Author : Martha Honey
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Offering an overview of worldwide ecotourism, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved, this book examines the growth of ecotourism within the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya and South Africa, their political systems and their economic policies.
Author : Richard H. Price
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Ecotourism
ISBN : 9781536107999
Ecotourism, an emergent aspect of tourism, is considered one of the fastest growing industries in the world. According to the Economic Commission for Africa (2011), ecotourism is a panacea for promoting environmental conservation, socio-economic development and improving the living conditions of local people as well as sustaining their culture and traditions. This book discusses new research on the management, opportunities and challenges of ecotourism and sustainable tourism.
Author : Ralf Buckley
Publisher : CABI
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 1845934571
"Focusing on fundamental ecotourism concepts, this broad-based textbook provides a basis for studies into environmental-based tourism. It covers key topics such as the management, economics, and potential environmental impacts, both positive and negative, of this popular and growing sector"--Publisher description.
Author : Anukrati Sharma
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429674783
Exploring the importance of destination branding and destination marketing as well as their implications on sustainability in tourism, this book approaches the topic through the lens of destination image, taking into account the large influence of appearance on tourist attraction. With consideration to various stakeholders in sustainable tourism development, this book incorporates ideas for new techniques in destination branding and marketing in order to maximize economic impact. The book also discusses the rising influence of social media on tourists’ interest. Emphasizing sustainability in tourism development, the chapters address a number of important issues, such as post-disaster tourism marketing, culture and heritage tourism, eco-tourism, community-based nature tourism, community involvement in destination development, benchmarking for destination performance evaluation, sustainable food practices in tourism, and more. Each chapter of this book incorporates a quantifiable trend in tourism development, including various paradigms and studies that relay different statistics about certain areas of tourism. The book makes use of case studies for specific destinations and integrates strategies, evidence, and analyses to offer a holistic understanding of the myriad factors involved in sustainable tourism development.
Author : Jim Butcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134161956
This topical book examines the advocacy of tourism as sustainable development in a range of NGOs and within the general literature. It offers a timely critique of key assumptions underlying ecotourism's status as sustainable development.
Author : Robert Fletcher
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081654011X
Despite its tiny size and seeming marginality to world affairs, the Central American republic of Costa Rica has long been considered an important site for experimentation in cutting-edge environmental policy. From protected area management to ecotourism to payment for environmental services (PES) and beyond, for the past half-century the country has successfully positioned itself at the forefront of novel trends in environmental governance and sustainable development. Yet the increasingly urgent dilemma of how to achieve equitable economic development in a world of ecosystem decline and climate change presents new challenges, testing Costa Rica’s ability to remain a leader in innovative environmental governance. This book explores these challenges, how Costa Rica is responding to them, and the lessons this holds for current and future trends regarding environmental governance and sustainable development. It provides the first comprehensive assessment of successes and challenges as they play out in a variety of sectors, including agricultural development, biodiversity conservation, water management, resource extraction, and climate change policy. By framing Costa Rica as an “ecolaboratory,” the contributors in this volume examine the lessons learned and offer a path for the future of sustainable development research and policy in Central America and beyond.
Author : David A. Fennell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134411359
Using a wealth of international case studies and photos, Ecotourism: An Introduction provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the key foundations, concepts and issues related to Ecotourism, the fasted growing segment of the global tourism industry. Among the topics covered are: * the foundations of ecotourism * tourism and ecotourism policy * the economics, marketing and management of ecotourism * the social and ecological impacts of tourism * ecotourism and development * the role of ethics in ecotourism The book includes case studies from Scotland, Austria, the USA, Canada, Mexico and Australia.
Author : Maharaj Vijay Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134626452
The concept of the green economy has now entered mainstream policy debates and been endorsed by a range of United Nations and other organizations. The Rio+20 UN conference specifically drew attention to the green economy approach in the context of sustainable development to move away from business-as-usual practices, act to end poverty, address environmental destruction and build a bridge to the sustainable future. It is increasingly recognized that the tourism sector can make a major contribution to the green economy through more sustainable practices, climate change mitigation and ecotourism. The role of tourism sector will continue to be crucial in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda too. However, there are ambiguities about how tourism and allied industries can maximize their contribution to human well-being and ensure environmentally sustainability, embracing issues of political economy, geography and business ethics. In this context, this book provides consensus about what the green economy entails, what role tourism can play in a green economy, early responses from many countries, on-going and emerging research initiatives that will enable tourism’s transition to a green economy. The chapters address three key themes: understanding the Green Economy concept and the role of tourism; responses and initiatives in greening tourism; and emerging techniques and research implications. A wide range of case studies from around the world and in different contexts is included to demonstrate the extent of the challenge and range of opportunities for the tourism industry.
Author : Ravi Shankar Kumar Singh
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Ecotourism
ISBN : 9788188683062
There are a number of definitions of word ecotourism people believe that ecotourism is an approach that creates a variety of quality tourism products and services that are environmentally, ecologically sustainable, economically viable, socially and psychologically acceptable.
Author : World Tourism Organization
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN :
The present compilation aims at providing a structured, easy-to-understand description of exemplary practices especially in small ecotourism businesses. The case studies contain rich details on methodologies and business approaches applied successfully by a wide range of ecotourism small and medium sized companies; they provide a valuable well of information that can serve for generating ideas and adapting sustainable ecotourism practices to the specific local conditions elsewhere.
