what is it?
caring capcity is the number of people that can be alowed to visit a destination at the same time without the destinatioon surfaring any negetive impacts on the enviroment and other factors. eg socio economic.
the are two levels of caring capacity
the physical which stipulates how many people can be present at a destination at a time.
the perceptual which stipulate how much enjoyment can be found at a destination antil tourists decide to go ealsewhere
the reason it was not successful
caring capacity was asking the wrong question altogether it easnt about how many people can be in a destination without coursing some negetive impact but rader their behavior. HOW MUCH USE IS ACCEPTABLE
limits of exceptable change
the three componets of LAC
PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
DEVELOPMENT PLANING
QUALITY MANGEMNET
limits of acceptable change ways how much change is acceptable due to human use and works to limit this change through a 9 step program
domestic tourism
domestic tourism initiative
vaya mzanzi
slogan
everything you are looking for is right here in south africa
5 segments
1 the spontaneurs badget explorers 18-24 single youth from all races
2 high life ethusiastics 25-45 high income balck colards and indians without children
3 new horizon families 35 upwards midle income black colored indian families
4 seasenal lesure seekers 25- 45 mainly midle to high income white people without children
5 well to do mzanzi families 25-45 high income black indian and colored people with indepedent children
four step strategy
- enhence culture of travel in south africans
- enhance geografic spread and combat seasenality travel
- increase number of holiday and lessure travelers
- increase domestic travel expenditure
tourism that happens across a regiomn eg southen african development comunity SADC this is when tourist get to visit more than on country in a region.
aims
to destribute tourism wealth across the region
to develop less developed copuntries in the region
to create awereness and access to a variety of counries which combine to create an exiting divercified tourism product
spacial development initiatives
SDI
Maputo development corridor
these are initiative aimed at developing certen areas which have been less expored for tourism purposes
this is done through motivating investment
removing bottleneck usualy issure of infrastructure'
SDI'S are strategies to develop a certain spacial area usualy a ruete across 3 counries which is then well marketed developed so that it can recieve tourism atention. eg mozambique south africa and swaziland are a spacial development known a s the east three ruete.
problems
border problems
rode problems
not enough hubs to contect people swiofly across the counries
tidieas paper work. eg in south africa they may requre more or less of the documents you showed in the other countries and this may resolt i n delays and missed events.
climate issues one country may be a lot more hotter than the privious and this may resolt in reactions to the climate.
lack of facilities in other les developed countries
local economic development
LED
this is a innitiative to develop the economy of a certain community so that the is better quality of life for all
five step planing process
- organising the effort
- conducting a local economy assesment
- developing the LED strategy
- implimenting the LED strategy
- reviewing the LED strategy
