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The purpose of this paper is to examine a model for conceptualizing the impacts of environmental management strategies on travel and recreation choice making behavior that considers tolerance thresholds in visitor responses to destination change.

A survey involving a sample of 347 regular campers and fishers in the Ningaloo Marine Park, Australia, is analyzed to discern the effect of tolerance thresholds.

Despite widespread dissatisfaction with enlarged sanctuary zones and negative impacts on recreational activities, visitors indicated a high level of satisfaction with their stay. This apparent contradiction is, it is argued, best explained by the threshold of tolerability concept.

It is argued that recreational users, planning authorities and other stakeholders have a threshold of tolerability in terms of decision‐making concerning management changes. These thresholds mean that changes in management policies, modes of activity and destination travel choices are rarely predictable in their effect, but are bounded by minimal and ideal expectations of destination appeal.

The paper introduces an important concept for tourism research that will aid tourism planning and management authorities in the face of growing environmental pressures caused by overpopulation and climate change.

Managers as Actors Those of us who manage are playing on an organisational stage every day. We enter early every morning to take up our roles, whether it is as chief executive, marketing manager, personnel adviser, production executive or any of the numerous other roles that have to be performed if work is to be done effectively.

Additions for use in polyurethane coatings. Angus Chemie GmbH has announced the introduction of two new additions to its product line for polyurethane coatings. Zoldine RD‐20 Reactive Diluent is designed to replace higher viscosity polyols in high solids polyurethane coatings. Zoldine MS‐Plus Moisture Scavenger eliminates bubbles, pinholes, downglossing and hazing in polyurethane coatings to allow for fast cure times in all types of weather.

The Croxton + Garry (C+G) Melton Whiting Plant is the largest calcium carbonate production unit within the Croxton + Garry Group, as well as one of the biggest U.K. producer of this type of mineral. It is the second plant to achieve registration to BS 5750: Part 2:1987 and ISO 9002 — 1987, the internationally recognised standards for quality assurance and control.

Marley Floors Ltd, based at Maid‐stone, Kent has adopted the Heraeus Xenotest 150S light and weather fastness tester as a research and development tool for assessing the colour stability of materials such as the Marley range of cushion vinyl floor coverings.

BASF Lacke + Farben AG, Muenster (Federal Republic of Germany) and Tanabe Chemical Industries Co Ltd., Osaka (Japan) have established a joint company for the sale of OEM automotive paints. THe agreement was signed in Osaka by Hrimata Tanabe, President of Tanabe Chemical Industries, and Dr Juergen F Kammer, member of the Board of BASF Lacke + Farben AG.

Pearson Panke, the agents for Erichsen and other test equipment announce they have been appointed as the UK distributors for the Datapaq Tracker.