Wildlife in Theme Parks

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1. Introduction: The focus of this report is animals in captivity. Having animals in captivity is a subject which attracts many different opinions. This report will investigate the opportunities and problems of having wildlife in captivity, then analyse the positive and negative impacts of using animals for commercial purposes, it will also evaluate if it is responsible and sustainable tourism, and finally conclusions will be drawn and recommendations will be suggested. Senior tourism students have been assigned the task to investigate, analyse and evaluate the issue of animals in captivity. These students were able to collect information through interviewing, walking through dreamworld, and web research. The purpose of this report is to demonstrate an underpinning knowledge of a tourism industry opportunity or problem including the interrelationships of different impacts. The issues covered are the impacts of dolphins in captivity and may have been limited by the lack of investigation because the students were not able to compare different conditions and surroundings in different theme parks, this was also influenced by the lack of found and time. The investigation may have also been limited by the fact that there were no dolphins in dreamworld. 2. Methodology: The information about dolphins in captivity was obtained by a range of primary and secondary resources. The primary resources included the personal observations in dreamworld and the interviews with workers and guests at dreamworld. The data from primary resources may have been limited because the students were not able to interview many people and were sometimes distracted as they wanted to go on the theme park rides instead of collecting relevant data for the report. The secondary resource used was web research. The secondary resource may have been limited by the internet access limitations of

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