- Title
- Tourism and fresh water, an essential blend
- Creator
- Lehmann, La Vergne
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/55581
- Identifier
- vital:4987
- Abstract
- It has been recognised around the world that there is an increasing need to improve the management practices for fresh water use in tourism accommodation developments. Water issues have become even more critical when considering the number of regions that are now impacted by increasingly dry conditions. Evidence presented at the Climate Change and Tourism Conference held at Djerba, Tunisia in 2003, brought to the attention of researchers the complexity of the inter-relationship between fresh water and tourism in dryland regions and to date there has been little research into the relationship that dryland regional accommodation enterprises have with fresh water and how this has changed in an increasingly water constrained environment. This gap in the research, coupled with the development of a range of different styles of tourism accommodation that has accompanied the development of regional tourism destinations in Australia, has provided the rationale for this case study. The results of an initial survey involving tourism accommodation operators in the Grampians and Wimmera Mallee regions in western Victoria, Australia, suggest that despite ongoing drought conditions relatively few operators have developed sustainable water management practices. Those who have engaged in sustainable management practices have recognised the need for innovation, the importance of understanding local environmental issues and the opportunity to create new markets while educating their visitors. Through identifying the extent to which these factors influence freshwater use in different styles of tourism accommodation enterprises it has been possible to identify the relationship betweenthe dependent variable; tourism accommodation water consumption and the independent variables; accommodation operator values; and perceived guest values. This has informed the development of a range of strategies to guide sustainable fresh water use across tourism accommodation enterprises in dryland regions, recognising that tourism and freshwater are indeed an essential blend!
- Publisher
- University of South Australia
- Relation
- CAUTHE 2011 National Conference University of South Australia 8-11th February, 2011 p. 214-234
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Sustainable water management; Sustainable tourism
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