Dr. Thiago Beraldo Souza is the Chair of the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播/WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group (TAPAS Group). Thiago has a PhD in Ecology from the University of Florida where he studied ...
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香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group
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Description:
The Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group works on providing a platform for protected area practitioners and others, where expertise and knowledge are shared, sustainability awareness is ...
Leadership de groupe
Dr Thiago BERALDO SOUZA
Chair
Dr. Thiago Beraldo Souza is the Chair of the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播/WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group (TAPAS Group). Thiago has a PhD in Ecology from the University of Florida where he studied attractiveness, supply and demand of tourism in protected areas. Dr. Souza is one of the authors of the new TAPAS guideline - Visitors Count! He worked 18 years for the National Protected Areas Agency of Brazil - Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) and is currently working as consultant for countries like Cape Verde (NDP), Uzbekistan (UNWTO), Albania (香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播) and the Red Sea. In 2019, Dr. Souza received the National Tourism Award from the Ministry of Tourism as Best Public Manager of Brazil.
Publications: https://florida.academia.edu/ThiagoBeraldo
Prof Kelly BRICKER
Kelly Bricker, PhD is Professor, Director of HAITC at Arizona State University. She completed her Ph.D. with the Penn State University, where she specialized in sustainable tourism and natural resources management. She has applied research experience in ecotourism, protected area management, and impacts of tourism. She has authored books on sustainability, highlighting case studies that environmental and societal issues related to tourism development.
Kelly Bricker, PhD is Professor, Director of HAITC at Arizona State University. She completed her Ph.D. with the Penn State University, where she specialized in sustainable tourism and natural ...
The priorities of the TAPAS Group are to contribute to the work of the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 and WCPA to: (1) conserve biodiversity, (2) generate knowledge, (3) build awareness and (4) improve governance and equity.
The objectives of the TAPAS Group are to:
- Strengthen the capacity, effectiveness and performance of protected area managers and policy makers and others in relation to sustainable tourism, through learning, exchange and the development of information and guidance.
- Provide an interactive forum for individuals working on protected areas and tourism, enabling strategic networking, communication, collaboration, inspiration, and partnerships.
- Provide strategic advice to protected area authorities, the tourism industry, and other stakeholders on the optimum approaches to sustainable tourism planning, development, management and monitoring in protected and natural area destinations.
- Build awareness and understanding of sustainable tourism and protected areas by developing and disseminating knowledge, including case studies and best practice syntheses.
- Enhance the level of tourism鈥檚 contribution to the goals of protected areas and protected area systems including biodiversity conservation, human well-being, resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Support WCPA in accordance with its Terms of Reference for Specialist Groups and Task Force leaders and other 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Commissions and 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 members as well as other networks and partners.
- Foster dynamic, innovative and sustainable solutions for financing and managing protected areas in relation to sustainable tourism.
Group Executives聽
- Biodiversity coordinator - Ronda Green
- Economics coordinator - Cher Chua Lassalvy
- Communities and heritage coordinator - Kelly Bricker聽
- Knowledge Development - Ante Mandic聽
- Capacity building - Ani Chaoji
- Membership and communications coordinator - Liliana Medina-Toro
- 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Secretariat focal point -聽Ulrike Aberg