Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism

From Principle to Practice in the New Millennium
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77491-682-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Advances in Hospitality and Tourism

At a time when the world is plagued with pandemics, natural disasters, wars, and resulting hardships, nature-based tourism is on the decline, disrupting essential funding streams for protected areas where biodiversity and human vulnerability are highest and at greatest risk, especially in Africa and Latin America. This new book, Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism: From Principle to Practice in the New Millennium, presents case studies from around the world that demonstrate the importance of nature-based tourism and sustainable development through tourism.

The book explores various areas of sustainable development goals (SDGs) that exemplify the contribution of sustainable tourism to cultural heritage, protected areas, and community benefits. It explains how ecotourism can benefit the economy and wildlife in a mutual manner. It also emphasizes the importance and benefit of involving local communities in tourism planning. The book sheds light on the role of tour guides in transforming tourism outlooks. Overall, the book explores the dynamic benefits and roles of local communities and ecology in great detail using case studies to demonstrate effective sustainable development models.

Key features:

- Includes timely case studies demonstrating sustainable tourism

- Offers strategies for addressing sustainable tourism issues and challenges faced from around the world

- Presents practical applications of sustainable development strategies through ecotourism

- Considers the impact of ecotourism on local communities

Covering both the economic as well as ecological benefits of tourism, this book brings a fresh perspective to sustainable tourism in the post-pandemic era. The book will prove valuable for tourism industry professionals, faculty and students in this field, as well as for relevant communities involved in eco-tourism planning.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bricker, Kelly S.

Kariithi, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL 1. Setting the Stage: Highlights of Former World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Tourism for Tomorrow Awards 2. Awamaki’s Women’s Empowerment and Economic Revitalization Programs PART II: CONSERVATION AND COMMUNITY 3. The Upper Navua River, Ecotourism, and Wetland of International Importance 4. Role of Adventure Programming for Shaping a Conservation Ethic and Connection Stuart 5. Building Networks to Support Community Tourism in the Lower Negro River Region of Brazil 6. Stakeholder Engagement and Community Participation: Mount Elgon Protected Areas, Western Kenya 7. Ecotourism Benefit Sharing Model Directly Linked to Community Wildlife Conservation Outcomes: A Case Study of Nam Et-Phou Louey National Park, Lao People’s Democratic Republic PART III: INNOVATION AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR 8. Community-Private Sector Partnerships in Namibia 9. Selling Community-Based Tourism in National Protected Areas of Brazil 10. Tour Guides as Transformational Leaders PART IV: CULTURE AND CONSERVATION 11. Community-Managed Heritage Sites in Protected Areas: Challenges and Opportunities Post-Covid-19: A Case Study of the Thingini Shrine in Mt. Kenya National Park 12. Engaging Local Communities in the Creation of Handcraft Souvenirs for the Mason River Protected Area, Jamaica

Über Autor(innen)

Kelly Bricker, PhD, is a Professor and Director of the Hainan University–Arizona State University International Tourism College, located in ASU’s Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. She is also a practitioner in ecotourism and a consultant. She has applied research experience in the subjects of ecotourism, visitor and protected area management, and the impacts of tourism. She has authored books on sustainability that highlight case studies in tourism that meet environmental and societal issues, such as Sustainable Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: Effecting Positive Change; on adventure education, such as Adventure Programming Travel for the 21st Century; and on graduate education, as in Demystifying Theories in Tourism Research. She serves on the board of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council as Vice Chair and on the Executive Committee of the Tourism and Protected Area Specialist Group of the IUCN. She completed her PhD at Penn State University, USA, where she specialized in sustainable tourism and protected area management.

Jacqueline Kariithi, PhD, is an environmental scientist passionate about conservation, tourism, and development issues. She is an interdisciplinary scientist broadly working on the intersection of conservation and development, specifically addressing community livelihoods. She is in the process of starting a research center on the Kenyan side of the Mount Elgon ecosystem, addressing mountain social-ecological systems with a holistic model, including research, observations, capacity building, and connections to policymakers. She holds a PhD in Environmental and Geographical Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Recently, she completed a postdoctoral research program in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.