Ecotourism, or nature-based tourism that is managed to be learning-oriented as
well as environmentally and socioculturally sustainable, has emerged in the past
20 years as one of the most important sectors within the global tourism industry.
The purpose of this series is to provide diverse stakeholders (e.g. academics,
graduate and senior undergraduate students, practitioners, protected area
managers, government and non-governmental organizations) with state-of-the-art
and scientifically sound strategic knowledge about all facets of ecotourism,
including external environments that influence its development. Contributions
adopt a holistic, critical and interdisciplinary approach that combines relevant
theory and practice while placing case studies from specific destinations into an
international context. The series supports the development and diffusion of
financially viable ecotourism that fulfils the objective of environmental, sociocultural
and economic sustainability at both the local and global scale.