The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Caraga has conducted a Capacity Building on the Determination of Tourism Carrying Capacity for Ecotourism Sites on July 26-28, 2022 at the Grand Palace Hotel, Butuan City.

The 3-day activity is designed to capacitate the 33 technical personnel handling the protected areas, biodiversity and eco-tourism in the regional and field offices on the principles, concepts, and methodologies of tourism carrying capacity determination, including actual assessments and data gathering.

The learning event covered five modules that include the (1) overview of the Philippine Tourism Industry and the Basic Concepts and Principles of Carrying Capacity; (2) Biophysical Characterization which includes Biodiversity Assessment for underwater to cover coral, fish, seagrass/seaweeds and other marine organisms, and terrestrial to cover flora and fauna; (3) Vulnerability and Geo-hazard Assessment; (4) Socio-economic Survey to cover demographics, determination of sample size and how to conduct  the survey or interview; and (5) Computation of Carrying Capacity, specifically, physical, tourism and population carrying capacity.

To put their learning into practice, the participants were exposed to workshops and field exercises in an eco-tourism site located in Barangay Puting Bato, Cabadbaran City.

Resource persons during the capacity-building were Jose Isidro Michael T. Padin, Joselito T. Sumabat, Mr. Reynaldo L. Lanuza, and Ms. Chona M. Tura of Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau-Coastal Resources and Ecotourism Research Development and Extension Center (ERDB-CRERDEC).

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Published: 27 July 2022