TitleTourism and the environment : regional, economic, cultural and policy issues / edited by Helen Briassoulis and Jan van der Straaten
Imprint Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
Edition Revised second
Descript vi, 380 p

CONTENT

Tourism and the environment: an overview -- Regional issues -- Environmental impacts of tourism: a framework for analysis and evaluation -- Tourism development and the natural environment: an economic ecological model for the sporades islands -- Dynamic simulation study of tourism and environment in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico -- Tourism and the environment: some observations onthe concept of carrying capacity -- Rural tourism and rural development -- Economic value of nature -- Sustainable tourism in mountain areas -- Tourism and recreation surveys: the problems of sample selection and truncation bias -- Tourism and culture -- Landscapes of tourism: a cultural geographic perspective -- Environmental and cultural tourism resources: problems and implications for their management -- Experimental iconology : a tool for analysis for the qualitative improvement and tourist development of places -- Contribution of the analysis of the image of a place to the formulation of tourism policy -- Policy issues -- Communication strategies, tourism and the natural environment -- Sustainable tourism policy implementation: an ex ante critical examination -- Heritage tourism and urban environments: conflict or harmony? -- Tourism and the city: some strategy guidelines for a sustainable tourism development -- Regionalisation of tourism activity in Greece: problems and policies -- Tourist development and environmental protection in Greece -- Tourism and the environment: impacts and solutions -- agrotourism and the rural environment: constraints and opportunities in the mediterranean less-favoured areas


SUBJECT

  1. Tourism -- Environmental aspects
  2. Tourism -- Economic aspects
  3. Tourism -- Social aspects
  4. Tourism -- Government policy

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