Innovative local response to cyclone damaged reef leads to rapid tourism recovery

IF 2.4 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Ecotourism Pub Date : 2022-01-18 DOI:10.1080/14724049.2022.2027952

Adam K. Smith, Nathan Cook, A. Grundy, M. Lück, P. Pert, Felicity Picken, Joanne Stacey

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Climate change poses substantial risks to natural and human systems and effective response is essential. Underwater sculptures have been installed at multiple global locations to restore damaged reefs, increase tourism and educate visitors. There has been limited research that evaluates the environmental, social, cultural and economic costs of impacts such as cyclones and interventions such as underwater sculptures. Thisresearch investigated the social acceptance of underwater sculptures in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Following three months of planning and consultation, four sculptures were temporarily deployed at several habitats to facilitate action research on underwater sculptures and tourism. Respondents were supportive of installing sculptures in subtidal zones. The consultation and ‘proof of concept’ action research informed environmental assessment processes for installing permanent subtidal underwater sculptures. We report that tourist satisfaction of coral reefs damaged by a cyclone was low and following an intervention and installation of underwater sculptures satisfaction was high.

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当地对飓风破坏珊瑚礁的创新反应导致旅游业迅速恢复

摘要气候变化对自然和人类系统构成了巨大风险，有效应对至关重要。在全球多个地点安装了水下雕塑，以修复受损的珊瑚礁，增加旅游业并教育游客。评估飓风等影响和水下雕塑等干预措施的环境、社会、文化和经济成本的研究有限。本研究调查了澳大利亚大堡礁海洋公园水下雕塑的社会接受度。经过三个月的规划和咨询，四座雕塑被临时部署在几个栖息地，以促进水下雕塑和旅游业的行动研究。受访者支持在潮下带安装雕塑。咨询和“概念验证”行动研究为安装永久潮下水下雕塑的环境评估过程提供了信息。我们报告说，游客对被气旋破坏的珊瑚礁的满意度很低，而在干预和安装水下雕塑后，游客的满意度很高。

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Journal of Ecotourism Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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6.40

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Ecotourism seeks to advance the field by examining the social, economic, and ecological aspects of ecotourism at a number of scales, and including regions from around the world. Journal of Ecotourism welcomes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research, particularly where it contributes to the dissemination of new ideas and models of ecotourism planning, development, management, and good practice. While the focus of the journal rests on a type of tourism based principally on natural history - along with other associated features of the man-land nexus - it will consider papers which investigate ecotourism as part of a broader nature based tourism, as well as those works which compare or contrast ecotourism/ists with other forms of tourism/ists.