A presentation made at the IUCN WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group's Strategy and Networking event at the World Parks Congress, in Sydney 2014.

1. IUCN WCPA TAPAS
The Tourism Journey
Dr. Susan Snyman and Dr. Robyn Bushell
IUCN Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group

2. The Tourism Journey
- Details all tourism-related events, presentations, e-posters, etc.
- The full version includes details of presenters, etc.
- The short version includes only topics, times and venues
TAPAS events:
Thursday 13th @ 12.15 – Tourism as a nature-based solution – Nature based solutions pavilion
Friday 14th @ 20.00 – Tourism in TFCAs – Playfair
Saturday 15th @ 12.15 - Tourism Conservation Partnerships: Lindblad Expeditions - Business &
Biodiversity Pavilion
Saturday 15th @ 19.15 - TAPAS Group networking meeting, CBD update & GSTC briefing –
Business & Biodiversity pavilion
Monday 17th @ 18.00 - Publications launch – Hall 4A1

3. The Tourism Journey
 Twitter : #WPCTourism
 Google Hangouts
 Rapporteurs for all tourism-related sessions
 TAPAS summary document after the Congress
 Special Issue Journal of Tourism and Hospitality
Research

4. Publications:
WCPA Best Practice Guidelines in Sustainable Tourism for Protected
Areas
 Tourism concessions in protected natural areas: guidelines for
managers
 Protected Are Tourism Concessions: A toolkit
 Tourism concession guidelines for Transfrontier Conservation Areas
(TFCAs) in SADC
 Special edition of Koedoe on Tourism and Protected Areas
 Special edition of Parks on Tourism and the Aichi Targets

5. Journal Tourism and Hospitality Research (SAGE) Special Issue
http://thr.sagepub.com/
Tourism and Protected Areas: A review of the last decade
Coordinated by:
Dr. Anna Spenceley (Guest Editor)
Spenceley Tourism and Development (STAND)
Senior Research Fellow, School of Tourism and Hospitality,
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Email: annaspenceley@gmail.com
&
Dr. Susan Snyman (Guest Editor)
Regional Community Development Co-Ordinator, Wilderness Safaris and Research Fellow,
Environmental Economics Policy Research Unit (EPRU), School of Economics,
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Email: sues@wilderness.co.za

6. ENJOY THE TOURISM JOURNEY………