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Slow tourism: experiences and mobilities

by Fullagar, Simone, Wilson, Erica, Markwell, Kevin

fromAspects of tourism

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This book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow touris…

Slow travel and tourism

by Dickinson, Janet, (Janet E.), Lumsdon, Les

fromTourism, environment and development

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"'Ironically, you might think, I'm a great advocate of Slow Travel. There is a misconception that "seeing the world" requires us all to travel further and faster. And I've probably contributed to it, with a series of television programes that have largely depended on visiting di…

Ecotourism and sustainable development: who owns paradise?

by Honey, Martha

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Around the world, ecotourism has been hailed as a panacea: a way to fund conservation and scientific research, protect fragile ecosystems, benefit communities, promote development in poor countries, instill environmental awareness and a social conscience in the travel industry, …

Conservation tourism

by Buckley, Ralf

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The effects of tourism on the ecology and natural environment of tourist destinations are hotly debated and research has expanded in the field of ecotourism and sustainability. This book considers the positive contributions that tourism can make to the conservation of global bio…

The Routledge handbook of tourism and the environment

by Fennell, David A., Holden, Andrew

fromRoutledge Handbooks

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Part 1: Scientific Realties and Cultural Constructs of the Environment 1. Introduction 2. The Natural Science Ontology of Environment 3. Social Science Ontology of Environment: Challenges to Human Exceptionalism 4. Religious Views of the Environment: Sanctification of Nature and…

Tourism, climate change and sustainability

by Reddy, Maharaj Vijay, Wilkes, Keith

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This book addresses many of the key themes that are seen as challenges to achieve sustainability and to mitigate climate change impacts in the near future, in the tourism sector. In particular it focuses on the economic drivers for growth in tourism as they relate to sustainabl…