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I am just out of a meeting with one of our destinations working for incresed sustainability at a destination level. Their destination is protected - and after that it became a Unesco World Heritage Site. They have slowly developed their tourism - and claims that a destination like theirs (rich cultural and natural heritage, 6.500 islands, several inhabited..) do need a visitor plan (where can people walk at what time of the year, how many etc. This have to be integrated in all cooperation with touroperators, the need for respecting this plan. The plan is of course based on carrying capacity of both natural and cultural heritage and gives a clear management of the visitors. I know quite advanced plans like tthis excists many olaces, but we have no developed and monitores system for such plans..
A visitor plan should (or is it already?) be integrated in the management plans for NP?
INgunn, Norway
