This chapter examines tourism policy and planning documents of alpine, Arctic and subarctic regions in terms of: (i) the challenges and trends in European winter tourism; (ii) the planned regional responses to those challenges and trends; and (iii) the future of European winter tourism from a...

An examination of the role of women in community-based mountain tourism is presented, focusing in particular on the pronounced gender imbalance in tourism decision-making in villages in Nepal. Despite their participation in caring for tourists as guests to their villages, women are often excluded...

A review of the comparative advantages of using mountains relative to other tourist assets as instruments of development is presented, as well as a consideration of the problems of implementation that arise in the context of Nepal. Furthermore, the strategic policy implications of mountain tourism...

A case study of the Gurvansaikhan National Park in the Gobi region of Mongolia is presented to illustrate the difficulties in involving local communities in tourism development initiatives. In Mongolia, tourism has only recently been introduced into national policy and tourism has developed too...

A policy for promoting the use of tourism as one means for sustaining the integrity of mountain ecosystems is described. The strategy is composed of four specific thrusts: increased mountain perspective and awareness; improved mountain reciprocity; reduced mountain degradation; and deepened and...