Research Note: Optimizing Economic Returns from Protected Area Tourism — Tourism-Related Income and Expenditure Trends of the Department of Conservation, New Zealand

Yusuf Riza and Brent Lovelock
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Yusuf Riza: Foreign Investment Services Bureau, Ministry of Trade and Industries, Male, Maldives
Brent Lovelock: Department of Tourism, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

Tourism Economics, 2006, vol. 12, issue 4, 659-666

Abstract: Increasing visitor numbers have been identified as a contributor to the financial stress experienced by many protected area management agencies. This research note reports on a study of the income and expenditure of the Department of Conservation in New Zealand – the country's protected area manager and arguably its largest tourist operator. Income and expenditure data are analysed in relation to visitation to protected areas in New Zealand for the ten-year period 1992–2002. The findings reveal that income from tourism-related sources is very low, despite the increasing volumes of visitors. An argument is presented for enhancing visitor-sourced income, particularly from international visitors.

Keywords: protected area; income; conservation; New Zealand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.5367/000000006779319945

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