Identifying criteria and establishing parameters for forest-based ecotourism in Northern Ontario, Canada

Stephen W. Boyd; Richard W. Butler; Wolfgang Haider

Treesearch

Identifying criteria and establishing parameters for forest-based ecotourism in Northern Ontario, Canada

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Stephen W. Boyd, Richard W. Butler, Wolfgang Haider

Year:

1995

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1994 April 10-12; Saratoga Springs, NY.: Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-198. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 211-216

Download (PDF 533 KB)

Download (PDF 533 KB): https://research.fs.usda.gov/download/treesearch/12630.pdf

Abstract

This paper identifies the following criteria as indicators for ecotourism suitability within a Northern Ontario context: naturalness, wildlife, cultural heritage, landscape and community. A methodology is proposed which uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to identify ecotourism sites by linking criteria deemed important with actual landscape characteristics of Northern Ontario.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Citation

Boyd, Stephen W.; Butler, Richard W.; Haider, Wolfgang. 1995. Identifying criteria and establishing parameters for forest-based ecotourism in Northern Ontario, Canada. In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. Proceedings of the 1994 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1994 April 10-12; Saratoga Springs, NY.: Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-198. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 211-216