Management Actions

The TOMM adaptive management system assesses information from the monitoring programs and compares these with the optimal conditions. The interpretation of this information allows stakeholders to identify problems, areas of opportunity and potential actions required to address these. the Management Committee then alerts government agencies or community groups to a desired course of action. 

Adaptive management is ultimately the most important element of TOMM as it generates tangible evidence of the TOMM process and ensures goverment agencies, community groups and individuals are kept informed and alert to potential tourism impacts. However, in practice, it is the hardest of the three components of TOMM to implement. 

Some adaptive management taken include the intitiation of a 'stay another day' program, research into the relationship between seal and visitor behaviour, an educational programme being developed to assit in managing the impacts of cars on the hooded plover.