Tourism investors and operators are major
stakeholders in the MMNR, and their advice and
viewpoints
need to be regularly solicited by management in
order to capitalise on the area’s tourism potential, and
to
successfully implement several of the management
actions set out in this plan. This group of stakeholders
is
also particularly well placed to advise MMNR
management on key issues that may be impacting on the
quality
of the tourism product in the area, and on
specific untapped tourism opportunities that
management
could take advantage of. The Mara Conservancy has
already been holding periodic meetings with
investors
and operators in the CCTM section of the MMNR and
surrounding areas. Under this management
action,
this will in future be complemented by a single,
comprehensive MMNR tourism stakeholders’ forum,
which
will be held on an annual basis. This will be open
to all tourism stakeholders who use the MMNR, and
will
aim to improve general awareness of management
successes and challenges during the previous year, to
inform
stakeholders of anticipated works over the next 12
months, and to enable them to provide feedback
on
key issues that they feel MMNR management should
be addressing. During the early years of plan
implementation,
this forum may need to be convened on a more
frequent schedule, in order to raise awareness
of
new plan prescriptions and of the changes that
plan implementation will bring about.
