Social and environmental impacts, responses and indicators are reviewed for the
mainstream tourism sector worldwide, in five categories: population, peace, prosperity …

This book explores the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a
conceptual link between the interconnected disciplines of tourism studies and development …

Authentic intangible cultural heritage (ICH) provides a community with a unique selling point
in the globally competitive tourism industry. The process of commodification of ICH …

Two rich knowledge domains have been evolving along parallel pathways in tourism
studies: sustainable tourism (ST) and community-based tourism (CBT). Within both lie …

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 …

Examine cultural tourism issues from both sides of the industry! Unique in concept and
content, Cultural Tourism: The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage …

Sustainable tourism has become an increasingly popular field of research since the late
1980s. However, the sustainable tourism debate is patchy, disjointed and often flawed with …

Despite the significant attention paid by tourism academics and practitioners to sustainable
tourism development in recent years, there has been a consistent failure within the tourism …

The purpose of this study is to develop indicators to measure community tourism
development (CTD) within a sustainable framework. In order to develop such objective …

As sustainability has become an important policy issue in tourism, it is arousing growing
discussion and criticism, and an increasing need to understand the nature of the limits of …