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Managing Sustainable Tourism: A Legacy for the Future

Managing Sustainable Tourism: A Legacy for the Future


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Intelligently designed tourism strategies for the twenty-first century! Successful tourism development and marketing are dependent on maintaining a delicate balance between economic growth and the protection of environments. Managing Sustainable Tourism: A Legacy for the Future tackles the tough issues of tourism such as negative environmental impact and cultural degradation, and provides answers that don’t sacrifice positive economic growth. This essential book offers practical plans for fostering harmonious relationships among local communities, the private sector, not-for-profit organizations, academic institutions, and governments at all levels as well as develops management practices and philosophies that protect natural, built, and cultural environments while reinforcing positive and orderly economic growth. Managing Sustainable Tourism discusses in-depth the sensible guidelines for protecting environment, heritage sites, and local culture while developing realistic tourism goals for compatible economic growth. Useful strategies for sustainable tourism are detailed for each tourism type, along with useful tried-and-true marketing techniques aimed at cooperation and respect for all types of environments. Case studies, research, and supplemental reading lists clearly illustrate ideas and the author’s qualified suggestions. Managing Sustainable Tourism explores: the future of the tourism industry understanding sustainable tourism the economics of community growth through tourism marketing the sustainable tourism product nature tourism heritage tourism cultural tourism rural tourism practical guidelines for sustainable tourism a workable global sustainable tourism initiative Managing Sustainable Tourism is an ideal resource for educators, students, developers, entrepreneurs, investors, tourism strategists, planners, policymakers, and anyone interested in sustainable tourism for the new millennium.

Table of Contents:
Foreword (Stanley Selengut) Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Tourism Today and Tomorrow Introduction The World of Tourism Charting a New Course for Sustainable Tourism Overview of Chapters Case Study One: The U.S. Virgin Islands’ Newest Sustainable Tourism ProductSt. Croix Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve Chapter 2. A Philosophic Approach to Sustainable Tourism Sustainable Tourism Dominates Our Future What to Look For in Sustainable Tourism Sustaining the Tourism Product Best Practices to Guide Tourism’s Future Case Study: EcuadorThe Wonderful World of the Galapagos Islands Chapter 3. Is Sustainable Tourism Economically Viable? Thinking Through Sustainable Tourism The Economics of Community Growth Through Tourism Strategic Planning for Sustainable Tourism Marketing the Sustainable Tourism Product Case Study: Missouri, Big Cedar LodgeThe Epitome of Sustainable Tourism Chapter 4. Nature-Based Tourism: Don’t Fool with Mother Nature Nature-Based Tourism Was Never So Good Yes, Tourism Impacts Natural Areas Protecting the Environment Through Tourism Development The Name of the Game Is Quality Case Study: Sustainable Ecotourism Development in the Emberá Indigenous CommunitiesChagres National Park, Panama Chapter 5. What Is Our Heritage? Heritage Tourism: In the Beginning Heritage Tourism: Today and Tomorrow Definitions Are Good Modeling Heritage Tourism Case Study: Looking for LincolnVandalia, Illinois Develops New Lincoln Park Chapter 6. Culturally, Tourism Is Important What Is Cultural Tourism? What Are Our Problems with Culture? Avoiding the Pitfalls What Are the Priorities of Action? Case Study: Early Native AmericansCahokia Mounds State Historic Site Chapter 7. Tourism Goes Country Tourism to Rural Areas Valuable Tourism Products The Dynamics of the Tourism Industry Community Involvement Makes for Successful Tourism Case Study: Roanoke River Paddle TrailA Watery Approach to Rural Tourism Chapter 8. Strategies for Sustainable Tourism Tourism Development Must Have a Strategy Strategies for Rural Areas As Well Practical Guidelines for Sustainable Tourism Best Practices for Sustainable Tourism Case Study: A Rural MasterpieceKansas Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Chapter 9. Managing Sustainable Tourism A Paradigmatic Shift Recognize and Plan Strategy Don’t Get Too Crowded Effective Management Is the Way to Go Case Study: The Embodiment of Managed TourismCanada, Banff National Park Chapter 10. More to Say About the Future Inventory, Assess, Plan, Develop, Market, and Manage A Global Sustainable Tourism Initiative That Might Just Work Research and EducationOur Pathway to the Future Sustainable Tourism Has Arrived and Is Healthy Case Study: Sustainable Tourism in the U.S. Virgin Islands, St. JohnMaho Bay, Harmony, and Concordia Notes Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780789027719
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Legacy for the Future
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0789027712
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2006
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 164
  • Weight: 300 gr


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