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Figure 8.3 Sibayak crater
Note: Visitors have uncontrolled access to the crater floor where over time people have arranged rocks and stones into names, words and various
patterns

Planning for the management of protected areas The use of tourism planning
and natural attractions is essential to adequately
conserve a resource while at the same time frameworks in geotourism
making provision for appropriate uses (Worboys et Planning frameworks are designed to maximize
al, 2005). Cochrane (1996) reported that there are the quality of visitor experience and protect the
organizational and cultural barriers to effective natural environment in order to ensure future
visitor management in Indonesian national parks visitor satisfaction. Various planning frameworks
and natural areas. Such barriers are primarily have been developed in order to plan and manage
related to an absence of management planning, a visitor activity in natural areas (Newsome et al,
lack of resourcing, complex bureaucratic dealings 2002). All are designed to protect the environment
and inefficiency and the lack of skilled staff on the while providing opportunities for visitor use. The
ground. The application of a tourism-planning planning process involves establishing goals and
framework would go a long way in resolving the objectives, defining actions and implementing and
issues identified at Sibayak. A planning framework reviewing those actions. Planning frameworks
can be used to guide tourism management, foster commonly include several key factors. Each
sustainable tourism and preserve the natural process involves: identification of how visitors use
attributes of Sibayak. a natural area; where given uses take place within

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