Sustainable Tourism IV
Edited By: C.A. Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK and F.D. PINEDA, Universidad Complutense, Spain
Price
$538.00 (free shipping)
ISBN
978-1-84564-458-1
eISBN
978-1-84564-459-8
Pages
624
Transaction Series
WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
Transaction Volume
139
Published
2010
Format
Hardback
Tourism has become a major international industry, with many countries all over the world relying on the income it produces. Because it is a major source of finances and employment, government and other institutions actively promote tourism, regardless of the impact on the environment, ecology and social structure of the region.
The demands of tourism can contribute to the destruction of the natural and cultural environment upon which it depends. The natural and cultural landscape’s capacity to accommodate the local and worldwide effects of tourism, the typology thereof and its implications for the economy and society constitute very important study objectives. The development of tourism can result in the degradation of natural landscapes that paradoxically attract tourists to such areas.
Featured topics include: Tourism Strategies; Tourism as a Tool of Development; Tourism Impact; Tourism and Protected Areas; Rural Tourism; Community Involvement; IT and Tourism; Climate Change and Tourism; Environmental Issues; Art, Architecture and Culture; Modelling; Emergent Strategies for Tourism Development; Landscape and Tourism; Tourism and Urban Planning.
