This chapter provides an overview of people's changing attitudes regarding mountains, using examples from North America and Australia. The chapter begins by looking at attitudes towards mountains through a spiritual and historical lens. Early religious groups saw mountains as places where people...

This chapter provides a brief conclusion to this book on mountain tourism in its theoretical and applied context. A model for management is presented (referred to as the Sustainable Mountain Tourism Experience Model) which endeavours to address many of the complex issues and circumstances of...

This book describes and analyses the challenges and opportunities of amenity migration to mountain areas and its management, and offers related recommendations. The book's chapters cover the subject through case studies at international, regional and local levels, along with overarching themes such ...

This encyclopedia provides an expert and comprehensive knowledge base of the global ecotourism sector. It is divided into 8 major sections, and contains 41 chapters, individually authored by internationally recognized researchers and practitioners in ecotourism. Each chapter combines theory and...

This paper describes the fundamental attractiveness of alpine areas for ecotourism, the inherent natural and cultural sensitivities associated with developing such areas for ecotourism, and the fundamental strategies which should be considered when developing and managing ecotourism on a sustained...