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Lower Kinabatangan Premier Competitive Sustainable Ecotourism Destination Authors: Jennifer Chan Kim Lian, Kamarul Mizal Marzuki, Fiffy Hanisdah Saikim, Tini Maizura Mohtar Year Published: 2020 ISBN: 978-967-2962-29-8 Sustainability is vital to an ecotourism destination in terms of planning and development. Sustainable tourism brings societal prosperity, enhances the quality of life, improves the situation and ensures that resources are available. Yet there has been little focus on the ecotourism destination, especially on Lower Kinabatangan as a sustainable premier ecotourism destination from the perspectives of key tourism stakeholders – ecotourists, tour operators/ lodges and local communities. A unique sustainable ecotourism book that you cannot miss. This book presents a holistic and sound approach in sustainable ecotourism featuring significant aspects of ecotourism –ecotourism attributes, quality of ecotourism experiences, practices of responsible tourism, responsible guidelines and sustainable framework for the ecotourism destination. These are valuable knowledge to tourism academics and practitioners and has managerial implications and academic contributions.
Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and providing other ecosystem services. As the term is used in this book, rainforests include both temperate and tropical, although the emphasis is on tropical rainforests. Rainforests are also attractive tourist spaces and where they have been used as a tourism resource have generated significant income for local communities. However not all use of rainforests as a tourism resource has been sustainable. This book argues that sustainability must be the foundation on which t...
Advances in Hospitality and Leisure delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism.
Fondée sur plus de 1500 ans d’observations, la médecine japonaise kanpo associe sagesse ancestrale et science moderne. Elle vous enseigne comment déceler les premiers signes de maladies bien avant qu’elles ne s’installent, afin de les traiter naturellement grâce à des changements simples dans votre mode de vie et à l’usage de plantes médicinales. Ce livre vous dévoile 10 concepts majeurs pour comprendre et pratiquer cette approche unique de la santé. Vous y trouverez des outils concrets utilisés par les praticiens japonais en milieu hospitalier, que vous pourrez appliquer au quotidien pour préserver votre bien-être. Au programme : • des clés simples pour comprendre et appliquer la médecine kanpo ; • un guide des signes à surveiller pour interpréter ce que votre corps vous dit ; • des stratégies alimentaires sur mesure pour booster votre vitalité ; • une sélection exclusive de plantes médicinales pour rééquilibrer votre énergie.
An insight into the booming industry of insect leisure and tourism, using case studies and examples from around the world.
Wildlife watching tourist activities can make an important contribution to community development and conservation, especially in developing countries, but it needs to be carefully planned and managed in order to ensure its long-term sustainability and to avoid potential adverse effects on wildlife and local communities. This report, published by UNEP and the Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), considers the socio-economic and environmental benefits that can be derived from watching wildlife tourism, including case studies from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, the United States, Australia, Indonesia and Tanzania.
Tourism is one of the world's biggest industries. Responsible tourism is concerned with the effects of tourism on people, ecology, and communities, and seeks to ameliorate these impacts by providing tourism which benefits host communities, improves working conditions, involves the local community, promotes cultural heritage, and benefits the environment. This book discusses responsible tourism as a whole, including the politics, policy and planning behind it, and the major subject sub-topics, such as poverty reduction, the environment, transport, governance, wildlife tours and heritage. It is.
Throughout the world people are concerned about the demise of tropical forests and their wildlife. Hunting by forest-dwelling people has a dramatic effect on wildlife in many tropical forests, frequently driving species to local extinction, with devastating implications for other species and the health of the forests themselves. But wildlife is an important source of protein and cash for rural peoples. Can hunting be managed to conserve biological communities while meeting human needs? Are hunting rates as practiced by tropical forest peoples sustainable? If not, what are the biological, social, and cultural implications of this failure? Answering these questions is ever more important as na...