THT3111 Environmental and Cultural Tourism: Patagonia Case Study

This case study examines Patagonia National Park, focusing on its management, history, products and services related to environmental and cultural tourism, sustainability principles, unique aspects, and stakeholder involvement. Established through the efforts of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, the park aims to restore damaged grasslands and protect its extensive acreage. Tourism activities include rafting, kayaking, trekking, and wildlife viewing. The park's management emphasizes habitat restoration, threatened species recovery, and biodiversity protection, involving local communities and offering educational programs for children to foster conservation awareness. The park plays a vital role in the region's economic transition towards ecotourism from traditional sheep ranching, promoting both ecological and economic sustainability.

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Case study- Patagonia National Park
Name
National park Patagonia National Park
http://www.patagoniapark.org/parque_patagonia.htm
Management / Board It has been found that Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and Kristine
McDivitt Tompkins is president and CEO of the Tompkins conservation has
signed the decrees to form the Pumalin National park and Patagonia
National park Chile in the year 2018, January 29. In the year 2000, Kris
Tompkins found conservation Patagonia, an NPC in California took the
steps that helped him in protecting the interest of the Patagonia wildlife
and ecosystem. This has been found that in the initial year Kris
collaborated with the Doug and the conservation Land trust. Now, these
people are involved in the management of wildlife conservation.
Later on, the management put in efforts to form Pumalin park which is a
756,000 acre Nature sanctuary in the temperature rainforest of southern
Chile. Every year, the Doug travels the place with the motive to explore
Patagonia by foot, horseback and boat. In addition, they found the
ecological damages which made the Kris grow with the interest of
launching a program with the motive to protect and restore the
landscapes.
History The history of Patagonia reflects the first human inhabitants to reach
approx. 12,000 years ago from advance north in South America. The
inhospitable geography of far south that emphasis on the communities to
settle at one place instead of that they hunted guanaco and rhea or fished
and gathered shellfish in nomadic groups.
The name of the national park that is Patagonia group generates from
1521 when the Portuguese traveller Ferdinand Magellan landed on the
Atlantic Patagonian coastline to be the first person to circumnavigate the
globe. In the year 1860s, the Argentina government stated that they allow
the dissident Welsh property truths in the range of the coastline Chubat
province at the time of decades. At the same time, the government
promote the Scottish settlers to move to the steppes of Patagonia.
In the year 2000, Kris Tompkins found conservation Patagonia, an NPC in
California to work for protecting the interest of Patagonia’s wildlife and
ecosystems.
Products and Services The place is considered as one of the effective tourism places where the
family visit to understand the cultural values and to spend the time with
their families. The activities that the family is going to get in national park

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(Tourism) include rafting and kayaking, marble cave tour, Patagonia ice field trekking,
day hiking, wildlife viewing, backpacking, biking on the mountain.
All these activities can be performed by the visitors who visit the place.
Further, these activities are majorly offered by the visitors at the time of
the vacations and holidays.
Sustainability and
management
principles
Kris contributes in conserve the place for the future generation as they
love and care for the place as it is the part of their life. The vision that has
been formed for the national park is to get emerged as the future park for
which there is need of restoring the damage grasslands and to protect the
650,000 acre areas as this leads to form the develop durable and inspiring
public access infrastructure with the local economy spark that is majorly
based on the conversation. The park is dealing with the issue of
sustainability as observed by Kris. The mission of the Kris is to make the
new national parks that can manage the ecologically on the critical areas of
Patagonia. Considering the mission, the Kris grew with the launching of the
program who can work with the motive of protecting and restoring the
landscapes and ecosystem. The national parklands in Chile will enhance by
38.5% to account for 81.1% of chile’s protected areas.
The management practice that is leading to the sustainability includes the
project biologist work in which they park rangers to train them in the
wildlife for tracking and behaviour of the animal. Thus, the training
programs will help to conserve the national park.
In addition, the major sustainability principles which are followed by the
company include three major principles like habitat restoration, recovering
the threatened species and protecting biodiversity.
Unique/special,
because…
The unique value that has been found in the park inspires the awareness
and dedication among the youth and children to conserve the park and
their wildlife. The special part of the park is that it welcome the school
outreach program that bring the local children to park to learn more about
the endangered species present in the national park like huemul deer and
the potential community benefits that are gained through conservation.
The national park lies in a unique area where the ecosystem typical of
Argentine Patagonia ranges into Chile, fulfilling the pouring forests. Thus, it
is found that Unique ecotone reflects the area to restore and conserve for
sake of Patagonia's native fauna and flora.
Stakeholder
involvement
This has been found in the case study that there are involvement and
engagement of the community in protecting the land. In making the future
strong Patagonia National park communities aims to do more than protect
the land. Considering this that the park plays a vital role in region’s
economy transition from sheep ranching, a failure ecologically and

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economically for conserving and ecotourism. The involvement of the
children and supportive members of the local community work together to
protect the park.
In addition to this, the park communities are committed in training and
capacity building the essential to allow the local to benefit from the jobs
that are available in the park.