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Ecotourism: A panacea or a predicament?
Madhumita Das,Bani Chatterjee +1 more
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In this article, the authors provide a description of the vision and present practices of ecotourism and provide a review of published peer-reviewed journal articles during 2000-2013.About:
This article is published in Tourism Management Perspectives.The article was published on 2015-04-01. It has received 239 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecotourism.read more
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Tourism development, energy consumption and Environmental Kuznets Curve: trivariate analysis in the panel of developed and developing countries.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between economic growth, carbon dioxide emissions, tourism development, energy demand, domestic investment and health expenditures with an aim to test the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in the panel of three diversified World's region including East Asia & Pacific, European Union and High income OECD and Non-OECD countries.
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Litter impacts on scenery and tourism on the Colombian north Caribbean coast
Allan T. Williams,Allan T. Williams,Nelson Rangel-Buitrago,Giorgio Anfuso,Omar Cervantes,Camilo M. Botero +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the location, scenery and litter evaluation of 35 Colombian Caribbean beaches (9 remote, 9 village, 14 urban and 3 resort) were provided, and four litter grades were found.
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Ecotourism and Indigenous Micro-Enterprise Formation in Northern Australia Opportunities and Constraints
TL;DR: In this paper, a SWOT analysis was used to determine the feasibility for the Ngukurr people to venture into the field of tourism, and a possible solution to this problem is the creation of joint ventures with companies that have prior experience in tourism.
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Sustainable ecotourism indicators with fuzzy Delphi method – A Philippine perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a fuzzy Delphi method in establishing sustainable ecotourism indicators where fuzzy set theory is used to address vagueness and uncertainty of judgments and the group decision-making process is handled by the delphi method.
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Prospective tourist preferences for sustainable tourism development in Small Island Developing States
Gaetano Grilli,Gaetano Grilli,Emmanouil Tyllianakis,Emmanouil Tyllianakis,Tiziana Luisetti,Silvia Ferrini,Silvia Ferrini,R. Kerry Turner +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a choice experiment and latent factor analysis to disentangle relevant aspects of sustainable tourism in Small Island Developing States for potential visitors, and find that prospective tourists are interested in the wider aspects of the tourism experience which in turn require the careful management of social and environmental resources in small island developing states.
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Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
Andrew Balmford,Aaron Bruner,Philip Cooper,Robert Costanza,Stephen Farber,Rhys E. Green,Rhys E. Green,Martin Jenkins,Paul Jefferiss,Valma Jessamy,Joah R. Madden,Kat Munro,Norman Myers,Shahid Naeem,Jouni Paavola,Matthew Rayment,Sergio Rosendo,Joan Roughgarden,Kate Trumper,R. Kerry Turner +19 more
TL;DR: It is estimated that the overall benefit:cost ratio of an effective global program for the conservation of remaining wild nature is at least 100:1.
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Content-Analysis Research: An Examination of Applications with Directives for Improving Research Reliability and Objectivity
TL;DR: An empirical review and synthesis of published studies that have used content analysis methods is presented in this article, where the authors provide an empirical investigation of multiple dimensions of objectivity and reliability issues.
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Political foundations of the resource curse
TL;DR: The authors argue that politicians tend to over-extract natural resources relative to the efficient extraction path because they discount the future too much, and resource booms improve the efficiency of the extraction path.
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Ecotourism and sustainable development : who owns paradise?
TL;DR: The concept of ecotourism - in search of the golden toad the world travel industry - going green? as mentioned in this paper The Galapagos - paradise lost Costa Rica - on the beaten path Cuba - growth of tourism during the "special period".
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Limits to community participation in the tourism development process in developing countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed and explained the limitations of participatory tourism development in the context of developing countries and concluded that hard political choices and logical decisions based on cumbersome social, economic and environmental trade-offs are sine qua non alongside deliberate help, collaboration and co-operation of major international donor agencies, NGOs, international tour operators and multinational companies.
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