Nature-based tourism and conservation
Subtitle: new economic insights and case studies
By: Clem Tisdell and Clevo Wilson
Contributors: Wilson, Clevo
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781848448674; 9781781005163
Subjects: Ecotourism
Description: Nature-based Tourism and Conservation unearths new or neglected principles relevant to tourism and recreational economics, environmental valuation and economic theory. Its three parts have chapters on nature-based tourism and its relationships to conservation including case studies dealing with the consequences of World Heritage listing of natural sites, Antarctic, subtropical and tropical national park-based tourism and an NGO's conservation efforts modelled on ecotourism. The final part focuses on tourism utilizing particular wildlife, including sea turtles, whales, penguins, royal albatross, glow-worms and tree kangaroos.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Background; title: pt. 2. Tourism, protected areas and nature conservation; title: pt. 3. Particular wildlife species or groups of species as tourist attractions; title: pt. 4. This study in retrospect.