The academic study of adventure tourism is rapidly increasing in popularity, with research
beginning to focus on it heavily. This book is a cohesive and comprehensive look at this …

Coastal ecosystems are amongst the most productive ecosystems in the world. Reef-based
tourism, one of the multiple uses in coastal zones, has become more important in terms of …

This book examines, from the angles of environmental sustainability and leisure
consumption, a modern leisure phenomenon which we call nature challenge activity (NCA) …

Adventure experiences are most often examined from a position that seeks to understand
interpretations of risk and uncertainty. This paper has adopted an alternate view in seeking …

This article presents evidence for a new facet of our understanding of why scuba divers
pursue their interest so fervently and are willing to travel to do so. The perennial question of …

This study sought to gain an insight into the sociodemographic characteristics, motivations,
and attitudes of divers to Chuuk Lagoon (Federated States of Micronesia). It did this by …

Purpose Recreational scuba diving is one of the fastest growing tourism industries around
the world and has become a popular activity in Taiwan. Few studies focus on enduring …

Competitive advantage arises from a superior value that, rather than delivered by suppliers,
is co-created by tourists. Using a set of destination competitiveness attributes, this study …

abstract Marine ecosystems provide goods and services for human well-being, and many of
them correspond to cultural ecosystem services (CES). In Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) …

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