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Environmental Management and the Competitiveness of Nature-Based Tourism Destinations (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Environmental Management and the Competitiveness of Nature-Based Tourism Destinations (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: New Horizons in Environmental Economics series
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Environmental management, either voluntary or imposed, can add to
the costs of nature-based tourism businesses. Such costs can make
tourism destinations less competitive, but the same activities can
also enhance competitiveness by increasing demand. The aim of this
book is to provide an assessment of the relative importance of
these two opposing effects in the context of a case study of
nature-based tourism in Tropical North Queensland, Australia.The
authors estimate the demand side effects using discrete choice
modelling to determine the impact of changing environmental
conditions on the market share of a variety of tourist
destinations. The costs of environmental management are also
considered by analysing firm level data. The effects are then
integrated using a model of the tourism market that is formulated
around nature-based tourism regions. The results show that the
competitiveness of a region is enhanced through its environmental
management and highlight the importance of self-regulation in the
industry when the environment is a common property resource. The
authors also draw some insightful conclusions regarding business
strategies that would aid the profitability of firms and regions
supplying nature-based tourism products. The conceptual foundations
developed in the book are not restricted by national boundaries and
the empirical analyses can be extended to other nature-based
tourism destinations and to other relevant policy issues. As such,
this book will have a broad appeal amongst environmentalists,
scholars of tourism economics and management, and policymakers
concerned with the regulation of the tourism industry and its
effect on the environment.
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