description: a form of tourism that aims to have a low impact on the environment and local culture while helping to generate income and employment.
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by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
by Paige McClanahan · 17 Jun 2024 · 206pp · 78,882 words
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
by Carolyn McCarthy, Greg Benchwick, Joshua Samuel Brown, Alex Egerton, Matthew Firestone, Kevin Raub, Tom Spurling and Lucas Vidgen · 2 Jan 2001
by Matthew Firestone, Carolina Miranda and César G. Soriano · 2 Jan 2008
their own fund-raising efforts, they have hired additional rangers to crack down on poaching, implemented various community education programs and worked toward establishing a sustainable-tourism code for local businesses. Fundación Corcovado has also been spearheading an increasingly high-profile campaign to designate Parque Nacional Corcovado as a Unesco World Heritage
by Elizabeth Becker · 16 Apr 2013 · 570pp · 158,139 words
, she lived with her family in Costa Rica in the 1970s and eventually wrote the book Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? which explores sustainable-tourism policies around the globe. As cofounder and codirector of the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST), Honey oversees research and convenes conferences on responsible tourism. She
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that are consolidating more and more. The Internet is countering that power by making a more equal playing field.” Honey welcomes the push for a sustainable-tourism label and new criteria but warns that “the problem is the programs are all voluntary.” On the other side of the Atlantic, Harold Goodwin is
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something of an éminence grise of the sustainable-tourism movement with a different vision. He prefers to work directly within the industry to effect change, eschewing outside activism. As a professor, he founded the
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or activists. “The private sector is achieving far more than the NGOs,” he wrote, dismissing programs such as community-based tourism, ecotourism, carbon offsetting, global sustainable-tourism criteria as “superficially attractive” but unproven. Through his teaching, Goodwin says he has trained tourism professionals who work around the world to transform the industry
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do Santinho, a luxury resort on Brazil’s Atlantic Coast, with a nod to Brazil’s rainforest. The WTTC Tourism for Tomorrow Awards for best sustainable-tourism practices were integrated into the annual conference for the first time. I was able to attend the conference thanks to Kathleen Matthews, Marriott’s executive
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than 1.4 million acres of pristine protected Brazilian rainforest to offset the carbon emitted in the corporation’s daily business—part of its evolving sustainable-tourism program to alter how the company administers its 3,000 Marriott hotels to improve the environment. The awards ceremonies were dazzling. Rajan Datan, a BBC
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attended a panda photo exhibit with Zhang Mei. Her WildChina company has several tours into panda reserves and contributes to their preservation—part of her sustainable-tourism program. Xiang Ding Qian, a park ranger at the Changqing Nature Reserve in Shaanxi, spent seven years taking color photographs of the wild, shy bears
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://www.unfoundation.org/press-center/press-releases/2008/ted-turner-global-sustainable-tourism-criteria.html. “We grew up seeing tourism”: Author interviews with Erika Harm, March 25, 2008, and July 14, 2009. “We are more like the police
by Lonely Planet and Carolyn McCarthy · 30 Jun 2013
by John Noble, Kate Armstrong, Greg Benchwick, Nate Cavalieri, Gregor Clark, John Hecht, Beth Kohn, Emily Matchar, Freda Moon and Ellee Thalheimer · 2 Jan 1992
tips on ways of moving with a minimal footprint. International Ecotourism Society (www.ecotourism.org) Promotes responsible travel to natural areas and has listings of sustainable-tourism outfits in Mexico. Mexican Adventure and Ecotourism Association (www.mexicosagaz.org) Nearly 60 active member organizations and companies around the country. Mexiconservación (www.mexiconservacion.org
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
by Fionn Davenport · 15 Jan 2010
by Fodor's · 6 Oct 2011
by Lonely Planet · 21 Oct 2019 · 201pp · 33,620 words
by Rough Guides · 29 Apr 2024 · 558pp · 147,947 words
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
by Lonely Planet · 1,166pp · 301,688 words
by Dan Richardson and Daniel Jacobs · 1 Feb 2013
by Karl Samson · 26 Apr 2010 · 389pp · 210,632 words
by Robert Ullian · 31 Mar 1998
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by Lonely Planet, Carolyn McCarthy and Kevin Raub · 19 Oct 2015
by Jeff Campbell · 4 Nov 2009
by Parag Khanna · 5 Feb 2019 · 496pp · 131,938 words
by Lonely Planet · 1,410pp · 363,093 words
by Rough Guides · 14 Oct 2024 · 882pp · 240,215 words
by Rough Guides · 14 Oct 2023 · 1,955pp · 521,661 words
by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc. · 1 Oct 2012
by Lonely Planet · 476pp · 132,840 words
by Damien Simonis · 31 Jul 2010
by David Baird, Lynne Bairstow, Joy Hepp and Juan Christiano · 2 Sep 2008 · 803pp · 415,953 words
by Christina Paulette Colón, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince and John Marino · 2 Jan 1989
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by Lonely Planet · 14 May 2024 · 232pp · 61,272 words
by Gaia Vince · 19 Oct 2014 · 505pp · 147,916 words
by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters and Kevin Raub · 30 Jun 2015
by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton and Greg Benchwick · 30 Jun 2013
by Rough Guides · 1 Jan 2019 · 1,909pp · 531,728 words
by Jeanette Foster · 27 Feb 2004 · 260pp · 130,109 words
by Matthew Richard Poole · 28 Sep 2009 · 356pp · 186,629 words
by Mark Hiss · 2 Jan 2007
by Lonely Planet · 30 May 2012
by Matthew Carrington · 8 Sep 2008
by Rough Guides · 22 Sep 2018
by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence and Jakob Schneider · 12 Jan 2018 · 704pp · 182,312 words
by Lonely Planet · 26 Oct 2021 · 147pp · 33,578 words
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by Matthew Firestone · 13 Oct 2010
by Wangari Maathai · 6 Apr 2009 · 288pp · 90,349 words
by Lonely Planet, Paul Clammer and Paula Hardy · 1 Jul 2014 · 2,020pp · 267,411 words
by Jeanette Foster · 2 Jan 2008 · 675pp · 344,555 words
by David Baird, Juan Cristiano, Lynne Bairstow and Emily Hughey Quinn · 21 Sep 2007
by Rough Guides · 27 Apr 2024 · 960pp · 267,168 words
by Rough Guides · 15 Jan 2022
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince · 2 Jan 2010
by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words
by Eric Peterson · 1 Jan 2005
by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert · 2 Jan 2009
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by Isabella Noble and Regis St Louis · 15 Nov 2022 · 541pp · 135,952 words
by Karl Samson · 10 Mar 2010 · 666pp · 131,148 words
by Rough Guides · 1 Jan 2024 · 1,383pp · 367,401 words
by Rough Guides, James Bembridge and Barbara McCrea · 4 Jan 2018 · 641pp · 147,719 words
by Lonely Planet and Donna Wheeler · 1 Apr 2015 · 1,510pp · 218,417 words
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince · 25 Aug 2008
by Lesley S. King · 2 Jan 1999 · 420pp · 219,075 words
by Karl Samson · 2 Nov 2010 · 388pp · 211,314 words
by Rough Guides · 1 Aug 2019 · 1,994pp · 548,894 words
by Rough Guides · 15 Oct 2023
by Lonely Planet, John Hecht and Sandra Bao · 31 Jul 2013
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by Planet, Lonely and Masters, Tom · 31 Aug 2015 · 449pp · 85,924 words
by Kate van Der Boogert · 24 Sep 2012
by Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck, Michael S Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos and Korina Miller · 31 Mar 2012
by Lonely Planet and Shawn Low · 1 Apr 2015 · 3,292pp · 537,795 words
by Tim. Clancy · 15 Mar 2022 · 716pp · 209,067 words
by Mike Berners-Lee · 12 May 2010 · 264pp · 71,821 words
by Rough Guides · 21 May 2018
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by Melissa Graham and Andrew Benson · 11 May 2003
by Rough Guides · 23 Mar 2019 · 1,058pp · 302,829 words
by Rough Guides · 31 May 2010 · 493pp · 155,660 words
by Clements, Paul · 2 Jun 2015
by Lonely Planet, John Hecht and Lucas Vidgen · 31 Jul 2016
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by Phil Lee · 25 Nov 2013
by Lonely Planet, Trent Holden, Adam Karlin, Michael Kohn, Adam Skolnick and Thomas O'Malley · 1 Jul 2018
by Ian Hanington · 13 May 2012 · 258pp · 77,601 words
by Chris Santella · 1 Oct 2008 · 197pp · 62,544 words
by Chris Santella · 7 Sep 2011 · 197pp · 62,546 words
by Lonely Planet, Peter Dragicevich, Mark Baker, Stuart Butler, Anthony Ham, Jessica Lee, Vesna Maric, Kevin Raub and Brana Vladisavljevic · 1 Oct 2019 · 990pp · 250,044 words
by Jules Brown and Rough Guides · 2 Feb 2009 · 344pp · 161,076 words
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by Lonely Planet · 30 Sep 2015 · 190pp · 50,133 words
by Rough Guides · 18 Sep 2018 · 976pp · 233,138 words
by Rough Guides · 24 Sep 2018 · 712pp · 199,112 words
by Claire Wallerstein · 1 Mar 2011
by Damien Simonis · 9 Dec 2010
by Martin Dunford, Phil Lee and Karoline Thomas · 4 Jan 2010 · 537pp · 135,099 words
by Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert and Matthew Richard Poole · 6 Dec 2006 · 769pp · 397,677 words
by Rough Guides · 2 Feb 2025
by Rough Guides · 1 Mar 2023 · 919pp · 252,171 words
by Rough Guides · 1 May 2023 · 688pp · 190,793 words
by Dunford, Martin.; Lee, Phil; Summer, Suzy.; Dal Molin, Loik · 26 Jul 2010
by Martin Dunford · 2 Jan 2009
by Rough Guides · 550pp · 151,946 words
by Lonely Planet · 1,236pp · 320,184 words
by Lonely Planet, Stephen Lioy, Anna Kaminski, Bradley Mayhew and Jenny Walker · 1 Jun 2018 · 1,046pp · 271,638 words
by Tim Jepson, Jonathan Buckley and Rough Guides · 2 Mar 2009 · 416pp · 204,183 words
by Rough Guides · 267pp · 74,238 words
by Felix Marquardt · 7 Jul 2021 · 250pp · 75,151 words
by Rough Guides · 30 Apr 2019
by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Brett Atkinson, Steve Fallon, Jessica Lee, Virginia Maxwell, Hugh McNaughtan and John Noble · 31 Jan 2017 · 2,313pp · 330,238 words
by Fodor's Travel Guides · 2 Aug 2023 · 695pp · 189,074 words
by Po Bronson · 14 Jul 2020 · 320pp · 95,629 words
by Deyan Sudjic · 1 Sep 2010
by Humphreys, Rob · 311pp · 168,705 words
by Daniel Jacobs · 10 Jan 2000
by Humphreys, Rob
by Rough Guides · 26 Sep 2018 · 305pp · 87,259 words