Fischer Sustainable Tourism

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8385-4097-9
Verlag: UTB
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten

Tourism is worldwide a major and still increasing economic sector. It causes, however, not only benefits like economic profit and jobs but also a lot of harms: CO2 emissions, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and social imbalance. The idea of sustainability may help to make human activities in tourism less destructive by changing the behavior of the common run of tourists. The general framework helps students and stakeholders to better understand the long-term interactions between economy and environmental protection, and each tourist will find a guideline how to organize the next holiday trip in a more responsible way.

Prof. Dr. Anton Fischer lehrt im Bereich Geobotanik an der TU München.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Anton

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 7
2 Tourism 13
2.1 Definition 13
2.2 Pre-tourism forms of travelling 14
2.3 The economic power of tourism 15
2.4 Mass tourism and its“ecologicalcosts” 17
2.5 Money flow to and at destinations 20
2.6 The ecologicalfootprint 22
2.7 Negative consequences of mobility 27
2.8 Mass tourism and its“socialcosts” 32
3 Alternative forms of tourism 35
3.1 Forms and definitions 35
3.1.1 Alternative and sustainable tourism 36
3.1.2 Nature-based tourism 40
3.1.3 Environmentallyandsociallyfriendlytourism and ecotourism 41
3.1.4 Special forms of ecotourism: conservation and volunteer tourism 45
3.1.5 Farm tourism 46
3.1.6 Pro-poor tourism 47
3.1.7 Adventure tourism 47
3.1.8 Criticism of there levance of definitions with regard to sustainability 48
3.2 Low-carbon travelling 49
3.2.1 Soft mobility 49
3.2.2 CO2-sequestration by treeplanting 52
3.3 Touristic attractiveness of natural areas 53
4 Combining nature conservation and sustainable tourism 55
4.1 Finding the right balance 55
4.2 Should there be entrance fees for national parks? 55
4.3 Disturbances in protected areas caused by tourism 59
4.4 The concept of carrying capacity 60
4.5 Big-game hunting 65
4.6 PAN parks: combining wilderness protection and Economic benefits 69
4.6.1 The Protected Areas Network and ist objectives 69
4.6.2 Acceptance by local communities 73
4.7 Implementation of ecotourism projects 74
4.8 Tourism and ethics 77
5 From the analysis of tourist trips to an evaluation schema 79
5.1 Important issues in evaluating tourist trips 79
5.2Analysis of tourist trips 85
5.3 A systematic approach to tourist trip evaluation 101
6 Guidelines for planning and managing sustainable tourism 107
6.1 Guidelines for sustainable tourism at the destination 107
6.2 Guidelines for sustainable tourism in protected areas 109
7 The future of sustainable tourism 113
7.1 Towards a general concept of sustainable tourism 113
7.2 “Sustainable mass tourism”? 116
8 References 119
9 Acknowledgements 125
10 Index 127

Über Autor(innen)

Fischer, Anton
Prof. Dr. Anton Fischer lehrt im Bereich Geobotanik an der TU München.