Park tourism is a large and important activity on which a substantial body of research work
has been published. This paper reviews that work in the light of the issues now faced by …

Visiting natural environments could restore health and contribute to human sustainability.
However, the understanding of potential linkages between restoration of visitors and nature …

This book examines worldwide ecotourism and sustainable development. Individual
chapters include: In search of the Golden Toad; The world travel industry-going'green'?; …

The new fifth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological
inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in theory and practice, and examines the …

This book provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of tour guiding scholarship and
research. It aims to foster best practice and to stimulate further study and research on tour …

Increasingly tourists are seeking learning and educational holidays. This interest has led to
the provision of tourism product with some form of learning or education as an integral …

This book is designed to give the reader a feel for the scope of, complexities arising from,
and possibilities of undertaking successful tourism developments in natural areas. Following …

Protected area managers, tourism providers, and other organisations commonly employ
education programmes to address visitation-related impairment of natural and cultural …

Ecotourism is a useful concept, but not a very well defined one. It has been debated in
theory and attempted in practice for nearly two decades. Its key goal is to reduce the net …

Purpose Tour guides play a significant role in sustainable tourism development as leaders,
mediators, resource managers and promoters of economic prosperity. This paper aims to …