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This book provides case studies, good practices and guidance for private sector companies and industry practitioners to understand how to deliver a profitable and sustainable product for adventure tourism companies, with specific insights into technology, corporate social responsibility, climate change, and environmental impacts.

This Routledge book, created for tourism academics and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises, examines the adventure tourism product, the adventure tourist profile, and provides a deeper analysis of issues including supply, geography and sustainability through a variety of case studies.

This book is an exploration of Arctic tourism, focusing on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences. Useful for destination managers and tour guide operators.

The primary goal of this study is to investigate the present coastal management plans for blue carbon ecosystem management strategies using content analysis of the local plans of select municipalities in the Philippines. The analysis generated eight (8) clusters based on keywords focusing on mangrove and seagrass ecosystems, namely: ecological profile, ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, tourism, natural threats, anthropogenic threats, laws, policies, & ordinances, and management activities. The results of this study can serve as a benchmark for local policy-makers in updating their present management plans particularly in branching their focus on integrated management of seagrass ecosystems and advancing technical capacity and knowledge on blue carbon ecosystems.

This case study analyses the role of environmental NGOs in managing sustainable coastal and marine tourism on Santa Maria island in the Azores.

This World Wildlife Fund report identifies and evaluates nature-based sustainable tourism-related certification schemes available in, or appropriate for Albania.

This CDIA article, focused on Baguio City in the Philippines, highlights improved wastewater management together with flood and drainage initiatives which are derived from a pre-feasibility study in the destinations by CDIA.

These Queensland Government guidelines provide background information and tools and key considerations that must be addressed as a first step in achieving best practice for ecotourism in Queensland’s national parks. Featuring case studies from Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, Victoria, Costa Rica, and Namibia.

This CRC report presents a design and assessment model to assist tourism operators to manage low-impact nature-based sustainable tourism facilities in remote areas. Derived by studies conducted in Australia and informed by indigenous groups, the report provides design guidelines for facility infrastructure, and a framework for environmentally sustainable technology for energy, water and waste management systems.

This IUCN guide helps owners and managers of small and large hotels in the Caribbean to conserve nature through day-to-day hotel operations. This guide is meant to complement the many tools that are already available to help reduce environmental impacts in hotels, by using appropriate siting, design and construction practices, and by improving management of energy and water consumption, and disposal of wastewater and solid wastes.