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Managing Tourism - Quotas & Tourism Hubs

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Quotas and Tourism Hubs

Introducing quotas to a tourist destination, and designating certain areas as tourism hubs are both ways to manage tourism and reduce the negative impacts.

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Quotas (limiting numbers)

  • E.g. Antarctica does not allow ships carrying more than 500 people to land.
    • No more than 100 people may leave the ship at any given time.
    • There can’t be 2 ships landing at the same place at the same time, so that environmental damage is limited.
  • The island of St Helena in the South Atlantic has only one public flight a week which can take 76 passengers (some residents and some tourists) to limit tourist numbers.
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Tourism hubs

  • This is where a country blocks tourism from happening in most places but allows one location to be taken over by tourism (e.g. Benidorm in Spain).
  • This means that the majority of the country will be left undamaged.

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