ABSTRACT
Last chance tourism is a “niche tourism market where tourists explicitly seek vanishing landscapes or seascapes, and/or disappearing natural and/or social heritage” (Lemelin et al. 2010: 478). Many people will want to see such attractions today if there is a chance they will be irreversibly gone in the future. In order to understand, accommodate, and manage the interests and behaviors associated with last chance tourism, one must explore a complex set of interactions among the provision of information, offering of tourism products, personal decision making, and management of the tourism resources. Last chance tourism has been analyzed for tourism opportunities threatened by climate change (Becken and Hay 2007) and many other forces (Addison 2008; Hughes 2008). Analyses are needed for other tourism opportunities facing similar declines.
