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G. Training<br />
4. Activities<br />
• Management, interpretation and support staff should be<br />
trained specifically <strong>for</strong> the special needs of protected area<br />
tourism to maximise visitor enjoyment and minimise visitor<br />
impacts.<br />
Topic 1: Protected area evaluation<br />
Features to be assessed:<br />
• Which protected areas are potentially suitable <strong>for</strong> tourism<br />
development of some kind, in terms of wildlife, scenery, sensitivity,<br />
access, facilities etc.?<br />
• What regional tourism attractions exist or are being developed that<br />
may influence visitor patterns to potentially suitable sites?<br />
• What regional <strong>gov</strong>ernment programmes are planned or exist that may<br />
influence tourism development in potentially suitable sites?<br />
NCWCD departments concerned:<br />
• Planning and Protected Areas<br />
• Monitoring<br />
• Research and Field Studies<br />
Other Government departments:<br />
• Provincial <strong>gov</strong>ernment (Emara)<br />
• Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs<br />
• (National Commission on Tourism)<br />
Suggested structures:<br />
• <strong>The</strong> recently <strong>for</strong>med NCWCD Tourism Development Committee,<br />
with members drawn from the departments of Planning and<br />
Protected Areas, Monitoring and Research, could potentially build on<br />
the protected area assessment presented in this report (Chapter 6),<br />
incorporating parallel work on the development of wildlife parks<br />
(Ady 2000), and in liaison with other agencies, to produce a report<br />
r<strong>eco</strong>mmending priority sites <strong>for</strong> future action.<br />
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