Exam 12: Visitor Management

Interpretation is often the tool used to educate visitors.

Broadening the selection of activities and experiences, or by encouraging visitors to arrive at less pressured moments in the day, week, month, or year is an effective way to reduce the total visitor impact to an area.

Constructing facilities and locating trails and roads to reduce the impacts of visitors on sensitive soils and vegetation, and to help meet the visitors' needs for usable access

For personal services to be effective, guides should do which of the following?

An audio messages that list expected behaviors is a form of:

The level of acceptable change within the local economy of a tourist destination that is described as the point at which the increased revenue brought by tourism development is overtaken by the inflation caused by tourism

A comparison of quantity and type of interpretation between sites

Visitors are more interested in hearing about people then about things.

Which of the following is a NOT an effective form of visitor management?

Reducing cruise ship access to ports is an example of:

A form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research

The best way to control visitor impacts is to manage the visitor experience.

One advantage of permanent signage within interpretation is:

The amount of use any given land or environment can endure over time without degrading its suitability for that use

An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by first-hand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply communicate factual information

Site hardening sacrifices certain areas in order to preserve other, more sensitive areas.

The process of developing mindful visitors