Product Description: Planning and management for tourism growth is becoming essential in the context of sustainable development. Particularly so since many tourist destinations are facing severe pressures from tourist flows and activities. Such pressures are evidenced in terms of dysfunctions (congestion, environmental degradation, etc) which ultimately affect the attraction and competitiveness of tourism destinations...read more

Product Description: Although widely advocated, sustainable tourism is subject to numerous interpretations -- from environmentally friendly forms of tourism to maintaining the economic viability of tourist activity in a specific place. This book explores various views on sustainable tourism and demonstrates its complexity and diversity, in order to clarify the issues in operational terms...read more

Product Description: This text addreses the interface of tourism and environmental sustainability. It seeks to present new advances in the methodology for evaluating conflicts between tourist development in many countires, and the constraints set by environmental conditions...read more

Product Description: This work offers contributions to the evaluation and planning of the world's cultural heritage, taking a strong methodological perspective from a policy angle and aiming to provide operational tools for evaluating cultural heritage in a policy-relevant context...read more