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Figure 8.6 Route plan for the Wave Rock Walk Trail in Western Australia
Note: The panel orientates visitors to the site, provides an indication of what may be seen and highlights the location of stopping points where
interpretive panels explain the geology and landscape.

Conclusion Sustainable tourism can be achieved through
Sibayak is a significant geotourism resource with the application of a suitably crafted tourism-
planning framework. The planning process
no management support and urgently in need of involves establishing goals and objectives, defining
funding to manage tourism sustainably. Important actions and implementing and reviewing those
attributes of the volcano are landscape views, actions. Planning frameworks commonly include
fumeroles and the crater walls and floor. Current several key factors. Each process involves:
visitation and tourism activity is degrading the identification of how visitors use a natural area;
natural features and authenticity of Sibayak. where given uses take place within the area;
Identified impacts are trail degradation, user an inventory of ‘natural assets’; identification
created trail proliferation, unrestricted access of possible or existing impacts and establishment of
resulting in erosion scars, modification of the standards and indicators for future monitoring
crater floor, litter and graffiti. There is no ranger of visitor activity and impacts, and the assessment
presence, no trail maintenance, poor signage and a of management effectiveness.
lack of interpretation. The long-term sustainability Obtaining reasons for tourists visiting a site,
of tourism is dependent on sustainable trail gauging visitor motivations and preferences, and
management (track repair and maintenance; soliciting views on management provides essential
additional signage), removal of graffiti, restoration data for the development of a planning framework.
of the crater floor and on-site interpretation.

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