Sustainable Tourism: VI(187 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)

Sustainable Tourism VI contains the proceedings of the sixth International Conference in this successful series on Sustainable Tourism. Tourism has become a major international industry, with many countries all over the world relying on the income it produces. Its economic advantages as a major source of finance and employment frequently leads to its active promotion by governments and other institutions, independent of the consequences on the environment, ecology and social structure of affected regions. This book takes a broad view of this sophisticated and complex industry, and examines the practice of sustainable tourism from global travel trends through to destination and site management. Innovative solutions, including ecological tourism, as well as cultural initiatives that will lead to better approaches to tourism with the objective of preserving the diversity of our planet. Topics covered include: Tourism Strategies; Planning and Development; Sustainable Tourism Assessment; Tourism and Protected Areas; Rural Tourism; Heritage Tourism; Climate Change; Marine and Coastal Tourism.

Table of Contents:
Contents Section 1: Tourism strategies Do sustainability-experienced travellers prefer a more rational communication of the sustainability of a tourism product?; Sustaining tourism in South African game farms: the benefits of ownership of restituted land by African communities; Promoting sustainable tourism in the Pacific Forum Island countries; The life cycle of sustainable eco-tourism: a Kazakhstan case study; Subjective well-being and personality: implications for wellness tourism Section 2: Planning and development Positive tourism precinct outcomes in developing countries; Developing a more effective regional planning framework in Egypt: the case of ecotourism; VV-TOMM: capacity building in remote tourism territories through the first European transnational application of the Tourism Optimization Management Model; Portscape tourism in Japan:diversified and sustainable port space function Section 3: Sustainable tourism assessment Green meetings: ecocertification of sustainable events in conference and business tourism; A sustainable urban tourism indicator in Malaysia; Strengths and weaknesses in the assessment of sustainable tourism: a case study of the Nabq protected area in Egypt Section 4: Tourism and protected areas Environmental valuation by the local population and visitors for zoning a protected area; Analysis of the social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts of indigenous tourism: a multi-case study of indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon; Planning for sustainability at the destination level through limiting accessibility on the island of Spetses, Greece; The positive impacts of ecotourism in protected areas Section 5: Rural tourism Accessing the attitudes of successors in dairy farms toward educational tourism; Quality of experience in rural tourism: regional case studies in Austria and Germany; Ecotourism: sustainable indigenous policies and its effects in Mayan communities, southern Mexico; The cultural landscape as a cross-cutting resource for tourism products in low-density rural territories: diagnosis and guidelines for Alto Minho (NW Portugal) Section 6: Heritage tourism Historic cities and sustainable tourism: a configurational approach; The perception of gastronomic events within the framework of sustainable tourism development Section 7: Climate change Snow flakes and fates: what hope is there for Alpine winter tourism?; Assessing knowledge of social representations of climate change and tourism Section 8: Marine and coastal areas tourism The evaluation of the present anchorage condition and the development tendency in Zadar County; The feedback between a tourism model and urban planning in La Manga, a mass tourist destination on the Spanish coast