Format:
1 online resource (556 pages)
ISBN:
9781845932381
Series Statement:
Ecotourism v.No. 5
Content:
Genuine ecotourism can have many positive impacts. This book considers the topic of quality control and accreditation in ecotourism, describing the mechanisms that can be implemented to ensure quality in various aspects of the industry, namely protected areas, businesses, products and tour guides.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- TIES Organizational Description -- Abbreviations -- 1 Setting the Context: Quality in Ecotourism -- PART ONE: SPECTRUM OF QUALITY ASSURANCE TOOLS -- 2 Achieving Quality in Ecotourism: Tools in the Toolbox -- 3 Green and Gold? Awards for Excellence in Australian Tourism: Promoting Quality and Sustainability to the Tourism Industry -- 4 'No Better than a Band-Aid for a Bullet Wound!': the Effectiveness of Tourism Codes of Conduct -- 5 SmartVoyager: Protecting the Galápagos Islands -- 6 Green Globe: a Global Environmental Certification Programme for Travel and Tourism -- 7 Sustainability Indicators for Ecotourism Destinations and Operations -- 8 Adapting the Indicator Approach - Practical Applications in the South Pacific -- PART TWO: STAKEHOLDERS' PERSPECTIVES -- 9 Stakeholders' Perspectives on Quality in Ecotourism -- Tourist and Consumer Perspectives -- 10 Sustainable Tourism Certification Marketing and its Contribution to SME Market Access -- 11 Consumer Demand for Quality in Ecotourism -- Community Perspectives -- 12 Quality in Ecotourism: the Community Perspective -- 13 The Prospects and Dilemmas of Indigenous Tourism Standards and Certifications -- 14 Assuring Community Benefit in South Africa through Fair Trade in Tourism Certification -- Protected Area Managers' Perspectives -- 15 Certification in Protected Areas: a Western Australian Case Study -- 16 Certification of Protected Areas: the Case of PAN Parks in Europe -- Ecotour Guides' Perspectives -- 17 Professional Certification: a Mechanism to Enhance Ecotour Guide Performance -- 18 Putting the Ecotour Guide Back into Context: Using Systems Thinking to Develop Quality Guides -- 19 Towards Developing Tour Guides as Interpreters of Cultural Heritage: the Case of Cusco, Peru.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845932374
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781845932374
Additional Edition:
Print version Quality Assurance and Certification in Ecotourism
Language:
English
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