or by information delivery.
Whereas, there are a lot of unpredictable challenges faced by Siloso Beach, when implementation of those visitor management strategies. Therefore, the approach and strategies need to be adjusted as conditions changing.
Contents
1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Environmental and social-cultural Impacts 5 2.1 Tourism overcrowding issues 5 2.1.1 Nature and degree of Overcrowding 5 2.1.2 Consequences of tourism of overcrowding-Pollution 6 2.1.3 Implications on sustainability 7 2.2 Conflicts issue 8 2.2.1 Nature and degree of conflicts 8 2.2.2 Consequences of conflicts 9 2.2.3 Implication on sustainability 9 2.3 Current practices & Current challenges 9 3.0 Recommendation 10 3.1The application of Visitor Impact Management 10 3.1.1 The approach of VIM 10 3.1.2 Management Strategies 11 3.2 Challenges in implementation 14 4.0 Conclusions 15 References 16 Appendix 18
Tourism overcrowding always happen when a large number of visitors visit same destination. The Siloso Beach in Sentosa Resort, a famous beach in Singapore, is a destination that overcrowded temporary during holiday and festival. Overcrowding at Siloso Beach has caused multiple negative impacts. Pollution and conflicts are major problems in there,
The visitor impact management (VIM) is an appropriate approach could be contributed to manage Siloso Beach in order to reduce visitor impacts. In addition, direct and in direct visitor management strategies had been contributed to deal with the problems Siloso Beach faced. Direct strategies had been used, such as enforcing, zoning and infrastructures, to manage purposeful destroying behaviors and regulation to limit the interaction between visitors and resources. Nevertheless, indirect strategies, such as user fees and education, are based on pro-social behavior which influences visitors’ inappropriate behaviors by induces visitors’ voluntary behavior modification or by information delivery.
Whereas, there are a lot of unpredictable challenges faced by Siloso Beach, when implementation of those visitor management strategies. Therefore, the approach and strategies need to be adjusted as conditions changing.
Contents
1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Environmental and social-cultural Impacts 5 2.1 Tourism overcrowding issues 5 2.1.1 Nature and degree of Overcrowding 5 2.1.2 Consequences of tourism of overcrowding-Pollution 6 2.1.3 Implications on sustainability 7 2.2 Conflicts issue 8 2.2.1 Nature and degree of conflicts 8 2.2.2 Consequences of conflicts 9 2.2.3 Implication on sustainability 9 2.3 Current practices & Current challenges 9 3.0 Recommendation 10 3.1The application of Visitor Impact Management 10 3.1.1 The approach of VIM 10 3.1.2 Management Strategies 11 3.2 Challenges in implementation 14 4.0 Conclusions 15 References 16 Appendix 18
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