Title: Visitor Management and Planning Frameworks

Contents

1. Visitor Management Frameworks—Introduction

2. Description of Visitor Management Models

a) Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS): Introduction, structure, application, examples, drawbacks

b) Visitor Activity Management Process (VAMP): Introduction, structure, data, application, examples, drawbacks

c) Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC): Introduction, structure, applications, examples, drawbacks

d) Visitor Impact Management (VIM) Process: Introduction, structure, data, application and examples, drawbacks

e) Visitor Experience and Resource Protection (VERP): Introduction, structure, application, drawbacks

f) Tourism Optimization Management Model (TOMM): Introduction, structure, data, implementation, application, drawbacks

3. Discussion

4. Conclusion   

a) Why transformation of visitor management from an ad hoc process to working with frameworks has not been smooth

5. Attempts to implement VAMP in Canadian national parks: Limitations

6. Visitor management is continually changing

7. Table: A comparison of six visitor management frameworks (879 words)

Total number of words: 6,694 (22.3 Pages)