Despite the fact that national parks and other protected areas are mostly adopting the sustainable development process, it was found that sustainability has yet to be perceived pragmatically in these areas. Due to its process, this paper presents a monitoring framework approach to develop and implement indicators for sustainable tourism. To illustrate the application of the framework, a set of ...

The design of a natural park is generated by the need to protect and organize, for conservation and/or balanced growth, parts territory that are particular interest quality historical–cultural heritage. necessary tool support decision-making process in financial economic evaluations, which intervene three successive steps: definition protection enhancement levels areas; choice interventions be ...

abstract amusement programming, accomplishing ecological and/or environmental plans, in addition to establishing recreational centers, are of the important issues in regional and large-scale management of each country. herein, lack of financial resources to establish amusement areas, has led the natural resource management system to valuate such resources based upon new scientific methods. meas...

one of the problems in forest park management, planning, and design is the tendency to consider recreation independent from aesthetic preferences and ecological objectives. this paper presents the findings of an examination of recreational activities in relation to aesthetics and ecological potentials in siangtan forest park in iran. although protected areas constitute most of this 591 ha park,...

Recently, there have been many forest park theme parks for night tours. Various media technologies are installed in these parks. A case study was conducted to find out the purpose and use of various used at night. We divided technology into three major types currently operation home abroad. The analyzed by dividing forms that special effects stage performances, with interactive technology, ligh...

in this study, sustainable management of saravan park of gilan was planned in the form a decision support system model in 3 periods of 10 years for different states of park and considering the economics, ecological and social criteria. in the first, using fuzzy analytic hierarchy programming, desirable level of economics, ecological and social criteria in their composite utility value in differ...

The authors describe intermediary organizations whose aim is to provide technical assistance to sports organizations about infusing a youth development emphasis into their programming. Team-Up for Youth, Sports PLUS Global, and the National Recreation and Park Association are the three organizations highlighted in this article. Team-Up for Youth's mission is to pioneer innovative strategies to ...

abstract this paper carried out to study determinants of willingness to pay and ecotourism value of tandoreh natioral park using cross section data of 144 households of dargaz and ghochan and contingent value method and logit model in 2008. results showed that age and entrance offer have negative effect and income have positive effect on willingness to pay for ecotourism in tandoreh natioral pa...