Tourism, recreation and sustainability : linking culture and the environment /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2008.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Ecotourism.; Tourism.; Sustainable development.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Culture.; Destinations.; Environment.; Management.; Recreation.; Socioeconomics.; Sociology of tourism.; Sustainability.; Sustainable tourism.; Tourism development.; Electronic books.
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This book is designed to illustrate many of the issues and approaches associated with sustainable tourism development, policy and research. Included are case studies of tourism development using both quantitative and qualitative methods, analytical frameworks for managing tourism and chapters addres...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : pathways and pitfalls in the search for sustainable tourism / Stephen F. McCool and R. Neil Moisey
• Recreation ecology in sustainable tourism and ecotourism : a strengthening role / Yu-Fai Leung, Jeffrey L. Marion and Tracy A. Farrell
• Ecotourism and nature-based tourism : one end of the tourism opportunity spectrum? / Chad P. Dawson
• Hypothesizing the shifting mosaic of attitudes through time : a dynamic framework for sustainable tourism development on a 'Mediterranean Isle' / Dimitri Ioannides
• Tourism, sustainability and the social milieux in Lake Superior's North Shore and Islands / R.J. Payne, Margaret E. Johnston and G. David Twynam
• Development and evaluation of sustainable tourism principles : the WWF Arctic Tourism Guidelines Initiative / Margaret E. Johnston and G. David Twynam
• From 'guiding fiction' to action : applying 'the natural step' to sustainability planning in the resort of Whistler, British Columbia / Alison Gill and Peter W. Williams
• Destination and place branding : a lost sense of place? / Ute Jamrozy and Jeffrey A. Walsh
• Withstanding the test of time : Yellowstone and sustainable tourism / Judith L. Meyer
• Community perspectives in sustainable tourism : lessons from Peru / Ross E. Mitchell
• Local participation and attaining sustainable tourism : a comparative study of Honduran ecotourism development / Katerina Horochowski and R. Neil Moisey
• Tourism and poverty alleviation : lessons from southern Africa / Dr Anna Spenceley
• Cultural inscriptions of nature : some implications for sustainability, nature-based tourism and national parks / Russell Staiff
• The attitudes of community residents towards tourism / Kathleen L. Andereck and Nancy Gard McGehee
• Tourism and indigenous peoples / Adam Trau and Robyn Bushell
• Sustainable tourism in the 21st century : lessons from the past, challenges to address / R. Neil Moisey and Stephen F. McCool.