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International Show Caves Association
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| 1990 | ISCA founded in Genga. |
The International Show Caves Association (ISCA) is an organization based
at Grotta Grande del Vento in Genga, Italy.
It was founded by a small group of show cave operators to exchange informations
aboout cave management and cave restauration.
We at showcaves.com think an international
organization for show caves is a pretty good idea.
Unfortunately we have no idea what the ISCA does to earn this name.
We browsed their website and found the following facts:
- They charge pretty high member fees, several hundred Euros, which depend on
the number of visitors.
Although this seems to be a good idea, they have only two different fees, and
only tiny caves apply for the lower fee.
- They maintain a list of members.
This list is absolutely strange, as it does not offer any information on the
caves except the name and address, some don't even list the address.
On the other hand the list shows that they have only a few dozen members.
Compared to many thousand show caves on earth this is a pretty bad
percentage.
And several members are show mines, not show caves.
- They have impressive mission statements.
Unfortunately we did not understand them.
- They organize regular meetings, which take place at one of the member caves.
This meetings seem to be pretty cool, but we could not find any publications
on the web, so we guess they do not publish any proceedings.
After all, we have no idea what this organization does, and we guess it is
pretty useless.
We suppose an international show caves association should at least represent
half of the show caves, should publish karst management related papers, should
maintain a show cave registry and provide detailed information about all
members, on the internet and on paper.
A good thing to get more members would be lowering the fees.
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