The development of nature-based tourism is one the most critical sectors tourism, which influenced by various economic, socio-cultural, and environmental factors. COVID-19 pandemic has all including tourism. purpose this article to identify key drivers affecting analyze future scenarios in Iran based on uncertainties caused pandemic. Micmac ScenarioWizard software programs were used research fi...

Reports of rapid growth in nature-based tourism and recreation add significant weight to the economic case for biodiversity conservation but seem to contradict widely voiced concerns that people are becoming increasingly isolated from nature. This apparent paradox has been highlighted by a recent study showing that on a per capita basis, visits to natural areas in the United States and Japan ha...

INTRODUCTION Public demand for close-up experiences with whales, dolphins and porpoises at sea is at an all time high. Commercial tourist ventures include opportunities for people to observe, swim with, touch, or feed wild cetaceans from shore, sea or air. In 1998, a total of 87 nations and territories offered commercial tourist activities that target wild cetaceans, with more than nine million...

A study was undertaken to establish how visiting tourists to Samoa perceived free-roaming dogs (Canis familiaris) and their management, additionally some factors that influence their perceptions were assessed. Questionnaires were administered to 281 tourists across Samoa over 5 weeks. Free-roaming dogs were seen by 98.2% (n = 269/274) of respondents, with 64.9% (n = 137/211) reporting that thei...

Scientists have traditionally studied recreation in nature by conducting surveys at entrances to major attractions such as national parks. This method is expensive and provides limited spatial and temporal coverage. A new source of information is available from online social media websites such as flickr. Here, we test whether this source of "big data" can be used to approximate visitation rate...

Tourism can be deleterious for wildlife because it triggers behavioral changes in individuals with cascading effects on populations and communities. Among these behavioral changes, animals around humans often reduce their fearfulness and antipredator responses towards humans. A straightforward prediction is that habituation to humans associated with tourism would negatively influence reaction t...

Ecotourism is a sub-component of the field of sustainable tourism. Ecotourism’s perceived potential as an effective tool for sustainable development is the main reason why developing countries are now embracing it and including it in their economic development and conservation strategies. Ecotourism, as an alternative tourism, involves visiting natural areas in order to learn, to study, or to c...

introduction: firstly, for exploring the basis of ecotourism, we should look for the basis of literature configuring of the tourism development and emersion of sustainability though in it. tourism planning has progressed over this period after the wwii, with an detonation of economic and marketing ideas coming to prevailing tourism planning, so as it called “boosterism” which we cannot consider...

This article studies the nature of differentiation in the market for medical tourism facilitators in the USA. Medical tourism facilitators in the USA resemble a monopolistically competitive industry. They choose to differentiate their services in several ways, including by the scope of countries and hospitals which they use, the scope of the treatments in which they specialize, the extent of in...