Australian nature-based tourism and ecotourism have become popular forms of recreational activity. Tasmania attracts twice the Australian national average number of nature-based tourists and ecotourists (thirty per cent). The growth of this tourism sector has prompted measures to ensure that experiences are of high quality, and that environmental impacts are adequately managed. ISO 14000 is a c...

All-for-One Tourism is a new planning concept proposed by Chinese tourism management practitioners. Based on the present situation of tourism industry development, the new planning concept is to guide the transformation and upgrading of tourist destinations. The development level of all-for-one tourism represents the maturity of regional tourism industry. China has been actively promoting the a...

The importance of environmental responsibility in tourism is widely accepted. Two main paradigms have emerged: ecotourism – a demand-driven concept limited to nature-based tourism and sustainable tourism – a supply-sided view characterized by industry regulations. Unfortunately, ecotourism is limited in size, and supply-sided measures implicitly contradict the short-term aim of profit-maximizat...

what has turned “nature” into a landscape and a tourism destination has transformed over time and comprised various aspects in different definitions. landscape definitions have considered nature as a tourism destination in multiple points of view. four main viewpoints are debatable in a time period from the first landscape definition till today. the first definition discusses the pictorial and ...

Nature-based tourism has the potential to enhance global biodiversity conservation by providing alternative livelihood strategies for local people, which may alleviate poverty in and around protected areas. Despite the popularity of the concept of nature-based tourism as an integrated conservation and development tool, empirical research on its actual socioeconomic benefits, on the distribution...

nowadays, many countries view tourism as the best way of promoting culture, making international relations and gaining economic incomes for this reason, tourism has been at focus in many countries which has many recourses for tourism and great capacity for attracting tourists. meanwhile, one of tourism sub-branches is ecotourism, which has a particular compatibility with nature. iran is a count...

This paper illustrates the malleable boundaries that define nature. Personal construct theory is employed to examine the apparent contradiction of the human/nature binary posed by landscapes generated by domesticated agriculture and physical and biological processes. Specifically, the paper reports on how tourists to the Kimberley region of Australia discriminate between their perception of hum...

1.introduction this study is going to explore the effects of cultural tourism. it emphasizes on the rich cultural heritage of rural areas, like shaikh kolini in fashafouieh. also, this research explores the domination of cultural tourism in this area beside other types of tourism and also tourism effects on rural areas is going to be discussed. 2.theortical framework primarily, places have vari...