Environment and Tourism,
                 Second Edition
         Taking a holiday has become an expected part of lifestyle for many
         people living in economically advanced societies. However, with the
         number of international tourism arrivals now surpassing 800 million
         people per annum and expected to reach over 1.6 billion by 2020,
         tourism has consequences for the natural environments and communities
         it comes into contact with. This book offers an integrated account of the
         problems and opportunities this migration of people presents for nature
         and communities.
         The second edition of Environment and Tourism reflects changes in the
         relationship between tourism, society and the natural environment in the
         first decade of the new century. Alongside the updating of all statistics,
         environmental policy initiatives, examples and case studies, new material
         has been added. This includes two new chapters: one on climate change
         and natural disasters; and the other on the relationship between tourism
         and poverty. These themes have direct relevance not only to tourism but
         are reflective of the wider relationship between nature and society, a
         thesis that contextualises the book. Tourism is also analysed as an
         interconnected system, linking the environments of where tourists come
         from, with the ones they go to. Further issues addressed in the book
         include tourism’s interaction with nature; economic opportunities for
         conservation; market failure that causes tourism to create environmental
         problems; environmental management and planning for tourism;
         environmental ethics; sustainable tourism and ecotourism; poverty and
         tourism; climate change, natural disasters and tourism.
         The book is original in taking a holistic view of the tourism system and
         how it interacts with the natural environment, illustrating the positive and
         negative effects of this relationship, and importantly how tourism can be
         planned and managed to encourage natural resource conservation and aid
         human development. It will be useful to those studying Human
         Geography, Tourism and Environment Studies.
         Andrew Holden is Director for the Centre for Research into
         Environment and Sustainable Tourism (CREST) at the University of
         Bedfordshire. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in
         London. His research and consultancy work has been undertaken in
         Indonesia, Nepal, Turkey, Russia, Scotland and Cyprus.
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