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...

This paper examines the concepts involved in the development of voluntary human resources for work in fostering and encouraging more involvement in leisure activities among young Brazilian people. Knowledge/intervention is combined with living significant meaningful leisure experiences in this...

This book with 25 chapters considers the environmental impacts of particular activities, viz., hiking and camping, off road vehicles and recreational boats, as well as impacts specific to certain ecosystems, e.g., marine environments, polar coasts, and mountain environments. It incorporates reviews ...

This paper reports on a research conducted to understand the relationship between visitor characteristics, behaviour and ecological impacts based on a case study in Itatiaia National Park (INP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Impacts at overnight camp sites are indeed due largely to visitor behaviour. The ...

This book examines the destinations and sites that are being created for tourists, as well as for local people within an urban regeneration context, with a particular focus on tourism's relationship to urban regeneration and cultural development. It examines the impact of such developments on a...

This chapter examines the use of interpretative planning in the context of Recife, Brazil. It looks initially at concepts of regeneration and interpretation, the context in which the plan emerged and the area it targeted. Then it discusses the techniques used to match target audience needs to the...

This chapter describes the structure of the whitewater adventure sector and examines case studies where the emphasis is on a multi-day journey down a remote river, typically using both rafts and kayaks. These case studies are from China, Russia, Nepal, Australia and Brazil. For each of the six case ...

This chapter focuses on the worldwide expansion of theme parks since the 1950s to the present, especially regarding the intensification of their growth dynamics in Europe and Asia during the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s, just when in the USA the development of the industry saturated the...

This chapter compares the outcome of the two conservation paradigms (equations) with a descriptive analysis of selected case studies in ecotourism. The chapter begins by reviewing a (non-exhaustive) set of case studies that illustrate the first equation. Again, that equation predicts conservation...

This chapter examines a number of issues relating to the use of the Amazon River and its tributaries as a tourism resource. After discussing significant ecological and geographical aspects of the Amazon region, the chapter examines development in the major tourism nodes of Manaus and Belém...