Nature-Based Tourism and Conservation

Nature-based Tourism and Conservation unearths new or neglected principles relevant to tourism and recreational economics, environmental valuation and economic theory. Its three parts have chapters on nature-based tourism and its relationships to conservation including case studies dealing with the consequences of World Heritage listing of natural sites, Antarctic, subtropical and tropical national park-based tourism and an NGO's conservation efforts modeled on ecotourism. The final part focuses on tourism utilizing particular wildlife, including sea turtles, whales, penguins, royal albatross, glow-worms and tree kangaroos.

The late Clem Tisdell, formerly Professor Emeritus, School of Economics, The University of Queensland, Australia and Clevo Wilson, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Australia