GAME FARM AND HUNTING TOURISM
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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AFRICAN SUN MEDIA.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION TO GAME FARM TOURISM
- Contents
- Introduction
- History of game farms
- Stage 1: 1652 until the end of the 19th century
- Stage 2: Post-Anglo-Boer War until 1960
- Stage 3: 1960 up to the present
- The rising importance of game farm tourism
- Defining concepts
- Hunting as tourism product
- Four pillars of game farm tourism
- Breeding game (rare/endangered species)
- Hunting
- Game farms/reserves as ecotourism attractions
- Game products
- Value chain for hunting
- Impact of hunting tourism
- Economic
- Ecological
- Socio-cultural
- Positive impacts and advantages of hunting tourism
- Hunting tourism benefits conservation
- Hunting tourism has a positive impact on nature
- Hunting tourism creates job opportunities
- Hunting tourism offers entrepreneurial opportunities
- Hunting tourism develops infrastructure
- Hunting tourism generates foreign currency
- Hunting tourism has a multiplying effect
- Hunting tourism stimulates other trades
- Hunting tourism broadens education
- Hunting tourism reinforces preservation of heritage and traditions
- Hunting tourism enhances an appreciation of cultural traditions
- Hunting tourism may lead to visual and structural changes
- Negative impacts and disadvantages of hunting tourism
- Leakages
- Alcohol misuse by hunting tourists
- Seasonality of hunting tourism
- Unethical practices in hunting tourism
- Biodiversity
- Increase in hunting prices
- Increase in land value
- Hunting tourism impacts on animal behaviour
- Impacts involving direct killing or injury of animals
- Economic impact of hunting
- Conclusion
- References
- 2. GAME FARM PLANNING
- From a Tourism Perspective
- Contents
- Introduction
- The four pillars of the game farm industry
- Breeding game
- Hunting
- Game farms/reserves as ecotourism attractions
- Game products
- Acquisition of an existing game farm or conversion of a commercial farm into a game farm
- The conversion from stock farm to game farm
- Buying an already existing game farm
- Size and shape of the farm
- Biomes of South Africa
- Location
- Infrastructure
- Roads
- Water
- Game
- Carrying capacity and environmental sensitivity
- Disease control regions
- Expansion possibilities
- Aesthetics
- General aspects
- Planning a game farm
- Spatial development and environmental legislation
- Environmental legislation
- Application procedure
- Game fences
- Non-electric fences
- Electric game fences
- Water
- Components
- Water needs of game
- Drinking regularity
- The ecological influence of game on the utilisation of water points on a game farm
- The influence of tourists on water points
- Behaviour at water points as a result of predators
- The design and location of water points
- Building earth dams
- Water points and the control of grazing lands, diseases and parasites
- Roads
- Tourist roads
- Fire belts (firebreaks or fire paths)
- Hunting roads