Mediterranean Protected Areas in the Era of Overtourism: Challenges and Solutions

389 Pages·2021·10.811 MB·English

by  Ante Mandić, Lidija Petrić

Ante Mandić
Lidija Petrić   Editors
Mediterranean
Protected
Areas in the Era
of Overtourism
Challenges and Solutions
Mediterranean Protected Areas in the Era
of Overtourism
·
Ante Mandic´ Lidija Petric´
Editors
Mediterranean Protected
Areas in the Era
of Overtourism
Challenges and Solutions
Editors
AnteMandic´ LidijaPetric´
FacultyofEconomics FacultyofEconomics
BusinessandTourism BusinessandTourism
UniversityofSplit UniversityofSplit
Split,Croatia Split,Croatia
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Contents
1 IntroductiontoMediterraneanProtectedAreasintheEra
ofOvertourism ............................................... 1
AnteMandic´ andLidijaPetric´
PartI GovernanceandManagement
2 GovernanceandManagementofProtectedNaturalAreas
intheEraofOvertourism ...................................... 15
LidijaPetric´ andAnteMandic´
3 ManagingOvertourisminNature-BasedDestinations ............ 45
AnteMandic´ andIzidoraMarkovic´ Vukadin
4 MitigatingthePressures:TheRoleofParticipatoryPlanning
inProtectedAreaManagement ................................. 71
SmiljanaPivcˇevic´,JosipMikulic´,andDamirKrešic´
PartII LocalCommunityandWell-Being
5 OvertourismandtheLocalCommunityWell-Being .............. 93
IvanaDamnjanovic´
6 Stakeholder Management and the Imbalance of Power:
ACentralMediterraneanPerspectiveonTourisminMarine
ProtectedAreas ............................................... 117
KarlAgiusandSamanthaChaperon
7 Geoeducation and Tourism in Estrela UNESCO Global
Geopark(Portugal)andItsContributionstotheConstruction
ofaSustainableDestination .................................... 137
GonçaloFernandes, RosaBrancaTracana, EmanuelCastro,
andMagdaFernandes
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8 InvestigatingthePerceptionandAttitudeofBusinessSchool
Students Towards Overtourism at Marseille Calanques
NationalPark ................................................. 153
HuguesSeraphin,SimonSmith,andDorraYahiaoui
9 CollaborativeDestinationManagementBasedonCarrying
CapacityAssessmentfromResidentandVisitorPerspectives:
ACaseStudyofCrikvenica-VinodolRiviera,Croatia ............. 175
NedaTelišman-KošutaandNevenIvandic´
10 LimitsofAcceptableChange(LAC)forTourismDevelopment
intheHistoricCentreofPorto(Portugal) ........................ 193
AnaCarolinaJordão, ZéliaBreda, MedéiaVeríssimo,
IvanaStevic,andCarlosCosta
PartIII ExperienceDesignandManagement
11 Integrating Marketing and Management Planning
forOutstandingVisitorExperiencesinaTurbulentEra:The
CaseofPlitviceLakesNationalPark ............................ 221
StephenF.McCool, PaulF.J.Eagles, OgnjenSkunca,
VesnaVukadin,CharlesBesancon,andAndjelkoNovosel
12 The Lack of Policy, Planning, and Governance: The
Mismanagement of Visitor Pressure in Cumalıkızık,
Bursa—AWorldHeritageSite ................................. 241
SinaKuzuogluandBurcinKalabayHatipoglu
13 AspectsofIntensiveShortDayTripsontheRemotePelagic
Location: Incorporating Visitor Survey, Radar Tracking
and Environmental Risk Analysis in NATURA 2000
MonitoringoftheBlueCave,theIslandofBiševo ................ 265
HrvojeCaric´ andIvoBeroš
14 Research,EducationandTourismasPlaceMarketingTools:
TheCaseoftheJonianDolphinConservationinTaranto,Italy .... 281
NicolaiaIaffaldanoandSoniaFerrari
PartIV IntelligentNature-BasedTourismDevelopment
15 Nature, Tourism, Growth, Resilience and Sustainable
Development .................................................. 297
JoãoRomão
16 ChangingtheGrowth-FocusedMindset:APathwayTowards
SustainableTourismDevelopment .............................. 311
NicolaCamatti,CarolynSmith,andJanvanderBorg
Contents vii
17 TechnologicalSolutionstoOvertourism:PotentialandLimits ..... 337
UlrikeGretzel
18 Resilience Conceptualisation and Protected Areas
intheJadranskaHrvatskaRegion .............................. 351
BlankaŠimundic´,ZvonimirKuliš,andVinkoMuštra
19 Concentrate Mass Tourism to Promote Sustainable
Development .................................................. 371
TomazPonceDentinho
20 SummaryandOutlook ........................................ 383
AnteMandic´ andLidijaPetric´
Editors and Contributors
AbouttheEditors
Dr.AnteMandic´ is an assistant professor at the
University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Business
and Tourism—Department of Tourism and Economy,
Croatia.Hisresearchandteachingfocusonsustainable
tourism management, nature-based tourism and desti-
nation management. He has extensive experience in
tourism-relatedprojectsandhasworkedasanexperton
EU funded projects (ERDF MED, INTERREG). Most
recentlyhehasbeenenrolledasaresearcheronHorizon
2020SmartCulTourproject.HeisamemberoftheIUCN
World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and
TourismandProtectedAreasSpecialistGroup(TAPAS
Group, and Europarc Federation). He currently serves
as an associate editor for the Journal of Ecotourism
(Taylor & Francis). Personal web page: https://antema
ndic.com/.
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x EditorsandContributors
Dr.LidijaPetric´ is a full professor at the Faculty of
Economics,BusinessandTourism,UniversityofSplit.
The primary areas of her scientific interest are the
economicsoftourism,theroleoftourisminregionaland
urban development, destination strategic management
and planning, visitor management strategies, cultural
tourism. She wrote a number of scientific and profes-
sionalpapers,reviews,conferencepapersandscientific-
professional studies. As a guest lecturer, she attended
professional conferences and seminars, postgraduate
studies, as well as international conferences and semi-
nars. As an expert, she cooperated with international
associations such as UNDP, GEF, WWF, UNEP, the
publicbodiesfromnationaltothelocallevelaswellas
non-governmentalinstitutions,participatinginandcoor-
dinatingmanyprojects.Shealsoparticipatedasaleading
researcher in several tourism-related projects funded
by the EU and is currently leading a research team
of her Faculty on the HORIZON 2020 Smart CulTour
Project.Sheisamemberoftheeditorialboardofseveral
scientificjournalsaswellasofscientificcommitteesof
several international conferences. She is a member of
the International Association of Regional Economists
ofEurope—theEuropeanRegionalScientistsAssocia-
tion,theScientificCommitteeforTourismattheCroa-
tian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Croatian
NationalCommitteeforUNESCO.
Contributors
KarlAgius InstituteforTourism,TravelandCulture,UniversityofMalta,Msida,
Malta
IvoBeroš InstituteforTourism,Zagreb,Croatia
CharlesBesancon GlobalParkSolutions,Missoula,Montana,USA
JanvanderBorg Department of Economics (IT), University Ca’ Foscari of
Venice,Venice,Italy;
DivisionofGeographyandTourism(B),KULeuvenUniversity,Louvain,Belgium
ZéliaBreda UniversityofAveiro,Aveiro,Portugal
NicolaCamatti DepartmentofEconomics(IT),UniversityCa’FoscariofVenice,
Venice,Italy
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HrvojeCaric´ InstituteforTourism,Zagreb,Croatia
EmanuelCastro AssociaçãoGeoparkEstrela(AGE),Guarda,Portugal
SamanthaChaperon Department of Marketing, Events and Tourism, University
ofGreenwich,London,UK
CarlosCosta UniversityofAveiro,Aveiro,Portugal
IvanaDamnjanovic´ FacultyofHealthandBusinessStudies,SingidunumUniver-
sity,Valjevo,Serbia
TomazPonceDentinho Centro de Estudos de Economia Aplicada do Atlântico
(CEEAplA),UniversityoftheAzores,PontaDelgada,Portugal
PaulF.J.Eagles UniversityofWaterloo,Waterloo,Canada
GonçaloFernandes Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, CITUR, CICS.NOVA,
Guarda,Portugal
MagdaFernandes AssociaçãoGeoparkEstrela(AGE),Guarda,Portugal
SoniaFerrari UniversityofCalabria,Rende,Italy
UlrikeGretzel UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,LosAngeles,CA,USA
BurcinKalabayHatipoglu SchoolofBusiness,CanberraandIIRG,TheUniver-
sityofNewSouthofWales,Sydney,Australia
NicolaiaIaffaldano UniversityofBari,Bari,Italy
NevenIvandic´ InstituteforTourism,Zagreb,Croatia
AnaCarolinaJordão UniversityofAveiro,Aveiro,Portugal
DamirKrešic´ InstituteforTourismZagreb,Zagreb,Croatia
ZvonimirKuliš FacultyofEconomics,BusinessandTourism,UniversityofSplit,
Split,Croatia
SinaKuzuoglu Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of
Waterloo,Waterloo,ON,Canada
AnteMandic´ Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, University of Split,
Split,Croatia
IzidoraMarkovic´ Vukadin InstituteforTourism,Zagreb,Croatia
StephenF.McCool UniversityofMontana,Montana,USA
JosipMikulic´ FacultyofEconomicsandBusiness,UniversityofZagreb,Zagreb,
Croatia;
InstituteforTourismZagreb,Zagreb,Croatia
VinkoMuštra Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, University of Split,
Split,Croatia