caa a22 4500 388024348 CHVBK 20180307124933.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0032247400015230 doi S0032247400015230 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0032247400015230 Research on shipborne tourism to the Ross Sea region and the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands [Elektronische Daten] An ongoing programme of tourist survey research, conducted since the 1990/91 summer season, is summarised. While focusing initially on the nature reserves of the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands, the programme was subsequently extended to encompass related tourist visits to Macquarie Island (Australia) and the Ross Sea region of Antarctica. In accordance with expressed management information needs, the research objectives and the methodology, based on questionnaires distributed by national representatives aboard tour vessels, have evolved from general descriptive visitor surveys to more site-specific visitor assessments. Research findings emphasised that these tourists constitute a distinctive activity group. The impact issues they reported were mainly related to trampling and some site-specific wildlife disturbance, with other impact issues not being prominent. No notable dissatisfactions were apparent or visit improvements demanded, and strong support was indicated for most of the management restrictions applied to onshore visits. Methodological lessons from conducting this survey programme are briefly summarised, and suggestions for future research directions are made, with more emphasis on post-voyage evaluation surveys and assessments of physical impacts related to tourist visits. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Cessford Gordon New Zealand Department of Conservation, Conservation Sciences Centre, PO Box 10-420, 58 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand Dingwall Paul R. New Zealand Department of Conservation, Conservation Sciences Centre, PO Box 10-420, 58 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/189(1998-04), 99-106 0032-2474 34:189<99 1998 34 POL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400015230 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400015230 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cessford Gordon New Zealand Department of Conservation, Conservation Sciences Centre, PO Box 10-420, 58 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dingwall Paul R. New Zealand Department of Conservation, Conservation Sciences Centre, PO Box 10-420, 58 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Polar Record Cambridge University Press 34/189(1998-04), 99-106 0032-2474 34:189<99 1998 34 POL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge