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Being part of the Brecon Beacons National Park, the Geopark has to follow and agree to the idea of supporting sustainable tourism. The Brecon Beacons National Park has worked with the other National Parks in Wales, (Pembrokeshire Coast and Snowdonia) to agree a common strategy towards sustainable tourism.
The ‘Position Statement’ document found at http://www.nationalparkswales.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/352505/sustainable_tourism._position_statement.pdf mentions four principal factors driving the development of genuinely sustainable tourism within National Parks:
1. To reduce the loss of tranquillity, environmental erosion and pressure on the man-made infrastructure that was originally built for small populations.
2. To resolve transportation problems – carbon emissions from vehicles, disturbance or damage caused by numbers of vehicles exceeding the capacity of specific locations, parking issues, charging for access or parking, lack of access by public transport in many areas.
3. To reduce the negative impacts of large-scale development, including disturbance to local communities, loss of local services and the leakage of funding away from small-scale local operators to support large-scale developments.
4. To resolve conflicts, real or perceived, between the National Park purposes and tourism-related activities. The nature of open country and coastal tourism makes certain activities very hard to manage directly. To be sustainable, the capacity of an area to maintain an activity needs to be given suitable consideration by tourism and activity companies.
Evidence Log 3 - Re-writing the 4 factors
Re-write the four factors above into simple statements. Record your statements on the Evidence Log.