Title: Park Management, Tourism and Indigenous People
Abstract: Despite decades of international efforts towards involving indigenous and traditional peoples in protected area management, there are few successful examples [1]. This seems to be even clearer in multifunctional protected areas, where in some cases the social and cultural dimension of sustainable development can be even more valued than the economic or the environmental dimensions. Therefore, the paradigm that conceived protected areas essentially as instruments for environmental conservation is being somehow replaced, at least in Europe, by the idea that protected areas are primarily instruments for the integration of environmental conservation with regional and local (economic) development [2]. An evolution of this type has also occurred with Australia’s parks.