Benxiang Zeng

Short-Term Perturbations and Tourism Effects: The case of SARS in China

The 2003 SARS epidemic created a significant negative impact on tourism development in China. This paper reviews the effects on tourism of different short-term crises, analyses the effects of SARS and explores the possibility of tourism businesses being buffered from such short-term crisis and the possible new motivations derived from the crisis. Tourism’s lack of resistance but high resilience to short term crises provides tourism and regional planning challenges. These characteristics suggest diversification and partnerships can minimise community vulnerability to crises and rapid economic recovery is possible based on tourism’s resilient nature.

Perceptions of pastoralists and conservation reserve managers on managing feral camels and their impacts.

The perceptions of people living within the current range of feral camels and involved in the pastoral industry and conservation reserve management were assessed through a questionnaire survey. The survey was designed to gauge understanding about the distribution and abundance of feral camels, perspective on camel impacts, and attitudes towards different camel management options. Camels occurred on 74.2% of pastoral properties and 51.4% of reserves that were surveyed. Camels were reported to be increasing on more than 50% of pastoral properties and 88% of reserves and were reported to cause damage on most properties where they occurred. The total monetary value of this damage (including management to mitigate it) was estimated to be

Inadequate contribution of commercial harvest to the management of feral camels in Australia

7.15 million per annum on the pastoral estate and

Tourism-generated Income Distribution in a Poor Rural Community: A Case Study from Shaanxi, China

0.37 million per annum across the conservation estate within or on the margins of the camel range. On the pastoral estate, ~

Impacts of the Alice Solar City Program on the Local Tourism Industry

2.40 million of the damage per annum was to infrastructure whereas production losses amounted to

Key Issues in Management of Indigenous Protected Areas

3.42 million per annum. A minority of pastoral properties and reserves reported tangible benefits that accrued from selling camels, eating camels and using camels for natural resource management activities including weed control. The monetary value of the benefit was estimated to be about

Camel culling and carbon emissions in rangelands in central Australia

0.58 million per annum across the pastoral estate, compared with ~

Park Management, Tourism and Indigenous People

34 379 per annum across the conservation estate. Pastoralists and reserve managers generally saw a need to control camels and their impacts and currently play an active role in this regard. Both landholder groups favoured culling and commercial use to manage camel impacts but were comfortable using all of the available approaches and willing to consider new ones.

What do we know about social media in tourism? A review

In central Australia feral camels constitute a growing environmental problem. The current control solution is population reduction to protect key environmental assets, mainly through culling by shooting to waste and some small-scale commercial harvest. From knowledge of the 2008 population and projected rates of increase, this paper simulates the effects on the population of a range of annually increasing harvest rates, and assesses the practicability of achieving commercial harvests at rates high enough to control numbers. We conclude that commercial harvest will not in the near future be a major tool for feral camel management, although it could generate economic benefits to some stakeholders, such as Aboriginal communities, and reduce local camel populations in targeted areas. In the short to medium term, large-scale culling is required to the point where the growing commercial harvest will provide a sufficient environmental control.

Assisting the poor in China through tourism development: a review of research.

Using tourism as an instrument to reduce poverty is an increasingly common policy in developing countries. Based on a case study in China, this paper analyses the effects of tourism on the incomes of a poor community through the use of a survey replicating an earlier work in the same area supported by secondary data sets supplemented by observation. It was found that local households generally benefited from tourism development but may have over-estimated the extra income generated by tourism. The study also identified the existence of substantial barriers that inhibited a greater participation in tourism on the part of local people. One consequence is that the sought for increments to income are not being realised. Additionally, over time, evidence exists of a changing community assessment of the impact of tourism, and with experience of tourism those concerns become more holistic and not solely related to income generation.