Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentialsand Possibilities?

Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentialsand Possibilities?Second Edition

Stephen Wearing & John NeilUniversity of Technology School of Leisure, Sport

and Tourism Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

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Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ........................................................... ix

INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................... xi

CHAPTER 1 Departure: surveying the ground

The ecotourism alternative ........................................................... 2

The nature of ecotourism ............................................................. 6

Sustainable tourism: conserving natures base ............................... 8

Moving towards a definition ........................................................ 11

Further reading ......................................................................... 14

CHAPTER 2 If ecotourism is not just an activity but a philosophy, whichphilosophy

Human nature ........................................................................... 15

Exchanging value(s)................................................................... 17

Toward ecocentrism: modern roots .............................................. 20

Whose sustainability? ................................................................ 24

Ethics and (of) resource management.......................................... 28

Further reading ......................................................................... 31

CHAPTER 3 Tourism development: government, industry, policy and planning

Sustainable tourism development ............................................... 36

Planning and policy frameworks who is involved

and how? .................................................................................. 38

Government-led planning and policy initiatives ............................ 38

Integrated policy and planning.................................................... 42

Industry-led planning and policy ................................................. 46

Codes of practice....................................................................... 46

Compliance............................................................................... 51

Accreditation ............................................................................ 52

Cooperative government and industry initiatives:

community involvement and cooperative approaches .................... 54

Using policy to achieve best practice .......................................... 56

Zoning...................................................................................... 59

Further reading ......................................................................... 60 v