Northern exposure: opportunities and challenges for tourism development in Torngat Mountains National Park, Labrador, Canada
ABSTRACT Torngat Mountains National Park (TMNP) is Canada's newest national park, and was established in 2005. The development of the park has mirrored a change in mandate for the agency that manages it, Parks Canada. Since 2005 Parks Canada has sought to focus on ‘proactively facilitate[ing] o...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247409990581 2024-03-03T08:48:07+00:00 Northern exposure: opportunities and challenges for tourism development in Torngat Mountains National Park, Labrador, Canada Maher, Patrick T. Lemelin, R. Harvey 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247409990581 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247409990581 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 47, issue 1, page 40-45 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2010 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247409990581 2024-02-08T08:41:26Z ABSTRACT Torngat Mountains National Park (TMNP) is Canada's newest national park, and was established in 2005. The development of the park has mirrored a change in mandate for the agency that manages it, Parks Canada. Since 2005 Parks Canada has sought to focus on ‘proactively facilitate[ing] opportunities for meaningful and memorable visitor experiences’, complimentary to maintaining the protection of ecological integrity and providing education (Parks Canada 2005, no page numbers). Under the auspices of this new multi-faceted mandate, this research note will examine the current state of tourism in TMNP, and will also evaluate some of the opportunities and challenges for the future. Within Parks Canada's Visitor experience vision 2015 statement, understanding tourism delivery in the present and future are important components of its mission, as is engagement with external partners to assist in this process. The analysis of tourism development in TMNP for this note comes from the authors' two week research trips to the park in August 2008 and July 2009, undertaken to assist Parks Canada to evaluate their current visitor experience activities and future options. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Torngat Mountains national park Cambridge University Press Canada Torngat Mountains ENVELOPE(-63.665,-63.665,59.000,59.000) Polar Record 47 1 40 45 |
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ABSTRACT Torngat Mountains National Park (TMNP) is Canada's newest national park, and was established in 2005. The development of the park has mirrored a change in mandate for the agency that manages it, Parks Canada. Since 2005 Parks Canada has sought to focus on ‘proactively facilitate[ing] opportunities for meaningful and memorable visitor experiences’, complimentary to maintaining the protection of ecological integrity and providing education (Parks Canada 2005, no page numbers). Under the auspices of this new multi-faceted mandate, this research note will examine the current state of tourism in TMNP, and will also evaluate some of the opportunities and challenges for the future. Within Parks Canada's Visitor experience vision 2015 statement, understanding tourism delivery in the present and future are important components of its mission, as is engagement with external partners to assist in this process. The analysis of tourism development in TMNP for this note comes from the authors' two week research trips to the park in August 2008 and July 2009, undertaken to assist Parks Canada to evaluate their current visitor experience activities and future options. |
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