Tourism, Recreation and Sustainability: Linking Culture and the Environment

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface to the 2nd Edition......Page 10
1 Introduction: Pathways and Pitfalls in the Search for Sustainable Tourism......Page 12
PART I: Frameworks and Approaches......Page 28
2 Recreation Ecology in Sustainable Tourism and Ecotourism: a Strengthening Role......Page 30
3 Ecotourism and Nature-based Tourism: One End of the Tourism Opportunity Spectrum?......Page 49
4 Hypothesizing the Shifting Mosaic of Attitudes Through Time: a Dynamic Framework for Sustainable Tourism Development on a ‘Mediterranean Isle’......Page 62
5 Tourism, Sustainability and the Social Milieux in Lake Superior’s North Shore and Islands......Page 87
6 Development and Evaluation of Sustainable Tourism Principles: the WWF Arctic Tourism Guidelines Initiative......Page 114
PART II: Tourism, Place, and Community......Page 128
7 From ‘Guiding Fiction’ to Action: Applying ‘The Natural Step’ to Sustainability Planning in the Resort of Whistler, British Columbia......Page 132
8 Destination and Place Branding: a Lost Sense of Place?......Page 142
9 Withstanding the Test of Time: Yellowstone and Sustainable Tourism......Page 153
10 Community Perspectives in Sustainable Tourism: Lessons from Peru......Page 169
11 Local Participation and Attaining Sustainable Tourism: a Comparative Study of Honduran......Page 194
PART III: Emerging Issues in Culture and Tourism......Page 206
12 Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from Southern Africa......Page 208
13 Cultural Inscriptions of Nature: Some Implications for Sustainability, Nature-based Tourism and National Parks......Page 231
14 The Attitudes of Community Residents Towards Tourism......Page 247
15 Tourism and Indigenous Peoples......Page 271
16 Sustainable Tourism in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Past, Challenges to Address......Page 294
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