Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism

After successfully completing this course, you’ll be able to:

1. Situate Aotearoa-New Zealand’s protected areas system within an historical context and understand its significance for conservation, recreation and tourism.
2. Provide a critical overview of the characteristics of natural resource recreationists, the expectations of nature-based tourists and their impacts in multiple contexts.
3. Analyse natural resource recreation in terms of ethnicity, culture, history, personal values and experiential dimensions of recreation.
4. Understand and appraise strategies for addressing conflict arising from management of natural resource recreation and tourism.
5. Identify and discuss the range of current visitor management issues affecting participation in and management of natural resource recreation and tourism.
6. Examine the unique challenges of effective communication with visitors within natural resource settings, including knowledge of the theory and strategies associated with modifying visitor behavior.
7. Critically appraise management practice, theoretical frameworks and research findings within the context of natural resource recreation and tourism.
8. Understand concepts of sustainability and resilience and assess these in the context of tourism growth and development.