EWB Challenge: Visitor Management on Indigenous Protected Areas

This report explores the complexities of visitor management within Indigenous Protected Areas, focusing on the challenges and benefits associated with tourism. It begins with an introduction to the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and its mission to create social value through engineering, particularly in the context of Indigenous Protected Areas. The report delves into the background of the community, highlighting the significance of protected areas in conservation strategies and the transformative potential of visitor experiences. It examines the economic aspects of tourism, emphasizing the dependence on healthy ecosystems and the need for proper management to ensure equitable distribution of benefits. Furthermore, the report identifies several challenges in the EWB challenge design, including the potential for exploitation of resources, the influence of political support, negative environmental impacts, economic disparities, and the undermining of good administration. The conclusion summarizes the importance of the selected area for research, acknowledging its distinct community ties and the potential for overcoming its challenges. The report includes references to relevant sources.

Running head: VISITOR MANAGEMENT
Assignment Title: VISITOR MANAGEMENT
Student name:
Student number:
Tutorial class:

1VISITOR MANAGEMENT
1. Introduction
The EWB that is the Engineers Without Borders, situated in the Australia, is the
community organisation which can create the social value via engineering
(Ewbchallenge.org. 2020). This organisation is concentrated on the skills of developing,
perfect solutions of engineering and the knowledge from the year 2003 via collaboration and
partnerships. The design area that is discussed in this report id the visitor management on
Indigenous Protected Areas.
2. Background: Community
The protected area is the major factor of any strategy of worldwide conservation. The
tourism offers the critical also distinct way of the connection of fostering visitors with the
values of protected area (Spenceley et al., 2015). The experiences of the visitors can be
transformative for the subjective growth also the comfort of any individual whenever
introducing the improved logic of the stewardship also the support for the principles of
protected area.
The research of this area is specific to communities, from which the Economic is
selected for discussing as this is the most relevant to the proposed design area.
Economic:
The economics benefits of the protected are tourism depend on the healthy nature also
the wildlife and the beautiful areas of the nature also the genuine cultures. The tourism in this
protected areas is the main part of this industry of worldwide whose impacts and the scale are
huge (Portals.iucn.org. 2020). This high volume of the visitors indicates definite necessities
for the basic substructure also the supplies for occupation and the human services, entirely of
that have consequences for economy, society, environment and culture. This component of

2VISITOR MANAGEMENT
management can structure to confirm that the costs also the benefits are rightfully circulated
such as via employing the native people also that is the practical portion of the welfares of
economic which is used for the preservation in this protected area.
3. Background: EWB Challenge Design
There are several challenges are noticed in the selected EWB challenge design that is
the visitor management on Indigenous Protected Areas (Rist et al., 2019). The challenges are
as follows:
i) This protected areas are simply became any other commodity or the resources to exploit by
any industry which is more interested in the revenues, access also offered the new
experiences than the associate conservation.
ii) The significance of this tourism that is based on the protected area is led to the support of
the politician support for the extreme development in or around this protected area.
iii) The negative influences on environment arise, for instance the pollution such as carbon
emissions, waste disposal, then the use of unsustainable resource like water and destruction to
the sensitive areas such as via poorly developed infrastructure (Leung, 2018).
iv) The progressive economic associations be unsuccessful to materialise because of the lack
of information, access to the finance, opportunity, consistency or acceptable policies.
v) The interests of tourism vigorously undermine the good administration by demanding for
practices, profits otherwise the access which are damaging to this preservation or traditional
objectives of this protected area.

3VISITOR MANAGEMENT
4. Conclusion
So the selected area that is the visitor management on Indigenous Protected Areas, is
a great selection for the research. The economics of this area is a distinct communities that is
mostly related to this area. This area has several challenges in it but this is removable.
5. References
Ewbchallenge.org. 2020. Design Area 2: Ict | EWB Challenge. [online] EWB challenge,
<https://ewbchallenge.org/design-area-2-ict> [Accessed 13 April 2020].
Leung, Y. F. (2018). Tourism and visitor management in protected areas: Guidelines for
sustainability. A. Spenceley, G. Hvenegaard, R. Buckley, & C. Groves (Eds.). Gland:
IUCN.
Portals.iucn.org. 2020. [online] Portals,
<https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/PAG-027-En.pdf>
[Accessed 13 April 2020].
Rist, P., Rassip, W., Yunupingu, D., Wearne, J., Gould, J., Dulfer‐Hyams, M., Bock, E. &
Smyth, D., (2019). Indigenous protected areas in Sea Country: Indigenous‐driven
collaborative marine protected areas in Australia. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and
Freshwater Ecosystems, 29, 138-151.
Spenceley, A., Kohl, J., McArthur, S., Myles, P., Notarianni, M., Paleczny, D., Pickering, C.
& Worboys, G.L., (2015). Visitor management. Protected area governance and
management, 715-750.