Sustainable Tourism: Principles, Contexts and Practices
- ISBN-10
- 1845417682
- ISBN-13
- 9781845417680
- Series
- Sustainable Tourism
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 392
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-01-30
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications
- Authors
- Chris Cooper, David A. Fennell
Description
This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN’s sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and management across destinations, the tourism industry, public sector and leading agencies. The book explores the principal values and priorities in sustainable development through a better understanding of values, ethics and human nature. It covers a broad range of studies from an array of disciplinary perspectives and includes learning objectives, discussion questions and international case studies throughout. It is an important text for students and researchers in tourism and sustainability.
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- 2020
- 392 pages
- Paperback
- Channel View Publications
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- 2015-09-11
- 208 pages
- Ebook
- Human Kinetics
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- 2015-01-05
- 233 pages
- Paperback
- Chartridge Books Oxford
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