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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Ontario resource-based tourism industry encompasses some 1,650 licensed tourist operators that generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues annually. The purpose of this study is to identify alternative resource-based tourism product development opportunities beyond the traditional hunting & fishing markets. After an introduction on the challenges facing this sector, the key issues to be addressed, and the study methods used, chapter 2 presents an analysis of the current state of the resource-based tourism sector, based on stakeholder consultations, product analysis, and a tourist operator survey. Chapter 3 analyzes domestic & international travel to & within Ontario, including travel patterns, tourist characteristics & activity preferences, and tourism trends, in order to better understand the resource-based tourism market and assess the potential for new tourism products. Chapter 4 examines the potential of both the natural & cultural resource base of rural Ontario for enhancing resource-based tourism product opportunities and diversifying significantly beyond fishing & hunting activities. Chapter 5 analyzes the sector's key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, & threats and compiles a long list of product development opportunities which resource-based tourist operators & communities in rural Ontario can implement. Chapter 6 summarizes key strategic directions required to enhance the overall resource-based tourism industry, based on both public & private sector initiatives. The final chapter comments on Ontario's current status in the marketplace, the competitive positioning of other jurisdictions, and how the province could enhance its overall positioning in the outdoor adventure, nature-oriented tourism, and ecotourism markets. Appendices include results of consultation sessions with tourist operators, the questionnaire used in the operator survey, and case studies of unique resource-based tourism products from outside Ontario.
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Category : Ecotourism
Languages : en
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Author: Colin Michael Hall
Publisher: Channel View Publications
ISBN: 9781845410001
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas provides a comprehensive examination of this form of tourism development as it occurs within alpine, forest, sub-polar, island, coastal and marine environments. This book goes beyond much of the debate surrounding ecotourism and the impacts of tourism in vulnerable environments to place nature-based tourism in a wider regional context, particularly when for many peripheral regions tourism remains one of the key opportunities for economic development. Therefore, a central theme that is present throughout many of the chapters is the role that nature-based tourism can play as the catalyst for larger regional development of regions. The book will serve as essential reading to senior undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in tourism and related degrees where the major focus is on tourism that occurs within peripheral regions. It will also serve as a key reference to researchers and professionals interested in the role of tourism as a regional development tool.
Author: Len Hunt
Publisher: [Thunder Bay, Ont.] : Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research
ISBN: 9780779429301
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Charles Conteh
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442613564
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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This book analyzes economic development policy governance in northern Ontario over the past thirty years, with the goal of making practical policy recommendations for present and future government engagement with the region. It brings together scholars from several disciplines to address the policy and management challenges in various sectors of northern Ontario's economy, including the mining, pulp and paper, and tourism industries, and both small- and medium-sized businesses. Governance in Northern Ontario assesses the role of the provincial government and its economic policy intervention in the region's economic development. The contributors evaluate the relationship between the provincial and local governments and the business sector, and also looser structures of policy networks, such as those of First Nations and other interested community groups. Focusing on the nature of partnerships between governments and societal interests, Governance in Northern Ontario makes a significant contribution to the theories and practice of public policy governance in socioeconomically disadvantaged regions.
Author: Ontario. Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research
Publisher: [Thunder Bay, Ont.] : Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research
ISBN: 9780779452064
Category : Ecotourism
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Author: Nancy Duxbury
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429533969
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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Cultural Sustainability, Tourism and Development considers how tourism provides a lens to examine issues of cultural sustainability and change. It discusses how cultural and natural assets, artistic interventions, place identity, policy strategies, and community well-being are intertwined in (re)articulations of place and local dynamics that occur in tourist locations. With a primary focus on culture in sustainable development, the book clarifies connections between culture as a core dimension of local sustainability and cultural dimensions of sustainable tourism. It highlights the roles and place of cultural expression, artistic activity, and heritage resources in local or regional sustainable development contexts. Chapters critically examine the dimensions of tourism-invoked dynamics of change and the cultural impacts of tourism-related activities. The book concludes with proposals for new culture-informed and creativity-based approaches, mediations, and relations to encourage a better balance between visitors and residents’ quality of life and the broader sustainability of the area. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, contributions reflect on communities and rural areas located in Brazil, Canada, Croatia, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and the United States. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural development and policy, heritage studies, cultural tourism and sustainable tourism, cultural geography, and regional development.
Author: Ontario
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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Author: Kendra O'Neill
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Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The lifecycle of resource towns in Canada has been a topic of study for many decades, but recently, the role of diversification has become a key point in the discussion. Tourism and recreation are a potential route to diversification, especially for minetowns looking to reduce the impacts of 'boom and bust,' so common with the fluctuation of markets. One unique option for minetowns is the repurposing of mine land to support nature- and resource-based tourism and recreation (NRBTR). A post-mining landscape designed to be accessible and provide a new asset for the community can help with the diversification efforts and promotion of tourism. This study investigates the diversification of northern mining communities. The research is guided by objectives focused on community lifecycle modeling, northern Ontario minetown population, labour force and tourism, and the reuse of mine sites for NRBTR. A mixed methods approach is used to combine qualitative and quantitative data. This includes qualitative deductive modeling, a quantitative community inventory, and qualitative case studies. A new minetown model is proposed that addresses the shortcomings of existing resource community lifecycle models. The new model uses mining sector labour force as the categorizing factor, and includes stages of mining influence and diversification responses. An inventory of northern Ontario minetowns, identified at any time from 1950 to the present day as being dependent, is created. The inventory is used to assess population and labour force trends and the prevalence of tourism in the communities. The inventory results show only one post-1950 minetown as being abandoned (Renabie), and 24 have been amalgamated into larger municipal areas, leaving 23 communities in the inventory. Minetowns are found to move through the lifecycle stages in a non-sequential fashion from 1991 to 2011 and to have a more diversified economic base than previous models allowed for, supporting the need for a new evolutionary model. Nearly all communities were found to have tourism and NRBTR businesses and activities. Only one (Gauthier) did not have tourism businesses and only three (Cobalt, Gauthier and McGarry) did not have NRBTR businesses. NRBTR has previously been identified as a market niche for northern Ontario and its prominence in minetowns supports this. The communities were surveyed for NRBTR post-mining land uses to identify case study sites. From these, the Charleson Recreation Area in Atikokan and the Sherriff Creek Sanctuary in Elliot Lake were selected. The case studies examined the process of transitioning former mines to NRBTR sites in former minetowns, including the on-going use and maintenance of the site. Both sites were naturalised areas where informal passive recreation occurred pre-NRBTR development. This helped facilitate the transition to a formal NRBTR asset. The case study findings indicate that volunteers and community members are the primary drivers for NRBTR redevelopment projects. The need for clearly defined roles in development and maintenance of such sites is supported by the findings. This thesis highlights the reality of minetowns and the lifecycles that describe them, and the opportunity for post-mining land use for NRBTR. Academic and applied implications of the research are provided with recommendations for various actors, including those considering mine site redevelopment to support NRBTR activities. This research supports proactive diversification efforts in mining communities, and supports the inclusion of NRBTR.
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Pages : 46
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