Ecotourism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Thirty Years of Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367220211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 221 str.

Kenneth Backman; Ian E. Munanura

Opis

This publication evaluates the effect ecotourism has had on environment, conservation, community, as well as assessing the sustainability of ecotourism as a country and NGO policy and program. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ecotourism.

O autorze

Kenneth F. Backman, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management and Fellow of the Institute for Parks at Clemson University, USA, and associate editor of the Journal of Ecotourism. His research areas are sustainable tourism development, and ecotourism.

Ian E. Munanura is an assistant professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University, USA. He teaches ecotourism, and sustainable tourism planning. He also conducts a program of research on family wellbeing constraints influencing destructive forest use behaviour in rural communities, and the mitigation potential of ecotourism.