This chapter provides insight on mountain tourist behaviour motivations, focusing on the speciality tourism sector of couples, friends, and family travelling to mountain tourism destinations to participate in weddings at these destinations. It was found that many wedding groups who travel to...

This chapter presents two case studies involving hiking and camping within Iranian mountain areas, and looks at the constraints experienced during these outdoor activities. The literature on tourism and pro-environmental behaviour and the constraints on environmental behaviours form the basis for...

This chapter focuses on how to manage tourism and recreation in coastal and marine reserves. Coastal and marine environments provide special challenges to tourism and recreation planners. These problems are outlined, followed by examples of how these challenges have been addressed in Tanzania,...

Ecotourism within islands and coasts is explored. Coastal areas and islands are first defined, and the differences and similarities that characterize ecotourism activity in these 2 environments are outlined. An overview of how these 2 environments differ from other environments where ecotourism...

Ecotourism-related organizations as a mechanism to minimize the negative impacts and maximize the positive impacts of ecotourism worldwide are described. For the purposes of this investigation, ecotourism-related organizations are divided into three categories: (1) membership non-governmental...

Ecotourism as a concept and business is explored briefly. The many different approaches for certifying ecotourism are presented. It is argued that a more systematic international system for ecotourism certification is required to: protect the tourism industry from false ecolabelling; distinguish...