Tourism and Coastal Communities

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Tourism and Coastal Communities

• Bonnie J. McCay, Ph.D
• Rutgers the State University

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Seaside Tourism Bring Money or Bring Your Own
Chair

• Wailea Renaissance Hotel, Maui, Hawaii, 2005

• Lagoon, Miami, Florida, 2005

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• Definition

• Goal

• Seaside tourism any tourist activity or
  enterprise that occurs close to the sea and that
  is in some measure oriented toward coastal and
  oceanic places, resources, and vistas

• to understand the tourist experience and
  tourism industry from the perspective of both
  tourists themselves and those whose worlds, or
  constructed versions of them, are being displayed

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SEASIDE TOURISM

• WHAT IS IT, IRA, THAT DRAWS MAN INEXORABLY BACK
  TO THE SEA?

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

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Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada
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Issues for the future of seaside tourism

• -- tourism and environmental sustainability
• -- tourism and alleviating poverty
• -- the working waterfront
• -- the heritage of seaside tourism
• --public access and private rights
• --coping with natural and human disasters,
  planning for the future
• --governance of complex systems

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Seaside tourism and environmental sustainability

• LOVING IT TO DEATH

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Just looking at but also eroding the Cliffs of
Moher, Ireland
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Beach Driving Sunset Beach, Oregon, USA
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Curonian Spit (Kuriu Nerija) Path for Tourists

• Curonian Spit, Kuriu Nerija
• UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Whale-Watching and -Touching

• Newborn Sea Lion, La Jolla, California, USA, 3/09

• Gray Whale and Ecotourist, Laguna San Ignacio,
  BCS, Mexico 3/05

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Soufriere Managing Conflict between Tourists and
Locals

• Locals at Jalousie

• Soufriere Beach

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The New SMMA

• The mission of the Soufriere Marine Management
  Area is to contribute to national and local
  development, particularly in the fisheries and
  tourism sectors, through the management of the
  coastal zone of Soufriere, based on the
  principles of sustainable use, cooperation among
  resource users, institutional collaboration,
  active and enlightened local participation, and
  equitable sharing of benefits and
  responsibilities among stakeholders.

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Tourism and Poverty Alleviation
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"Were harnessing the wanderlust of the human
spirit and applying it to development," said
RESTs Peter Richards.

• Koh Yao NoiCommunity Based Eco-Tourism
  Club Thailand Responsible Ecological Social
  Tours (REST) Project

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Geo-Tourism on Fogo Island, Newfoundland

• The project will position the area as a world-
  class destination for cultural, ecological, and
  culinary tourism
• the project will stimulate economic activity in
  the area, provide employment and celebrate its
  natural and cultural heritage
• Key components of the project are an artist
  residency program and a five-star inn that
  features a conference centre, an art gallery and
  heritage library.

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Tourism and the working waterfront

• Who owns the waterfront?

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From Working to Leisure Seaside Communities

• Cordova, Alaska

• Falmouth, Massachusetts

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Working Waterfronts under Pressure from Tourism
and Residential Development

• Chandlers Wharf, Portland, Maine, USA

• Lobster Traps Expensive Apartments

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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES TOURISM VIKING VILLAGE,
NEW JERSEY, USA

•  Viking Village is a recipient of the 2005
  Governors Award for Excellence in Tourism for
  dock tours, craft and antique shows and other
  events that we host. integrate the working
  waterfront with the leisure waterfront.

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Changing Property Values -- Smart and Smarting
Growth

• Private Property
• Real Estate
• Businesses
• Communal and Public Property
• Access to Quality of Public Beaches and Waters
• Heritage and Identity
• Rights to Participate in Planning
• Ability to Resist Unwanted Developments and
  Restrictions

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Belford Seafood Coop 1948-
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Maine Coastal Villages --Stonington
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Working Waterfront

• Working Waterfront Access Pilot Program,

• Port Clyde Fishing Cooperative sold development
  rights to state, used funds to improve conditions
  for commercial fisheries

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The heritage of seaside tourism
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Amusement Park Heritage

• Coney Island History Project

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Public access and private property
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Public Access and Private Property

• Portland, Maine

• Falmouth, Massachusetts

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Taking Back What is Rightfully YoursThe Public
Trust Doctrine in Action
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Summary

• Loving it to death Tourism, Eco- and other
• Tourist-led development, false promises
  unintended consequences
• Leisure and the Working Waterfront
• Social class and the heritage of seaside tourism

• Private Property and Public Access
• Weathering the storms
• Who owns the seaside? The right to shape what
  happens to the coast?
• Shifting sands and multiple futures

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• The End Questions?