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Sustainable tourism VI / editors, C.A. Brebbia, S. Favro, F.D. Pineda.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- International Conference on Sustainable Tourism, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Sustainable Tourism (6th : 2014 : England)
- International Conference on Sustainable Tourism.
- Series:
- WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
- WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment ; v.187
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable tourism--Congresses.
- Sustainable tourism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Southampton, [England] : WIT Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sustainable Tourism VI contains the proceedings of the 6th International Conference in this successful series on Sustainable Tourism.To protect the natural & cultural landscape new solutions are needed which minimise the adverse effects of tourism. This can be achieved through new strategies involving the active collaboration of society as a whole.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Sustainable Tourism VI; Copyright Page; Preface; 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 countriesDeveloping 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 EgyptSection 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 tourismAccessing 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 developmentSection 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; Author index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 07, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-84564-801-3
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