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Socio-Economic Effects Of Dolphinariums On Small Island Destinations

The Socio-Economic effects of dolphinariums on small island destinations


By:
Joanne Armantrading
&
Stefan Oosterwaal

International Management & Business Research Methodology
University of Aruba
2008

Table of contents
Intro 3
Literature Review 6
Conceptual Model 11
Stakeholders 14
Hypotheses 21
Research Design 23
Secondary data analysis 27
Primary data 30
Conclusion 37
References 38

Introduction
There has been a lot of talk about whether there a dolphinarium should be established on the island of Aruba. There has been a lot of controversy from the side of the community. Animal Rights Aruba and Aruba Marine Mammal Foundation are just some of the organizations that have expressed their feelings about this matter. They are not afraid of voicing their opinions, and their opinions are not always positive when it comes to building a dolphinarium on Aruba.
The idea of a dolphinarium on Aruba is not highly appreciated. Why not? Most people will tell you that it is a form of animal abuse. Keeping animals in captivity and training them just to amuse humans is immoral. However, we are not going to look at the biological or ethical side of this matter, we are going to look at the impacts that a dolphinarium might have on our community.
Are there positive impacts, are there negative impacts? Will these impacts be social, economic, environmental or all of them? This is what we want to know. We would like to get an answer to some of the questions that arise about a dolphinarium on Aruba.
There are different islands in the Caribbean that do have a dolphinarium. The statistics of these islands can be of important value for us to see what can happen to us once we have a dolphinarium on the island.
The visitor arrivals in Aruba normally are above the 1.000.000 per year, these people arrive by either airplanes or cruises. As soon as people set foot on...