Linking Tourism & Conservation (LT&C)
Seminar in Arendal
June 4-5 (6), 2010
The Seminar will build on the results of the LT&C-Arendal Seminar in 2007
(www.grida.no/...) and will give representatives from tourism, conservation and
investment sectors an international forum, where we develop answers on
1. Where are existing and potential examples, where tourism is supporting
marine protected areas ?
2. How will we define criteria for functioning cases of LT&C and thereby
relate to certification possibilities?
3. What are ways how existing and potential examples of LT&C can made
globally visible, used for learning, up-scaling, replication and investment.
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DRAFT AGENDA
Introduction
PETER PROKOSCH (Managing Director, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Arendal): What is
Linking Tourism and Conservation (LT&C) so far and how do we want to develop it
further?
1. Where are existing and potential examples, where tourism is supporting
marine protected areas?
STEIN TORE PEDERSEN (Executive Officer Tourism, Sysselmannen,
Longyearbyen/Svalbard): How has Svalbard developed further as a leading example,
where LT&C is functioning?
EGIL ROLL (Section for protected areas, Directorate for Natur Management,
Trondheim, Norway): Norway’s plans for new marine protected areas – Which MPAs
could potentialy qualify for LT&C?
STANISLAV FOMIN (Marine Program Coordinator, WWF Barents Sea Office
Murmansk, Russia): Arctic Protected areas in the Barents Sea region and their
potential for LT&C
HARALD MARENCIC (Head, Tourism, International Wadden Sea Secretariat,
Wilhelmshaven): In what way can Europe’s largest marine protected area, the
International Wadden Sea World Heritage, serve as an example, where LT&C is
happening?
OLIVER TYACK (Programme Officer, Islands, Ecosystem Management Programme,
IUCN, Gland): How is tourism supporting marine protected area plans on the
Seychelles and what are the specifics applying LT&C to the Small Developing Island
States (SIDS)?
CHARLES SHEPPARD (British Indian Ocean Territories Scientific Adviser, UK):
What role played / will play tourism in the establishment and development of the
Chagos Islands protected area, the World’s largest and new MPA? tbc
PASAN PRIYALAL GUNASENA (Director General, Central Environmental
Authority, Colombo, Sri Lanka): How can Sri Lanka develop LT&C examples with
the protection of mangroves and coastal zones? tbc
SANDRA ZICUS (International Antarctic Institute, University of Tasmania,
Australia): What is the potential in Antarctic waters for LT&C?
PAUL ARTHUR BERKMANN (Head, Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme, Scott
Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK): Can the present process on
developing MPAs in the framework of the Convention on the Conservation of
Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) positively be influenced by tourism?
WWF (ALLARD STAPEL,WWF Netherlands ?): Which of the WWF-supported
marine protected area projects could be related to LT&C? tbc
Speakers on other examples ?
Costa Rica ?
Madagaskar ?
Cap Verden ?
Banc d’Arguin/Mauritania ?
Abu Dhabi?
Kiribat?
1. . How will we define criteria for functioning cases of LT&C and thereby
relate to certification possibilities and other organizations?
OLIVER HILLEL (Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, Montreal,
Canada): How can LT&C be further defined and developed in order play a major
support role for future protected area targets in the CBD?
CHARLES ARDEN-CLARKE (UNEP-DTIE, Paris): The Global Partnership for
Sustainable Tourism: How is LT&C seen as a member and where can it produce
synergy with other members?
CATALINA ETCHEVERRY (Sustainable Tourism Manager, UN Foundation,
Washington, DC, USA): How can LT&C and TSC - as projects under the Global
Partnership for Sustainable Tourism - be linked and produce synergy?
SIEGFRIED WOLTHEK (Initiator of “NABUUR”, Netherlands): How can the
philosophy and mechanisms of Nabuur also applied to LT&C, and how can synergy
between both initiatives be produced?
NN (INNOVASJON NORGE): How could LT&C be applied in Norway ?
KRIS ENDRESEN / CECILIE SMITH-CHRISTENSEN (Nordic World Heritage
Foundation, Oslo): Assessing best praxis of tourism in UNESCO World Heritage
Sites: which sites have potential to become an LT&C case?
BURGHARD RAUSCHELBACH (....,GTZ, Eschborn, Germany): How and
following which criteria could LT&C be applied in development projects supported
by Germany ?
WWF (MEDITARANIEN/TURKEY/ GERMANY???): How to produce synergy
between WWF-tourism-related marine protected area projects and LT&C and which
projects could qualify?
Other presenters on certification and linking LT&C to the UNEP/UNESCO/UNWTO
tourism cooperation
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GROUP SESSION (World Cafe type) on defining LT&C Criteria -
2. What are ways how existing and potential examples of LT&C can made
globally visible, used for learning, up-scaling, replication and investment.
TOM SELÄNNIEMI (Senior Advisor to the Tour Operators' Initiative for Sustainable
Tourism Development, Finland): What are the examples and concepts of tourism
investment initiatives, which could be applied to LT&C?
NEEL INAMDAR (Head, Verde Ventures fund, Conservation International): What
can we learn from the CI tourism investment experiences for LT&C?
ARILD MOLSTAD (tourism advisor to NORFUND and part of National
Geographic’s Center for Sustainable Destinations): Why should the private industry
take interest in biodiversity conservation/tourism-related projects either via direct
investments or CSR-related programs – and how can development assistance play a
role.
LOUISA WOOD (Head, Marine Assessment & Decision Support Programme,
UNEP-WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE, WCMC,
Cambridge): How can functioning LT&C cases be made visible in the World
Protected Area Data Base?
JEAN-NICOLAS POUSSART (Marine GIS expert, GRID-Arendal): How can GRIDArendal make LT&C cases visible on global maps?
JUNE 6, 2010: Excursion Day and celebrating World Environment Day on Tromøy