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Today travel and tourism have evolved beyond an annual trip to the seaside. Long-haul flights around the globe are fully booked with both business and leisure travelers; health tourism is expanding exponentially and religious travel continues to support a significant portion of tourism in some countries. The age of mass tourism, whilst making travel affordable for all societal groups, has also created environmental problems on both a micro and macro level. A key question is therefore how can tourism be made more sustainable? Under the broad umbrella of sustainable development, this book examines sustainable tourism by taking into account factors such as media, business profitability, educational inclusiveness, political and community needs, medical tourism and aspects of sustainable labeling and marketing. Furthermore, each author offers perspectives on methods that industry and governments might employ to create more sustainable practices and policies. Contents · Environmental Responsibility & Climate Change · Cultural Vitality and Social Equity · Economics and Finance of Sustainable Tourism · Marketing, Media and Education · Barriers and Solutions Target Groups · Scholars and students of tourism research and study areas such as Tourism, Leisure Management, Sustainable Development, Green Business · Industry and practitioners in the above mentioned fields About the Editors Prof. Dr. Ian Jenkins is Research Director at Les Roches Gruyere University of Applied Science, Bulle, Switzerland. Prof. Dr. Roland Schröder is Dean of the Department of Media & Communication at BITS University of Applied Sciences, Iserlohn, Germany.
Ecotourism. --- Sustainability. --- Sustainable tourism --- Management --- Geography --- Business & Economics --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Travel & Tourism --- Management Styles & Communication --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Sustainability science --- Business. --- Business ethics. --- Business and Management. --- Business Ethics. --- Tourism --- Human ecology --- Social ecology --- Business --- Businesspeople --- Commercial ethics --- Corporate ethics --- Corporation ethics --- Professional ethics --- Wealth --- Moral and ethical aspects
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Nature protection --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Southern Africa --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:327.7H42 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Specifieke internationale organisaties en samenwerking: milieu --- Transfrontier conservation areas --- Biodiversity conservation --- Ecotourism --- Neoliberalism --- Parks, Peace --- Peace parks --- TFCAs (Transfrontier conservation areas) --- Transboundary conservation areas --- Protected areas --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Tourism --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Ecosystem management --- Conservation --- Transfrontier conservation areas - Africa, Southern --- Biodiversity conservation - Africa, Southern --- Ecotourism - Africa, Southern --- Neoliberalism - Africa, Southern
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Tourism economics is partly based on established principles from the economics discipline, but it also incorporates elements from sociology, psychology, organization theory and ecology. It has over the years turned into an appealing multi-disciplinary oriented approach to the understanding of the impacts of leisure time in a modern society, including cultural heritage, sustainable quality of life, and industrial organization of the hospitality industry. The increasing dynamics in the tourist industry and its worldwide effects will continue to attract the attention of both the research and the policy sector in the years to come. Rather than speculating on non-observed facts, there is a clear need for evidence-based research in order to map out the complex dynamics of the tourist industry. The present volume comprises novel studies – mainly of a quantitative-analytical nature – on the supply, demand and contextual aspects of modern tourism. It contains a sound mix of theory, methodology, policy and case studies on various tourism issues in different parts of the world.
Tourism -- Marketing. --- Tourism -- Research. --- Tourism. --- Tourism --- Leisure industry --- Management --- Sociology & Social History --- Business & Economics --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Management Theory --- Economic aspects --- Sustainable tourism. --- Leisure --- Economic aspects. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Green tourism --- Economic geography. --- Environmental economics. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Human geography. --- Economics. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Economic Geography. --- Human Geography. --- Environmental Economics. --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Geography. --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Environmental aspects --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Commercial geography --- Spatial economics --- Regional economics
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The recent passing of “Lonesome George,” the last remaining Giant Tortoise from Pinta Island in the Galapagos Archipelago of Ecuador, marks a sad farewell to yet another species from Planet Earth. The vulnerability of island ecosystems is particularly striking, especially given the expanding human imprint in many of these fragile settings and the corresponding risk of accelerated human development on native and endemic flora and fauna, many of which are iconic or emblematic species used to identify special places, like the Galapagos Islands, an internationally renowned Protected Area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In this volume, and the books to come as part of this Galapagos Series, we explore scientific approaches and conservation perspectives to address the challenges of social-ecological sustainability in island ecosystems, with a special emphasis on the social, terrestrial, and marine sub-systems of the Galapagos and their integrated and linked effects. In this initial volume, we include chapters from scientists, managers, and conservationists that explore contexts and explanations of historical, contemporary, and alternative futures for the Galapagos Islands to set the stage for more focused books in the Series on topics ranging from evolution, history of scientific engagement in the Galapagos, tourism and population migration, and marine ecology of the Galapagos Marine Reserve. While this book launches the Galapagos Book Series, it also offers a broad and exploratory statement of threats to the Galapagos Islands, such as invasive species and the direct and indirect impacts of human migration, as motivation for subsequent studies and books to benefit science and society in the Galapagos Islands, also with the goal of creating a global template to examine other similarly challenged island ecosystems around the world. .
Nature conservation -- Galapagos Islands. --- Restoration ecology -- Galapagos Islands. --- Sustainable biodiversity -- Galapagos Islands. --- Sustainable development -- Research -- Galapagos Islands. --- Island ecology --- Biodiversity conservation --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Geography-General --- Social aspects --- Social ecology --- Ecotourism --- Tourism --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Ecology, Social --- Environment, Human --- Human ecology (Social sciences) --- Human environment --- Economic aspects --- Geography. --- Ecosystems. --- Community ecology, Biotic. --- Nature conservation. --- Geography, general. --- Nature Conservation. --- Community & Population Ecology. --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Social sciences --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Ecology. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Conservation --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities
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