Tourism based on natural environments is a significant and growing international industry, and one that requires access to land with scenery, native plants and wildlife. In turn, land managers need money to maintain their land and its natural resources. This book looks at the economic, social and environmental consequences of nature-based tourism.

Tourism based on natural environments is a significant and growing international industry, and one that requires access to land with scenery, native plants and wildlife. In turn, land managers need money to maintain their land and its natural resources. This book looks at the economic, social and environmental consequences of nature-based tourism, and its effects on land managers. It discusses the importance of links and partnerships, as well as the conflicts between commercial tourism interests and land management agencies.

1. The practice and politics of tourism and land management
2. Nature-based tourism and sustainability: issues and approaches in nature tourism
3. Sustainable tourism: world trends and challenges ahead
4. Private reserves: the Conservation Corporation Africa model
5. Applying public purpose marketing in the US to protect relationships with public land
6. The financial liability of parks managers for visitor injuries
7. Visitor fees, tour permits, and asset and risk management by parks agencies: Australian case study
8. The net economic benefits of recreation and timber production in selected new south wales native forests
9. Moving nearer to heaven: growth &
change in the Greater Yellowstone Region, USA
10. Visitor impact data in a land management context
11. Small recreational and tourist vessels in inshore coastal areas: a characterisation of types of impacts
12. Establishing best practice environmental management: lessons from the Australian tour boat industry
13. Impacts of nature tourism on the Mt Kosciuszko Alpine Area, Australia
14. Ecological change as a result of winter tourism: snow manipulation in the Australian Alps
15. A method to calculate environmental sensitivity to walker trampling in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
16. Modelling potential for nature-based tourism
17. Contributions of non-consumptive wildlife tourism to conservation
18. Balancing conservation and visitation in protected areas
19. Conclusions.