Environment and Tourism

Аннотация

The second edition of Environment and Tourism reflects changes in the relationship between tourism, society and the natural environment in the first decade of the new century. Alongside the updating of all statistics, environmental policy initiatives, examples and case studies, new material has been added. This includes two new chapters: one on climate change and natural disasters; and the other on the relationship between tourism and poverty. These themes have direct relevance not only to tourism but are reflective of the wider relationship between nature and society, a thesis that contextualises the book. Tourism is also analysed as an interconnected system, linking the environments of where tourists come from, with the ones they go to. Further issues addressed in the book include tourism’s interaction with nature; economic opportunities for conservation; market failure that causes tourism to create environmenta problems; environmental management and planning for tourism; environmental ethics; sustainable tourism and ecotourism; poverty andtourism; climate change, natural disasters and tourism