The research presented in this chapter determines the value that tourists on safari in protected areas in South Africa attach to elephant sightings and the relative importance of the elephant sighting compared with the other species in the Big Five. The study also determines whether tourists take...

This chapter examines the winter tourism offers at the Tatra National Park in Poland as well as the management challenges, including zoning of winter recreation, visitor monitoring, user conflicts, risk and safety, and cooperation for nature conservation.

This describes some of the impacts of fencing on the behaviour, ecology and welfare of wild animals.

This chapter focuses on the role of adventure volunteer tourism in the protection of parks and protected areas. The partnership between the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and the US National Park Service is presented as an example of one way that adventure voluntourists can become involved in the...

This chapter focuses on adventure tourism at Thingvellir National Park in Finland. It reflects on the role of the tourist guide, and offers an assessment of tourists and the impacts on Thingvellir. The future of adventure tourism in Iceland is also explored.

This chapter explores the relationship between tourism, wellbeing and cultural ecosystem services (CES) in the context of protected areas, especially national parks. A case study is presented of the Őrség National Park in Hungary, a protected area that attracts domestic and, increasingly,...

This chapter presents the case of the Sila National Park (SNP) located in southern Italy. Specifically, it discusses the results of a study that explored the views of visitors and residents towards the current forms of tourism offered in the area, with an aim to understand the role sustainable...

This chapter focuses on the symbolism and affinity apportioned to place by a variety of recreational groups and how this can contribute towards management, for example encouraging participation in voluntary income schemes (VIS), where the tourist/recreationalist helps contribute financially towards ...

The focus of this chapter is to investigate the connection between health, wellbeing and the natural environment from a visitor point of view. Specifically, it puts the following research questions to the forefront: how can the connection between health, wellbeing and the natural environment be...

This chapter discussed the classifications of wildlife tourism which includes first, the fully natural settings, such as wilderness, jungles, or deserts, which are unframed, and in which animals are in no way restrained; second, the semi-natural settings, such as national parks and wildlife...