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Why it’s good to be bad: the role of conflict in contributing towards sustainable tourism in protected areas
This paper examines the historic and contemporary role of one Canadian environmental non-governmental organisation (ENGO) in the operationalisation of sustainable tourism. In particular, the extent to which the ENGO has ...
Mountain places, cultural spaces: the interpretation of culturally significant landscapes
This paper presents an overview of how national park interpretation in New Zealand is incorporating Māori perspectives of cultural landscapes. Since the formation of the Department of Conservation in 1987, interpretive ...
Resilience and sustainability: a complementary relationship? Towards a practical conceptual model for the sustainability–resilience nexus in tourism
“Sustainability” has endured as an important concept for tourism scholars, and volumes have been written about how to achieve this holy grail of the tourism industry. Sustainable tourism destinations are often promoted as ...
Sustaining the physical and social dimensions of wilderness tourism: the perceptual approach to wilderness management in New Zealand
The dynamics of the tourism industry are well illustrated by the case of New Zealand’s tourism development over the last decade. The number of international tourists visiting New Zealand has doubled in the last ten years ...
Tea-sippers or arsonists? Environmental NGOs and their responses to protected area tourism: a study of the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
Environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) adopt a range of positions on the issue of tourism development within protected areas. While many ENGOs perceive tourism development as being extremely undesirable within ...
Tourism sustainability and health impacts in high altitude adventure, cultural and ecotourism destinations: a case study of Nepal’s Sagarmatha National Park
Sagarmatha National Park (SNP) is an ACE (adventure, cultural and ecotourism) high altitude destination. Many researchers argue that tourism development in the region is not sustainable and does not comply with ecotourism ...
Rethinking collaboration and partnership: a public policy perspective
Issues of coordination, collaboration and partnership are now at the forefront of much tourism research on finding new solutions to resource management and destination development problems. However, despite the value of ...
Ecotourism visitor experiences in Aotearoa/New Zealand: challenging the environmental values of visitors in pursuit of pro-environmental behaviour
This paper reports on a research project that examined ecotourism visitor experiences in Aotearoa/New Zealand and whether or not those experiences challenged visitors to consider environmental issues. Twelve study sites ...