Managing commercial tourism for conservation and sustainable use: Policy instrument interactions in Cape Byron Marine Park, Australia

Marisha Ewart; Pascal Scherrer; Kay Dimmock

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106233

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Managing commercial tourism for conservation and sustainable use: Policy instrument interactions in Cape Byron Marine Park, Australia

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Managing commercial tourism for conservation and sustainable use: Policy instrument interactions in Cape Byron Marine Park, Australia

Marisha Ewart, Pascal Scherrer and Kay Dimmock

Marine policy, Vol.166, 106233

08/2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106233

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Commercial tourism

Marine protected areas

Policy instrument mix

Policy instruments

Sustainable tourism

The menu of policy instruments available to marine protected area management agencies is diverse. There are calls for more effective bundling to achieve policy goals. This study seeks to understand the interactive effects of marine protected area policy instruments applied in combination to commercial tourism operators. Using the Persuade-Enable-Constrain framework, we undertook a qualitative case study at Cape Byron Marine Park. Based on semi-structured interviews with management agencies (n=3) and tourism operators (n=12), we assessed the interactions between policy instruments and tourism operator behaviour. We found that the policy instrument mix primarily relied on the permit system, and there were limited persuasive, enabling, and constraining effects. This case study demonstrates that policy instrument mixes relying on single instruments have limited prospects for shaping tourism operator behaviour with the marine protected area goals of biodiversity conservation and sustainable economic use and are inadequate for high tourism marine protected areas. Key issues and management recommendations are discussed. The study provides evidence of ‘real world’ examples of policy instrument mixes and practical implications. The findings have practical relevance to planners, policy-makers, and marine protected area managers for future instrument mixes to more effectively achieve policy goals.

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Title: Managing commercial tourism for conservation and sustainable use: Policy instrument interactions in Cape Byron Marine Park, Australia
Creators: Marisha Ewart - Southern Cross University
Pascal Scherrer - Southern Cross University
Kay Dimmock - Southern Cross University
Publication Details: Marine policy, Vol.166, 106233
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd; London
Grant note: Southern Cross University: 2022/125
This research was supported by Southern Cross University (Human Research Ethics Committee Approval Number 2022/125) . The authors wish to thank the management agency representatives and commercial tourism operators for their participation.
Identifiers: 991013199612902368
Academic Unit: Management; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Managing commercial tourism for conservation and sustainable use: Policy instrument interactions in Cape Byron Marine Park, Australia

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