FOWS 4310: Ecotourism: Books and eBooks

Published in 2002, it doesn't contain the most current information, but it does provide a useful background on the challenges and strategies for establishing certification programs.

Comprehensive investigation into the evolution of the ecotourism industry. Includes detailed case studies of the Galapagos Islands, Kenya, Costa Rica, and more.

Dating back to the 1990s, again, this book is not up to date, but contains valuable background information on tourism-related issues on islands and small states.

A companion title to the book listed above, the volume offers detailed case studies on island tourism across the globe.

Drawing on a diverse series of international case studies this book offers conceptual and practical insights into the complex interactions between ecotourism and the natural environment. The result is a critical examination of ecotourism and environmental sustainability that highlights ideas for best practice and proposes new directions for future research.

This edited volume conceptualises and empirically analyses the ecotourism-extraction nexus within the context of broader rural and livelihood changes in the places where these activities occur. The volumes central premise is that these seemingly contradictory activities are empirically and conceptually more alike than often imagined, and that they share common ground in ethnographic lived experiences in rural settings and broader political economic structures of power and control. The book offers theoretical reflections on why ecotourism and natural resource extraction are systematically decoupled, and epistemologically and analytically re-links them through ethnographic case studies drawing on research from around the world. It should be of interest to students and professionals engaged in the disciplines of geography, anthropology and development studies.

An international range of outstanding new cases focused on sustainable tourism management and development, including award winners and finalists from the WTTC Tourism for Tourism Awards they are written by local scholars who are experts in sustainable tourism.