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JORTH CONSULT LIMITED
About Us
Formed in 2000 by Andrew Sillitoe, Jorth Consult Limited is an environmental based company that offers a unique approach to tourism development by endeavouring to identify and address many of the cultural, environmental and ecological tourism concerns that threaten the validity of achieving tangible sustainable tourism development outcomes.
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Jorth Consult adopts an holistic approach taking into account the carrying capacity of the host destination whether at the local or national scale. The objective is to plan and manage tourism that achieves win-win outcomes for residents, visitors and the environment creating destinations that are robust and better able to adapt to changing circumstances and responsive to issues such as climate change.
Drawing on more than forty years experience, Jorth Consult works in both the urban and rural environment and has extensive experience in both tourism development and land use / landscape planning
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What We Do
Sustainable
Tourism
Planning
Every destination at whatever scale requires a tourism management plan to chart its direction. Achieving sustainable tourism requires balancing social, environmental and economic goals with providing memorable visitor experiences. Through tourism planning activities, Jorth Consult is able to provide a range of effective management services and explore solutions on behalf of our clients. The company draws on many years of experience in the industry and works effectively within the framework of ‘Triple Bottom Line Sustainability’ to balance tourisms economic agenda with the social and environmental agendas that underpin a destinations long term sustainable future.
Ecotourism planning lies at the heart of the companies activities. Jorth Consult has over twenty-five years experience developing ethical ecotourism plans and projects worldwide. Jorth Consult's services are wholly unique, as the companies expertise combines both ecotourism and ecological planning and management expertise, for example, many projects focus on formulating integrated ecotourism and protected area management plans, this provides Jorth Consult with a much deeper understanding of the issues involved introducing and developing tourism activities within sensitive ecological and cultural locations.
Ecotourism
Carrying
Capacity
Assessment
Increasingly the issue of carrying capacity is becoming a major concern in the tourism industry. Carrying capacity affects every destination whether at the national and city scale or resort and individual tourist site levels. Because of the complexity of the tourism market and its varied impact on a destination, the numerical assessment of visitor numbers is by itself no longer regarded as valid for carrying capacity assessment. Jorth Consult has extensive experience from national level through to site level capacity assessment using established evidence based methodologies. These methodologies include adoption of UNWTO indicators into the process thereby providing the basis for developing sustainable resource based tourism management plans.
Urban public spaces for recreation are now central to achieving green liveable cities for the future, with six out of ten people in the world living in cities by the end of this decade, improving and creating urban recreation space that fulfils the health and recreation needs of both city residents and visitors has become central to urban planning considerations. Jorth Consult's experience of planning and providing for urban green and blue infrastructure goes back forty years having been at the forefront of the ‘new urbanism’ movement to create green sustainable cities and urban spaces within the public realm. Within the company, there is extensive wide ranging experience, from the design of public parks and botanic gardens, improving connectivity by planning green infrastructure networks, non-motorised routes and recreation greenways, urban forests and wetland design and restoration through to greening sidewalks and improving urban drainage by establishing sponge parks and bioretention swales.
Urban
Recreation
Spaces
Placemaking actions shape the image and imaginability of a destination. Every flourishing tourist destination comprises a mix of tangible elements such as historic city buildings or natural area plants and animals and intangible elements such as culture, history, traditional stories enhanced by the visitor’s imagination. Together these form the basis of the ‘vacation-scape’. By drawing on landscape planning, interpretation and urban design background, Jorth Consult can offer the range of skills required to assist our clients in creating unique and memorable visitor places and experiences whether in the urban or rural environments.
