Tourism 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