Zhu, Kai Zhou, Quan Cheng, Yufeng Zhang, Youtian Li, Ting Yan, Xiaoyue Alimov, Atabek Farmanov, Erkin Dávid, Lóránt Dénes
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
The relationship between the tourism economy and the ecological environment is under pressure, and balancing this relationship is crucial for promoting regional sustainability. In this study, the Yangtze River basin, the first largest river in Asia and third largest in the world, was selected as the focus area. The spatial and temporal characterist...
Rinn, Radek Kalábová, Markéta Jarský, Vilém
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
Tourism has experienced dynamic development in recent decades and has become one of the fastest growing industries; however, the COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented changes and declines in revenues and tourism trends. With the strong support of bioeconomy (BE) this period brings a great opportunity to transform the entire tourism sector into a m...
Strzelecka, Marianna Prince, Solene Boley, B. Bynum
Despite the growing literature arguing for the consideration of community perspectives in tourism destination governance, little is understood about how residents' connection to nature affects their perceptions of and responses to tourism. This is especially relevant for rural areas rich in nature as many of them have become refugees for urban dwel...
Mendoza Mendoza, Blanca Villacreses Viteri, Juan Vera Vera, José Rengel Vega, Paola
Sustainable tourism has become a paradigm for the development of a community at a global scale. For this reason, the objective of this work was to build strategies for the sustainable management of tourism activities in the Manglar Route located in the Costa Rica community in Ecuador. First, a diagnosis was carried out to analyze the current situat...
von Saltza, Emelia Kittinger, John N.
Published in
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Conservation in the Anthropocene requires financing that is commensurate to the scale of threats to ecosystems and the benefits they provide humanity. To meet this challenge, new financing models are needed at a diversity of scales to help support the protection of nature. Visitor green fees – or payments made by visitors to management authorities,...
Napierała, Tomasz Leśniewska-Napierała, Katarzyna Al-Rawhani, Mohammed Bayramdurdyyev, Rovshen Bugaj, Hubert Cetin, Abdurrahman Gonzalvo, Joromain
The core values of sustainability should be emphasised: economic development, social inclusion, equity as well as diversity, and environmental protection. Those values should be reflected in various characteristics of studies on sustainable tourism. And this is the question we ask in our paper: are the studies of sustainable tourism sustainable? To...
Assumma, Vanessa Bottero, Marta Cassatella, Claudia Cotella, Giancarlo
Tourism may be an important leverage for local development. At the same time, it may trigger unwanted effects, ranging from the congestion of services and infrastructures to the progressive deterioration of the assets that they plan to valorise. The article sheds light on this tension, discussing the multiple implications that increasing tourism fl...
Chenavaz, Régis Leocata, Marta Ogonowska, Malgorzata Torre, Dominique
Current approach to the management of World Heritage sites and the associated tourism is not always effective. Indeed, operators of Chteau de Versailles, Alhambra, and Vatican Palace trade-off visitors' revenues against damage to these sites. We study the effective dynamic behavior of a firm managing a heritage site. In an optimal control model, th...
Doran, Rouven Bø, Simen Hanss, Daniel
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Frontiers in Psychology
A sample of tourists (N = 780) responded to a survey addressing purchasing intentions and consumption motives in relation to buying sustainable groceries at a local food market. These intentions and motives were contrasted for two consumption contexts: on vacation vs. at home. An initial analysis of the data indicated that self-reported purchasing ...
Rahimian, Mehdi Masoudi Rad, Mandana Zareei, Hossein
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Frontiers in Public Health
Most tourism researchers agree on the effects of the COVID-19 on ecotourism. The present study aims to assess the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ecotourism status in Lorestan province in Iran. To this aim, 29 effects were identified using Delphi technique. According to results, the effects were divided into six categories including the dec...
