ABSTRACT
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the themes and concepts related to nature-based tourism development. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading researchers, academics, and practitioners across the globe, it delivers a critical and timely contribution to the knowledge around nature-based tourism.
Nature-based tourism is currently the fastest-growing tourism sector globally and for many destinations, the most significant tourism segment. Organized into five parts, this handbook provides contemporary and cutting-edge perspectives on core topics and explores their linkages. It considers, among others, various natural settings and natural attractions where nature-based tourism can be exercised, including: protected and conserved areas, islands, and mountains; the emerging themes shaping the contemporary nature-based tourism development, including ethics, Sustainable Development Goals, COVID-19 crisis, over-tourism, climate change, resilience; and new approaches toward the visitor management and low-impact experience design, including regenerative and transformative tourism, destination stewardship and pro-environmental behaviour. Part I introduces the concept of nature-based tourism and the emerging challenges in the field. Part II explores the key components in the management and planning of nature-based tourism development. In Part III the handbook focuses on visitor experience design and management and Part IV highlights the impacts of nature-based tourism. Part V examines the future of nature-based tourism and possible solutions to mitigate associated challenges in the field.
The handbook offers a valuable contribution with a systematic outlook of the phenomenon of nature-based tourism and critical perspectives on key concepts, policy, and practice. It shares current knowledge, innovative tools, and sustainable solutions with substantial evidence and societal impact. The book will appeal to students, researchers, and professionals in the fields of tourism, human geography, leisure studies, business studies, and sociology.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|104 pages
Nature-based tourism
chapter 5|15 pages
Cooperation in niches of the nature-based tourism industry
chapter 6|17 pages
Ecotourism, wildlife festivals, and sustainability
part II|129 pages
Management and planning of nature-based tourism development
chapter 8|18 pages
Furthering protected area tourism and visitor management and planning
chapter 9|18 pages
Approaches to foresight recreation and tourism in nature
chapter 10|17 pages
The impact of transport infrastructure development on nature-based tourism
chapter 11|17 pages
Digital technologies in trail-related recreation
chapter 12|18 pages
Fostering stakeholder engagement in sustainable cultural tourism development in nature-based sites
chapter 13|14 pages
The provision of sustainable wildlife experiences
chapter 15|14 pages
Business networking in the field of nature-based tourism
part III|155 pages
Visitor experience design and management
chapter 16|21 pages
Experience design and value co-creation in nature-based tourism
chapter 18|17 pages
Re-designing sustainable experiences for Mount Fuji climbers
chapter 19|17 pages
Towards exclusively inclusive visitor experience
chapter 20|14 pages
Designing ecotourism experiences through co-creation
chapter 23|11 pages
Travel Characteristics, Typologies, and Motivations of Nature-Based Tourists
part IV|108 pages
The impacts of nature-based tourism
chapter 26|23 pages
Sustainable mountain tourism development in the foothills of Himalaya
part V|61 pages
The future of nature-based tourism