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Main Description

Sustainable tourism has become a very important concept as more and more countries develop tourist industries. This multi-author book examines the concept of sustainability and presents numerous case studies from both the developed and developing world in a variety of cultural, political and environmental contexts. The book documents the major challenges in implementing a sustainable tourism and recreation strategy and specifically considers the integration of cultural and environmental concerns in policy. Contributors include well known authorities from North America, Europe and Australia.

Readership

Policy makers, practitioners and academics working in sustainable and environmental tourism. Also graduates and advanced undergraduates interested in sustainable and environmental tourism and recreation policy.

Main Contents

Section 1: Integrating Environmental and Social Concerns over Tourism Development

• Introduction. Pathways and pitfalls in the search for sustainable tourism, S F McCool and R N Moisey
• The role of recreation ecology in sustainable tourism and ecotourism, Y-F Leung, North Carolina State University, USA, J L Marion and T A Farrell, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Virginia Tech Cooperative Park Studies Unit, Department of Forestry, Blacksburg, USA
• Ecotourism and nature-based tourism: one end of the tourism opportunity spectrum? C P Dawson, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, USA
• Sustainable development and the shifting composite of tourism stakeholders: toward a dynamic framework, D Ioannides, Southwest Missouri State University, USA
• Community forestry: countering excess visitor demands in England’s national parks, S Evans, Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford, UK
• Nature preservation, sense of place and sustainable tourism: can the ‘Yellowstone Experience’ survive? J L Meyer, Southwest Missouri State University, USA
• Responsible tourism with great apes in Uganda, C Litchfield, University of Adelaide, Australia

• Community perspectives in sustainable tourism: lessons from Peru, R E Mitchell, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Sustainable tourism: the effect of local participation in Honduran ecotourism development, K Hotochowski, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, USA and R N Moisey
• Self developed rural tourism: a method of sustainable tourism development, J B Lewis, Western Michigan University, USA
• Sense of place as a component of sustainable tourism marketing, J A Walsh, Lock Haven University, USA, U Jamrozy, Appalachian State University, Boone, USA and S W Burr, Utah State University, USA
• Casinos, communities and sustainable economic development, B Carmichael, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
• Expanding sustainable tourism’s conceptualisation: ecotourism, volunteerism and serious leisure, S Wearing and J Neil, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

• Evaluating achievement of sustainable tourism principles: the WWF Arctic Tourism Guidelines Initiative, M E Johnston, Lakehead University, Ontario and G D Twynam, University College of the Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada
• Ecotourism: a theoretical framework and an Indonesian application, S Ross, Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada and G Wall, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• The perceptions of tourists and residents of sustainable tourism principles and environmental initiatives, B C Kaae, Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute, Hoersholm, Denmark
• Tourism, sustainability and the social milieu in Lake Superior’s north shore and islands, R J Payne, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada and G D Twynam, University College of the Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada
• Sustainable tourism in the 21st century: lessons from the past; challenges to address, R N Moisey and S F McCool

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