Sustainable tourism development

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Sustainable tourism development

edited by Harry Coccossis and Peter Nijkamp

Avebury, c1995

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Description

This text addreses the interface of tourism and environmental sustainability. It seeks to present new advances in the methodology for evaluating conflicts between tourist development in many countires, and the constraints set by environmental conditions. Much attention is paid to the environment as an opportunity for balanced tourist development. Besides a reflective nature, the text has also an applied character as various case studies from different countries are presented to illustrate the potential offered by various assessment approaches.

Table of Contents

  • Part A Sustainable tourism - theory and planning: environmental impacts on tourist destinations - an economic analysis, D. Buhalis and J. Fletcher
  • the environmental internalities of tourism - theoretical analysis and policy implications, H. Briassoulis
  • new trends in leisure and tourism affecting the tourist industry and destination areas, T.Z. de Haan
  • environmental quality and tourism and the environment, G.J. Ashworth
  • provate and public development strategies for sustainable tourism development of island economies, H. Janssen, M. Kiers and P. Nijkamp
  • planning for tourism at local level - maintaining the balance with the environment, J. Westlake
  • specialization in tourism - the case of a small open economy, A. Lanza and F. Pigliaru. Part B Policy case studies in sustainable tourism: assessing the interaction between heritage, environment and tourism - Mykonos, H. Coccossis and A. Parpairis
  • sustainable tourism development - a case study of Lesbos, P. Nijkamp and S. Verdonkschot
  • the environments of coastal marinas, J.A. Edwards
  • environmental impacts in the Loch Lomond area of Scotland, G.Dickinson
  • rural tourism development - using a sustainable tourism development approach, B. Nitsch and J. van Straaten
  • problems of tourism development in Spain, G.K. Priestley.

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