Victorian National Parks had the potential to develop into outright
conflict as seen in previous debates which, in turn, led to the government
abandoning proposals (Anderson, 2000; Munro et al.,
2006). A valuable finding from the present study was that the
conflict was found to be based on an individual's perception of the
government's ability to regulate a tourism superstructure efficaciously.
Stakeholders in this study who perceived there to be weak
or inadequate government regulation guiding the process were
more likely to oppose the private sector building tourism superstructure
within a National Park.
This finding expands on previous