Marine tourism in Arctic Canada has grown substantially since 2005. Though there are social, economic and cultural opportunities associated with industry growth, climate change and a range of environmental risks and other problems present significant management challenges. This paper describes the growth in cruise tourism and pleasure craft travel in Canada’s Nunavut Territory and then outlines...

The development of the ice-snow tourism needs a scientific and effective method to assess the value of ice-snow tourism resource and its realization degree effectively and reasonability. Based on the analysis of expectation value and realization value of ice-snow tourism resource, this paper designs a three-dimension assessment index system and constructs the method of assessing the value of ic...

Understanding the resilience of vulnerable sectors of social-ecological systems is critical in an era of escalating global change. The coral reef tourism sector is highly vulnerable not only to ecological effects of climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances on reefs, but also to shocks such as economic recession and energy price escalation. Commercial tourism enterprises are key playe...

Motivation • Strong correlation between climate change and sea-level rise • Sea level rose by about 15 cm over the last century • IPCC projected sea-level to rise 5mm/yr. over the next 100 years • Potential impact – stronger storm surges in the coastal regions – coastal erosion – submerged islands – diminished fresh water supplies – loss of tourism • " Prediction of climate change is a critical...

The development of rural tourism can enhance the regional economic development; improve the environment of the countries and the living conditions of the native dweller. In China, the study of countryside tourism mainly focuses on the microcosmic. However, as the progress of countryside tourism is a systematic issue, it should be studied systematically. From the view of Systematics and Synerget...

ecotourism has a close relationship with environment, so a deserving evaluation of environmental potentials can lead to improvement of plans and prevention of failure in tourism development, and avoids unexpected damages to environment. this study tries to investigate and evaluate the environmental potential of khansar in order to develop tourism in this area. khansar has many different capabil...