B. Bynum Boley
My name is Bynum Boley and I am an Associate Professor of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management (PRTM) within the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia.
My research interests largely focus on sustainable tourism with a specific interest in the unique natural and cultural resources of tourism destinations. These innate natural and cultural features interest me because I see the sustainable management and marketing of them as being vital to two of the primary goals of tourism development: 1) the ability to effectively attract tourists and achieve a competitive advantage and 2) having residents that are proud and supportive of the tourism industry within their community. I am also interested in how this increased attention to the economic and non-economic value of the destination’s unique natural and cultural resources translates into policy and management decisions influencing sustainable development.
My research has been primarily conducted in the Crown of the Continent region of Montana, Alberta, and British Columbia and in three rural communities along the Blue Ridge Parkway in southwest Virginia. This research has resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications that can be found in journals such as the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, Tourism Geographies and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education.
My research interests largely focus on sustainable tourism with a specific interest in the unique natural and cultural resources of tourism destinations. These innate natural and cultural features interest me because I see the sustainable management and marketing of them as being vital to two of the primary goals of tourism development: 1) the ability to effectively attract tourists and achieve a competitive advantage and 2) having residents that are proud and supportive of the tourism industry within their community. I am also interested in how this increased attention to the economic and non-economic value of the destination’s unique natural and cultural resources translates into policy and management decisions influencing sustainable development.
My research has been primarily conducted in the Crown of the Continent region of Montana, Alberta, and British Columbia and in three rural communities along the Blue Ridge Parkway in southwest Virginia. This research has resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications that can be found in journals such as the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Travel Research, Tourism Management, Tourism Geographies and the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education.
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provide the needed means to influence large-scale resource management
changes, research has yet to identify which conservation initiatives
DMC members find important and would likely implement.
Therefore, we performed an Importance-Likelihood Analysis to ascertain
which conservation initiatives DMC members find important and
their likelihood of carrying out these initiatives. Results from our survey
of 459 DMC members across 5 U.S. states found that the conservation
initiatives of “increasing days spent on habitat management” and
“managing habitat for species other than white-tailed deer” fell within
the “Keep up the Good Work” quadrant. The conservation behavior of
“enrolling in government cost-share programs” fell in the “Hard Sell”
quadrant, and the initiatives of “becoming members of conservation
NGOs,” and “increasing money spent on habitat management” fell in
the “Communicate Value/Importance” quadrant. Thus, managers gain
insight to improve the likelihood of users implementing a given conservation
behavior.