碩士 / 國立臺灣師範大學 / 環境教育研究所 / 99 / Surrounded by ocean and relatively isolation, small islands have long been internationally noted for their rich bio-cultural diversity; islands are also particularly vulnerable to outside disturbances which often results in the degradation of island environment and people’s living quality. In recent decades the promotion of island ecotourism often target a specific ecological resource to attract tourists for leisure purposes. However, how and what the local residents’ perceptions on their own island home when that will be provided to tourism? And at what level of their willingness to participate the ecotourism? These perspectives of understanding have often been ignored during planning process due to tourism planners often come from outside experts; the Wang-Ann Island of Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan is one of these cases. In this study, we tried to understand Wang-Ann Island local residents’ perceptions on island ecotourism and the target resource- green sea turtles. Applying interview questionnaires, we firstly asked about their“image upon home island”,“viewpoints on their island’s resources for tourism”, then asked their“perceptions on ecotourism”, and furthermore inquired their“image and experiences about the green sea turtle”and“the willingness/ ways to participate in the green sea turtles ecotourism”.
The result shows that, the main images of Wang-Ann Island for local people are about the harmony and peace of their island community and the beauty of ocean; non of answers mentioned about green turtle. Most residents have no idea on the concept of ecotourism, but the most recommended place for tourism is their cultural heritages represented on Chong-she village. Regarding to green sea turtle, there are much emotional connections with local people, but most people do not agree to use turtle as a target to promote ecotourism due to their worry on the disturbance from tourists on the turtles. For the participation, residents showed less interests in the current tourism development models, but they show high interests in participation if there are programs for interpretors’ training, sand beach protection stewardship, sea turtles protection and monitoring, or act as marine recreational activities guides. This study shows that although one of ecotourism emphasis is on local participation and community benefits, local perceptions on their island home often been ignored; planners need to be more awareness and understanding on local culture and local perceptions on tourism, and involve local participation during planning and operation process, thus to protect island nature and culture at the same time.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/099NTNU5587017 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Chang, Yung-Shiang, 張永祥 |
| Contributors | Tsai, Huei-Min, 蔡慧敏 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 156 |
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