TAPAS (Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group) http://planeta.wikispaces.com/tapas

2. Our vision
We envision a future where tourism
associated with protected areas has a
positive impact on biodiversity,
and where tourism is environmentally, socially
and economically sustainable

3. Who we are
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
(WCPA) Specialist Group
Voluntary technical network
Specialists on tourism and protected areas and
areas of particular importance to biodiversity

4. What we do - knowledge

5. What we do – build capacity

6. What we do – network

7. Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group Executive Committee, 2014
World Parks Congress @ Sydney, Australia

8. Tourism and Protected Areas
Specialist Group (TAPAS) is one
of WCPA structural divisions
which is committed to support
sustainable tourism in
protected areas.

9. The mission of the TAPAS is to
provide a forum where people
collaborate, stimulate dialogue,
share expertise, develop and
disseminate knowledge, and
enhance learning, in order to enable
the planning, development and
management of sustainable
tourism in protected areas.

10. Membership benefits include:
* Exchanging dialogue and information
with a wide range of colleagues interested
in tourism and protected areas
* Sharing research information
* Collaborating on joint publications and
participating in research programs,
seminars and conferences
* Membership in a Google discussion group
* Discounted prices for social web
workshops and webinars

11. Six Objectives:
1. Provide strategic advice to governments
and others on the optimum approaches to
sustainable tourism in protected and
natural areas.
2. Strengthen the capacity and
effectiveness of protected area managers
and policy makers and others in relation to
sustainable tourism.
3. Enhance the level of tourism
contribution to the goals of protected
areas and protected area systems.

12. 4. Enhance the capacity of WCPA, including
through co-operative ventures with networks
and partners and, in particular IUCN members,
and recognize their contributions.
5. Develop and disseminate knowledge on
tourism and protected areas, including case
studies and best practice syntheses.
6. Provide an interactive forum for individuals
working on protected areas and tourism, which
allows them to network, communicate,
collaborate, and develop partnerships.

13. TAPAS
Twitter
Google+
Slideshare
Facebook
LinkedIn
Wiki

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25. World Parks Congress Planning Meeting @ Thomas Brooks

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Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group

29. TAPAS Orientation Agenda
• W e l c o m e
• I n s i d e T A P A S
• I n t r o d u c t i o n s
• E v e n t s
• V i e w e r Q u e s t i o n s
• S o c i a l W e b T o u r
• F i n a l C o m m e n t s
p l a n e t a . w i k i s p a c e s . c o m / t a p a s

31. Membership
applica.on:
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Facebook:
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Specialist-­‐Group/122961127797095
LinkedIn:
h$ps://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4735342
Slideshare:
h$p://www.slideshare.net/planeta/tapasgroup
Wiki:
h$p://planeta.wikispaces.com/tapas
Google+:
h$ps://plus.google.com/u/0/117973343043881234019/posts
IUCN
Website:
h$p://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/
gpap_capacity2/gpap_wcpacap/gpap_tourism/
Links

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