Tourism, Environment and Ecology

Contents: Preface. 1. Antarctic tourists, wildlife and the environment : attractions and reactions to Antarctica/Clem Tisdell and Clevo Wilson. 2. Setting tourism targets for an emerging destination : the interface between marketing and economics in planning for sustainable tourism/Larry Dwyer and Robert Cleverdon. 3. Ecological carrying capacity in destinations : a conceptual approach/Senol Cavus and Abdullah Tanrisevdi. 4. The cultural turn in Leisure and tourism studies/Ken Roberts. 5. Impact of tourism on environment in Garhwal Himalaya : a critical assessment/Ashish Chandra and Devesh Nigam. 6. Media images and managing behaviour amongst nature based tourists/Warwick Frost. 7. Tourism, environment and sustainable development : an environmental economics perspective/Anil Markandya and Tim Taylor. 8. Spirituality, authenticity, nature : the art of eco-tourism in aboriginal Australia/Eric Venbrux and Anke Tonnaer. 9. Bodies and ecotourism studies : a case study from Thailand/Gordon Waitt and Lauren Cook. 10. Commodification of tourism in twenty-first century : a case of Garhwal, India/A.C. Shukla, Vandana Asthana, Devesh Nigam and Ashish Chandra. 11. Evaluation of Congress tourism development in the World and in Turkey/A. Akyn Aksu, Veli Erdinc OREN, Volkan SYNAN and Canan OZCAN. 12. Planning for sustainable tourism development : guiding values and impacts/Larry Dwyer and Deborah Edwards. 13. Nature based tourism and the valuation of its environmental resources : economic and other aspects/Clem Tisdell.

"The phenomenon of sustainable tourism is possible if proper attention is paid towards the protection of environment and ecology depending on the kind attitude of people towards nature. Greenery or greening tourism is the utmost need of the day to same the nature  and mother earth. In Vast Himalayan range there are frequent landslides, earthquakes do occur in the tourist zones because the imbalance in nature.

The present book \'Tourism, Environment and Ecology\' is perhaps the first study containing research papers and studies from eminent world expert from the field of biodiversity, conservation, ecology, environment, sustainable development, tourism and tourism economics.

The publication discusses the vital issues concerning environment and economy in relation to tourism. Preservation of ecology and environment are the utmost priority features of our national tourism policy, besides having focus on economic gains.

A national legal mechanism to govern the eco tourism is also but necessary. The book also discusses issues like global worming, air-pollution, water shortage, forestation, and natural disasters generating equal tension among developed and developing world.

This book will be highly useful for professionals, environmentalist, tourism policy makers, researchers and student community." (jacket)