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Book SynopsisThis handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the themes and concepts related to nature-based tourism development. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading researchers, academics, and practitioners across the globe, it delivers a critical and timely contribution to the knowledge around nature-based tourism.
Nature-based tourism is currently the fastest-growing tourism sector globally and for many destinations, the most significant tourism segment. Organized into five parts, this handbook provides contemporary and cutting-edge perspectives on core topics and explores their linkages. It considers, among others, various natural settings and natural attractions where nature-based tourism can be exercised, including: protected and conserved areas, islands, and mountains; the emerging themes shaping the contemporary nature-based tourism development, including ethics, Sustainable Development Goals, COVID-19 crisis, over-tourism, climate change, resilience; and new approa
Table of Contents
Introduction & Organisation of the Book
Dr Ante Mandić & Dr. Sandeep K Walia
Section-1- Nature-Based Tourism: Concepts and Emerging Challenges
Chapter-1- Nature-based tourism: before, during and after COVID- 19
David Newsome & Priyan Perera
Chapter-2- The most vulnerable and least heard: Advocating for animal justice in tourism.
Sheppard, V.A. & Fennell, D.A
Chapter-3- A Critical Inquiry into the Sustainability of NBT: Responsibility of the Traveler
Bengi Ertuna, Burcin Kalabay Hatipoglu, Emre Cantekinler, Selen Dağ, Burcu Ormanlıoğlu & Serçin Dilem Şenkal
Chapter-4- A case-story of the connection between woodlands, landscape and nature-based recreation in upland England
Sara V. Iversen, Naomi K. van der Velden & Ian Convery
Chapter-5- Cooperation in niches of the nature-based tourism industry- The case of mountain guiding in Norway.
Kristin Løseth
Chapter-6- Ecotourism, wildlife festivals, and sustainability: Are objectives, strategies, and outcomes aligned?
Glen Hvenegaard
Chapter-7- The role of the local community in the repositioning process of Taranto as a sustainable tourist destination.
Sonia Ferrari & Nicolaia Iaffaldano
Section-2-Management and Planning of Nature-Based Tourism Development
Chapter-8- Furthering Protected Area Tourism and Visitor Management and Planning. Synthesis study of Croatian experiences with proposals for improving the framework
Hrvoje Carić
Chapter-9- Approaches to Foresight Recreation and Tourism in Nature – Experiences from the Nordic Region
Peter Fredman, Tuija Sievänen, Frank S. Jensen, Vegard Gundersen, Sandra Wall-Reinius, Maria Lexhagen, Christine Lundberg, Klas Sandell, Odd Inge Vistad & Daniel Wolf-Watz
Chapter-10- Transport infrastructure development knocks on nature-based tourism door: the case of isolated communities of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Asif Hussain & Francesc Fusté-Forné
Chapter-11- Digital technologies in trail-related recreation: future challenges for trail development
Goda Lukoseviciute, Luís Nobre Perreira & Thomas Panagopoulos
Chapter-12- Fostering Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainable Cultural Tourism Development in Nature-Based Sites: A Case Study on Using Methodological Layering of Art-Based Methods
Dr. Hong Li, Dr. Monika Lüthje, Ella Björn & Dr. Satu Miettinen
Chapter-13- The Provision of sustainable wildlife experiences: The role of the wildlife watching tourism guides
Hilde Nikoline Hambro Dybsand & Peter Fredman
Chapter-14- The Roles of Tour Guides in Nature Based Tours
Gül Erkol Bayram
Chapter-15- Business networking in the field of nature-based tourism: Key factors for successful management
Marios Sotiriadis & Ziyi Yan
Section-3 –Visitor Experience Design and Management
Chapter-16- The role of customer interactions for value co-creation and experience design in nature-based tourism: The case of sea kayaking
Dorthe Eide & Frank Lindberg
Chapter-17- Transformative Bird watching Tourism Experiences in the Peruvian Amazon
Sandra Sotomayor, Pablo Romo & Karen Guillén
Chapter-18- Re-designing sustainable experiences for Mount Fuji climbers: Turning peak-baggers back into pilgrims?
Thomas E. JONES, Huong, T. BUI & Michal APOLLO
Chapter-19- Towards Exclusively Inclusive Visitor Experience: The Case for Equity in Sustainable Tourism
Agnes M. Nowaczek & Carolin Seiferth
Chapter-20- Designing ecotourism experiences through co-creation: the case of small central Mediterranean islands
Karl Agius & Samantha Chaperon
Chapter- 21- A hidden playground: Airsoft-related experience design in nature-based tourism
Ivana Damnjanović
Chapter-22- Linking Tourists’ Visitation Satisfaction, Demographic and Travel Characteristics
John T. Mgonja
Chapter-23- Travel Characteristics, Typologies and Motivations of Nature-Based Tourists: A Literature Review
Sıla KARACAOĞLU
Chapter-24- Experiential Tourism: Nature-based Tourism Trends in India
Sneha N & Nagarjuna G
Section-4- The Impacts of Nature-Based Tourism
Chapter-25- Redefining sustainable tourism challenges and associated indicators in protected areas
Marković Vukadin Izidora; Zovko Mira & Mandić Ante
Chapter-26- Sustainable Mountain Tourism Development in Foothills of Himalaya: A TISM based approach to greater resilience of nature-based destinations
Suneel Kumar; Marco Valeri; Shekhar Asthana; Geetanjali Sageena & Ante Mandić
Chapter-27- Hunting Tourists' Behaviors on Package Tours: The Case of Konya Province, Turkey
Vedat Acar, Nuray Yıldız, & Abdullah Tanrisevdi
Chapter-28- The first insights into the impacts associated with the development of hiking tourism in Moukhtara, Lebanon
Viana Hassan & Georges Bellos
Chapter-29- A Tourism Accommodation Perspective in a Post-pandemic Nature-Based Tourism Development Context
Günay EROL; Lec. Ayşe DELİORMANLI & Ebru Düşmezkalender
Chapter-30- Nature-Based Tourism and Nature Conservation: Exploring The Elements and Links
Jeetesh Kumar, Priyakrushna Mohanty & Neethiahnanthan Ari Ragavan
Section-5- The Future of Nature-Based Tourism
Chapter-31- Nature based tourism in light of COVID-19
Anna Spenceley
Chapter-32- An evaluation of Turkey’s nature-based tourism agenda: policy, planning, and management
Mehmet Şeremet & Emine Cihangir & Kübra Cihangir-Çamur
Chapter-33- Sustainable product development for visitor experiences in nature-based tourism: Applying and extending the Double Diamond Design Process
Julia N. Albrecht & Marco Haid
Chapter-34- Toward an Era of Multispecies Livelihoods in Coastal and Marine Community-based Tourism
Samuel R. Fennell, Kellen Copeland, Bastian Thomsen, Shelby Copeland & Max Duggan
