The global tourism industry continues a trend of sustained growth, moving more people and generating domestic and foreign revenues, often at the expense of the social and ecological integrity of destination regions. As a result, tourism policy makers have been forced to consider a variety of new approaches to ensure that the environment, local people, tourists, and business remain unaffected by the negative impacts of the industry.
Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in tourism, geography and planning.
SECTION ONE - UNDERSTANDING ECOTOURISM POLICIES
Chapter 1 - Institutional arrangements for ecotourism policy,Michael Hall, University of Otago, New Zealand
Chapter 2 - Linking biodiversity and sustainable tourism policy,Chrostopher Holtz and Steve Edwards, Conservation International, Washington DC, USA
Chapter 3 - Culture, consumption and ecotourism policies,David Crouch and Scott McCabe, University of Derby, UK
Chapter 4 - Economic instruments of environmental tourism derived from environmental theories,Tanja Mihalic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
SECTION TWO - REGIONAL CASE STUDIES
Chapter 5 - Local government, world heritage and ecotourism: policy and strategy in Australia's tropical rainforests,Dianne Dredge, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia and Jeff Humphreys, Humphreys Reynolds Perkins, Planning and Environment Consultants, Brisbane, Australia
Chapter 6 - Processes in formulating an ecotourism policy for nature reserves in Yunnan Province, China,Trevor Sofield & Li, Fung Mei Sarah (Australia)
SECTION THREE - COUNTRY CASE STUDIES
Chapter 7 - Ecotourism development and government policy in Kyrgyzstan,Karen Thompson, University of Salford, UK and Nicola Foster, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Chapter 8 - Ecotourism development in Fiji: policy, practice, and political instability,Kelly Bricker, West Virginia University, USA
Chapter 9 - Ecotourism and protected areas in Australia,John Jenkins, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia and Stephen Wearing, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Chapter 10 - The scope and scale of ecotourism in New Zealand: a review and consideration of current policy initiatives,James Higham and Anna Carr, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Chapter 11 - Ecotourism policy and practice in New Zealand's national estate,Ken Simpson, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
SECTION FOUR - CONTINENTAL CASE STUDIES
Chapter 12 - Ecotourism management in Europe: lessons from the biosphere reserves in central and eastern Europe,Dimitrios Diamantis, Les Roches Management School, Valais, Switzerland and Colin Johnson, Ecole Hoteliere De Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Chapter 13 - A regional look at ecotourism policy in the Americas,Stephen Edwards, Conservation International, Washington DC, USA, and William MacLaughlin & Sam Ham, Department of Resource Recreation & Tourism, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
Chapter 14 - Ecotourism policy and issues in Antarctica,Thomas Bauer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China and Ross Dowling
Conclusions
David Fennell & Ross Dowling