4.4. Workable actions to management priorities
A series of potential actions under each management option were proposed and compiled in Table 5. These actions serve as a guideline for managers to make necessary changes in their ways of managing and maintaining the beach environment and recreation quality. While the options not rated with scores significantly greater than 3 were not under discussion, the option of ‘beach spatial planning to manage different uses’ had particular attention in focus group discussions. This option is important to beach quality and quite relevant tosafety, particularly at a beach where non-complementary water-based activities exist [36]. At Baisha, conflicts between incompatible activities may not be an issue, since most visitors were engaged in non-motored activities and only a small few in motored ones, and those motored ones always took place far beyond the water area where non-motored ones did. This indicates beach spatial planning might not be a priority for the time being. But it may become an important item as more and more incompatible activities occur at the beach