The Shark Reef Marine Reserve: a marine tourism project in Fiji involving local communities
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The Shark Reef Marine Reserve: a marine tourism project in Fiji involving local communities
The Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji is an ecotourism project designed to protect a small reef patch and its fauna while preserving the livelihood of local communities. It involves the local communities by using a participatory business planning approach to Marine Protected Area management, generating income through diver user fees, distributed to the local villages that have exchanged their t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Sustainable Tourism
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0966-9582,1747-7646
DOI: 10.1080/09669580903071987