Marine Wildlife and Tourism Management: Insights from the Natural and Social Sciences
The marine environment encompasses two-thirds of the surface of the ‘blue planet’ (Lück, 2007a). From inshore environments, such as estuaries, lagoons, atolls and reef systems, mud flats and mangroves, to the pelagic environments of the open oceans, the marine environment has become, albeit relat...
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| Tóm tắt: | The marine environment encompasses two-thirds of the surface of the ‘blue
planet’ (Lück, 2007a). From inshore environments, such as estuaries, lagoons,
atolls and reef systems, mud flats and mangroves, to the pelagic environments
of the open oceans, the marine environment has become, albeit relatively
belatedly (Orams, 1999), a major venue for tourism and recreation. Many
marine environments, such as the North Atlantic Gulf Stream and the
Antarctic convergence, boast high biomass and fantastic arrays of wildlife.
Marine wildlife ranges from the complex ecologies of the Great Barrier
Reef (Coral Sea) – coral reefs support over 25% of all known marine species
(International Coral Reef Information Network, 2002) – to the Southern
Ocean, where one link in the food chain is all that separates the smallest
one-cell organisms from the largest animal on earth (see Maher, Chapter 16,
this volume).
It is remarkable, then, that nature-based marine tourism has so recently
become the subject of tourist attention. While marine environments have long
been, and continue to be, venues for exploration, subsistence, transport and
communication, merchant trade and conflict, recreation and tourist attention
have relatively recently turned to the pursuit of marine experiences. Excursions
to coastal resorts in Great Britain date to the 1850s, and beach holidays to the
1930s, following the unveiling of the bikini on the cover of Vogue magazine
in 1929. The phenomenon of holidays at Mediterranean and Caribbean
coastal and island resorts and destinations dates from the 1950s (Bramwell,
2004), and cruise shipping, exclusively the domain of the rich and famous in
the early 20th century, has experienced a renaissance since the 1990s (Lück,
2007b). |
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