Tourism and protected areas : benefits beyond boundaries : the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress / edited by Robyn Bushell, University of Western Sydney, Australia and Paul Eagles, University of Waterloo, Canada.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 349 pages) : illustrations, map, chartsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- Ecotourism -- Congresses
- Heritage tourism -- Congresses
- Protected areas -- Congresses
- Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000)
- Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000)
- Land Resources
- Tourism and Travel
- Conservation
- Conservation areas
- Environmental management
- National parks
- Nature tourism
- Sustainability
- EE115
- EE119
- PP300
- UU700
- 338.4/791 23
- G156.5.E26 T66 2007eb
Selected papers presented at the IUCN World Parks Congress, held in Durban, South Africa, September 2003.
This book focuses on the tourism issues discussed at the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress. The book reflects the past 10 years of global challenges in tourism and the lessons learnt in protected area management. It shows the significant achievements of tourism in contributing to sustainable ecosystem development and projects issues for the next decade. It will be of interest to researchers in tourism and protected areas, practitioners, bureaucrats, managers and conservationists. The book has 21 chapters and a subject index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Achim Steiner, IUCN, David Sheppard, WCPA -- Preface / Eugenic Yunis, WTO -- Tourism and Protected Areas: Benefits Beyond Boundaries / Robyn Bushell, Russell Staiff and Paul F. J. Eagles -- Tourism as a Tool for Conservation and Support of Protected Areas: Setting the Agenda / Robyn Bushell and Stephen F. McCool -- Global Trends Affecting Tourism in Protected Areas / Paul F.J. Eagles -- Key Principles and Directions for Tourism in Protected Areas: A Review of Existing Charters, Guidelines and Declarations / Jasmine Foxlee -- Tourism, Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas in Developing Nations / Lea M. Scherl and Stephen Edwards -- Joint Management: Aboriginal Involvement in Tourism in the Kakadu World Heritage Area / Peter Wellings -- Tourism as a Tool for Community-based Conservation and Development / Penelope Figgis and Robyn Bushell -- The World Heritage Tourism Programme: Lessons Learned / Art Pedersen -- Trans-frontier Conservation Areas and Sustainable Nature-based Tourism / Anna Spenceley -- Sustainable Nature Tourism in Europe: An Overview of NGOs / Marielies Schelhaas -- Capacity-building for Ecotourism: Training Programmes for Managers of Protected Areas / Wolfgang Strasdas, Brent Corcoran and Thomas Petermann -- The Role of Certification and Accreditation in Ensuring Tourism Contributes to Conservation / Martha Honey -- Tourism-based Revenue Generation for Conservation / Andy Drumm -- Economic Impacts of Parks on Surrounding Communities: Findings from New South Wales / Nicholas Conner -- Management Information Tools for Setting Visitor Fees / Kreg Lindberg -- Conservation and Community Development: The Conservation Corporation Africa Model / Les Carlisle -- Sabi Sabi: A Model for Effective Ecotourism, Conservation and Community Involvement / Rael Loon, Ian Harper and Patrick Shorten -- Financing Parks through Marketing: A Case Study of Ontario Parks / Elizabeth Halpenny -- Concessions and Commercial Development: Experience in South African National Parks / Peter Fearnhead -- Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef: A Partnership Approach / Andrew Skeat and Hilary Skeat -- Tourism, Protected Areas and the World Parks Congress: Fundamental Lessons, New Horizons and Promising Directions / Stephen F. McCool, Paul F.J. Eagles, Robyn Bushell and Jeff McNeely.
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