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Projection of tourist scenarios onto fragility maps: Framework for determination of provisional tourist carrying capacity in a Brazilian show cave

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  • Lobo, Heros Augusto Santos
  • Trajano, Eleonora
  • Marinho, Maurício de Alcântara
  • Bichuette, Maria Elina
  • Scaleante, José Antonio Basso
  • Scaleante, Oscarlina Aparecida Furquim
  • Rocha, Bárbara Nazaré
  • Laterza, Francisco Villela

Abstract

Traditionally, the concept of tourist carrying capacity has been understood as a tool for planning tourism in natural areas. As such it has focused on quantifying impacts that are consistent with maintaining a specific environment. In this article tourist carrying capacity is considered from a different viewpoint in a case study of a Brazilian show cave, the Diabo cave, near Eldorado city, São Paulo state. In this instance decisions concerning tourism had been based primarily on the advantages that tourism could provide in maintaining economic-administrative sustainability and community support. More recently, other factors based on natural limitations have been considered in a process of participative discussion among stakeholders seeking to preserve the caves and their sustainable usage. This process led to the conclusion that the carrying capacity of the caves should be flexible, conditioned by protocols of environmental monitoring with reference to levels of demand. Such monitoring, it is hoped, will permit the adjustment of the initial cave limits as a function of changes in the patterns of consumption, local realities, and the identification of unanticipated yet unacceptable environmental impacts.

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  • Lobo, Heros Augusto Santos & Trajano, Eleonora & Marinho, Maurício de Alcântara & Bichuette, Maria Elina & Scaleante, José Antonio Basso & Scaleante, Oscarlina Aparecida Furquim & Rocha, Bárbara Nazar, 2013. "Projection of tourist scenarios onto fragility maps: Framework for determination of provisional tourist carrying capacity in a Brazilian show cave," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 234-243.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:touman:v:35:y:2013:i:c:p:234-243
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2012.07.008
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    1. Josef Zelenka & Jaroslav Kacetl, 2014. "The Concept of Carrying Capacity in Tourism," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 16(36), pages 641-641, May.
    2. Piera Buonincontri & Roberto Micera & María Murillo-Romero & Tommasina Pianese, 2021. "Where Does Sustainability Stand in Underground Tourism? A Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(22), pages 1-28, November.
    3. Šebela, Stanka & Turk, Janez, 2014. "Natural and anthropogenic influences on the year-round temperature dynamics of air and water in Postojna show cave, Slovenia," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 233-243.
    4. Leask, Anna, 2016. "Visitor attraction management: A critical review of research 2009–2014," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 334-361.

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