Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
• Water consumption/visitor
night/visitor
20 to 40 litres of
water
Source:
McArthur (2000a)
additional research to understand the issue, modification to existing
practices, site-based development, marketing and lobbying).
After the tourism-related options are developed, the preferred option is tested by
brainstorming how the option might influence the various indicators. This requires the
reuse of the predicted performance and management response sections of the model.
Once several years of data are collected, the model can be transferred to a simple
computer program to streamline the reporting, predicting and testing of options.
The final application of the model is to test potential options or management responses
to a range of alternative scenarios. The first form of testing for application is the
performance of a sample of individual indicators. The second form of testing the model's
performance is against several potential future scenarios that have already been
developed and presented in the contextual analysis. The testing helps ensure that the
model has some degree of predictive capability.
The first TOMM was produced in late 1996 and implemented during 1997 (Hall and
McArthur 1998; McArthur 2000a). It spanned public and private land in South
Australia's Kangaroo Island, and was co-funded by the Federal and South Australian
Tourism Departments, and the South Australian Department of Environment and Natural
Resources. The TOMM has attracted support not only from its three public sector
funders, but also from local government, the local tourism association, the tourism
industry, conservation groups and members of the local community (Hall and McArthur
1998; McArthur 2000a). This has been achieved because of several key characteristics,
including
• the TOMM covers a range of dimensions to the heritage-visitor relationship
• a wide range of stakeholders collect data and therefore 'own' part of the intellectual
property
• the results of the monitoring are produced in easy-to-follow formats so that any
untrained eye can pass over them and broadly deduce the health of the heritage-visitor
relationship
• management strategies can be jointly determined through shared understandings of the
current situation and emerging trends.
