‘This is a welcome addition to the literature on island tourism. It is the first sustained cross-national attempt to apply the political ecology perspective across a global sample of inter-tropical coastal settings. This conceptual frame...
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 increa...
‘. . . the book presents a compendium of experience drawn from several continents, including the island states and, in contrast to other tourism books, emphasizes the economic aspects in a very simple and practical manner with many point...
'As the nations of the world struggle to negotiate an effective post-Kyoto international climate agreement, there is no area of economic scholarship that has more to offer than game theory. Michael Finus and Alejandro Caparrós, themselve...
‘This book successfully brings basic concepts of economics to bear on the important problem of preserving and managing natural environments in developing countries for the benefit of people everywhere.’
– Anthony C. Fisher, University of...
‘Tourism, Museums and the Local Economy offers some lessons to tourism managers and scholars. It will be a good addition to research collections in economics, regional development and public policy.’
– Adrian Bull, Annals of Tourism Res...