aFigure 1.27 on page 28 depicts a setting for potential conflict between the dairy and tourism industries. Suggest how tourism may be managed in order to avoid this clash.
b State the similarities that exist between this situation and the multi-purpose use of Victoria's Bogong Alpine Area.
Figure 1.26a A location map of the Bogong Alpine Area; b the Rocky Valley Recreation Development Zone (Source: Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, Victoria, 1988)
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Kosciusko National Park
Figure 1.27 An alpine meadow near Oberald,
Switzerland
Who is involved in the issue?
Figure 1.28 A hang-gliding competition from Tegelberg, near Fussen. Germany
The question of who is involved in an issue demands slightly more precision than the question of who uses a place, although that question is a good start. An investigator has to be sure to include all parties who have a legitimate interest in the issue. Specific examples of tourist activities' potential impact can be revealed in many national parks found in mountain settings. Because they are relatively remote from intense human economic activities and settlement, and because of their widely acknowledged beauty, vast areas of mountainous country have been proclaimed as national parks or are protected in a similar way. In places such as Tegelberg in southern Germany's Bavarian Alps - see the photograph in Figure 1.28 - or Canada's Banff National Park - see the
photograph in Figure 1.30 on page 30, the parties likely to be involved in any issue include not only-tourists, providers of tourist amenities, and local settlers outside the tourism industry, but park rangers whose job is to protect the tourism resource, scientists who seek to understand the place's unique biophysical environment, and the place's geological structures, plants and animals.
The lastmentioned group usually requires advocates to speak on its behalf. When decisions are being made about issues involving tourist impact on a park's biophysical environment, the people who support non-human interests may include rangers and special interest groups, such as those in North America's Rocky Mountains who seek to protect wolves (demanding that the hunting season be shortened and bag limits be introduced).