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This timely book explores how hiking, trekking and climbing
mountains, increasingly popular leisure activities, can stimulate
change and create opportunities for sustainable development. Using
empirical evidence from interviews held in the Himalayas combined
with a theoretical grounding, it focuses on the socio-economic and
environmental issues of the impact of mountaineering adventure
tourism on local communities. Chapters highlight the progressive
stages of the host-guest interactions between local communities and
tourists, moving from initial, indirect and final tourism
development, and the unique sociocultural phenomena these create.
The book examines how, with a planned and systematic approach,
mountaineering can be a key factor in promoting an overall
improvement in local people's quality of life through initiatives
in economic development and environmental conservation. It offers a
look towards the future to create sustainable tourism development
in mountain regions. This is an invigorating read for adventure
tourism and human geography scholars, particularly with the blend
of theory and first-hand studies of local impacts of mountain
tourism. It will also be an interesting read for industry
representatives, policy makers and professionals in the field.
This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of
mountaineering and its relation to the phenomenon of tourism,
providing an overview of recent developments linked to the
diversification, commodification and commercialisation of
mountaineering activity. Mountaineering, broadly defined as hiking,
trekking and climbing, is now a mass phenomenon, with continually
growing numbers of trekkers, climbers and religious tourists hiking
in mountain regions. Increasing visitor numbers require the current
policies to be updated. The environments around high-mountain areas
and their local resident communities, until recently cut off from
civilisation, are sensitive to outside influences and have been
abruptly exposed to the impact of mountaineering and related
activities. This is the first book to disentangle overlapping terms
and definitions related to mountaineering tourism. It identifies
the key terms and turning points in mountaineering tourism and
discusses the impacts of mountaineering tourism from an
environmental, socio-cultural and personal perspective and
identifies current tourism management policies. Finally, this book
provides a continuum between the past and future of mountaineering
tourism and aims to provide policy suggestions for sustainable
management of fragile mountain regions. This will be of great
interest to upper-level students and academics of tourism, as well
as industry representatives and policymakers with an interest in
adventure tourism and mountaineering.
This book provides holistic insights into management of protected
areas across East Asia and identifies current trends in mountain
tourism within the broader field of human geography and nature
conservation. The book describes the diversification in visitors
and expanding protected areas territories in different Asian
countries during recent years. It also compares protected areas
networks in the context of the changing demographic profiles of
visitors and provides an interdisciplinary transnational appraisal
of mountain-based tourism in Asia based on national and
international statistics. The research combines specific case
studies at the individual country and destination level with
trans-regional trends, thereby offering analysis from both the
perspective of supply (parks, protected areas, and stakeholders)
and demand (mountain tourist market trends and segments). The book
is a useful resource for students and academics in tourism and
protected areas studies as well as social scientists and
policy-makers interested in Asian countries.
This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the
aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both
empirical and conceptual chapters, including those by local
researchers, on a range of topics highlighting the relationship
between poverty and sustainability. It cover themes such as:
changes in the environment that pose an existential risk to humans;
new concepts in tourism development that consider it as one of the
key contributors in the prosperity and well-being of all
stakeholders; natural, social and economic aspects of human
behaviour and environmental sustainability; the impact of global
warming on human well-being; immigration and integration policies
and analyses of public discourse on migrants; and overconsumption
and its impact on sustainable development. It will be a helpful
resource for students and researchers of environmental management,
tourism, global justice and sustainable development.
This book provides holistic insights into management of protected
areas across East Asia and identifies current trends in mountain
tourism within the broader field of human geography and nature
conservation. The book describes the diversification in visitors
and expanding protected areas territories in different Asian
countries during recent years. It also compares protected areas
networks in the context of the changing demographic profiles of
visitors and provides an interdisciplinary transnational appraisal
of mountain-based tourism in Asia based on national and
international statistics. The research combines specific case
studies at the individual country and destination level with
trans-regional trends, thereby offering analysis from both the
perspective of supply (parks, protected areas, and stakeholders)
and demand (mountain tourist market trends and segments). The book
is a useful resource for students and academics in tourism and
protected areas studies as well as social scientists and
policy-makers interested in Asian countries.
This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives with the
aim of broadening understandings of poverty. It contains both
empirical and conceptual chapters, including those by local
researchers, on a range of topics highlighting the relationship
between poverty and sustainability. It cover themes such as:
changes in the environment that pose an existential risk to humans;
new concepts in tourism development that consider it as one of the
key contributors in the prosperity and well-being of all
stakeholders; natural, social and economic aspects of human
behaviour and environmental sustainability; the impact of global
warming on human well-being; immigration and integration policies
and analyses of public discourse on migrants; and overconsumption
and its impact on sustainable development. It will be a helpful
resource for students and researchers of environmental management,
tourism, global justice and sustainable development.
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