Nature-Based Tourism in Peripheral Areas

Development or Disaster?

Edited by Prof. C. Michael Hall, Prof. Stephen W. Boyd

Publication date:

21 December 2004

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845410018

This book provides one of the first detailed examinations of the problems of nature-based tourism development in peripheral areas. A diverse range of environments is used to illustrate the challenges and difficulties of managing nature-based tourism resources. A central theme throughout the book is the degree of opportunity that nature-based tourism provides as the basis for peripheral region development.

1. Introduction: Nature-based Tourism and Regional Development in Peripheral Areas – C. Michael Hall and Stephen Boyd
Section One: Nature-based Tourism in Alpine, Forest and Sub-Polar Environments
2. Ecotourism and the Resource Hinterland in Northern Ontario - Margaret Johnston and Robert Payne
3. Wilderness Discourses and the Development of Nature-Based Tourism in Northern Finland - Jarkko Saarinen
4. Mountain Scenic Flights: A Low Risk, Low Impact Ecotourism Experience Within South Island, New Zealand - Nicholas J Westwood and Stephen W Boyd
5. Regional Contrasts in Ecotourism in Rainforests - Warwick Frost
6. Destination Image: Victorian Mountain Parks and Resorts in the Summer - Roslyn Russell and Philippa Thomas
7. Winter Tourism in Protected Pleasure Peripheries: Time-Space Use Among Cross-Country Skiers in Abisko (Sweden) and Vercor (France) - Ludovic Dupuis and Dieter K. Müller
8. The Importance of Health as a Factor in Achieving Sustainability in a High Altitude Destination of a Less Developed Country - Ghazali Musa
9. Second Home Tourism in the Swedish Mountain Range - Dieter K. Müller
Section Two: Island, Coastal and Marine Environments
10. Pest or Precious Tourism Commodity? The Economic Value of White-Tailed Deer Hunting on Stewart Island / Rakiura - Brent Lovelock and Kevin Robinson
11. The Economic Benefits of an Ecotourism Project in a Regional Economy - Filipo Tokalau
12. Growth of Beach Fale Tourism in Samoa: The High Value of Low-Cost Tourism - Regina Scheyvens
13: Doing it Right the First Time? Ecotourism on the Wild Coast of South Africa - Dorothy Queiros and G.D.H. Wilson
14: Penguins as Sights - Penguins as Site: The Problematics of Contestation - Eric J. Shelton and Hildegard Lubcke
15. Dolphins, Whales and Ecotourism in New Zealand: What are the Impacts and How Should the Industry be Managed? - Mark Orams
16. The State of the Scenic Cruise Industry in Doubtful Sound in Relation to a Key Natural Resource: Bottlenose Dolphins - David Lusseau
Section Three: Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: A Tool for Regional Development?
17. Ecotourism/Egotourism and Development - Brian Wheeler
18. Nature-based Tourism in Peripheral Areas: Making Peripheral Destinations Competitive - Stephen Boyd and C. Michael Hall

The book makes a major contribution to developing understanding of the potential scope for tourism development in social and economic growth. This is a very good book that deserves to be widely used in tertiary level tourism courses.