This title provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of ecotourism. Emphasing planning and assessment, it enables the reader to understand industry trends, outline and compare planning and policy tools and understand and assess impacts of tourism.

Ecotourism aims to focus the discussion of Ecotourism on the management and assessment of sites, destinations, communities and resources. The text can be used to give a theoretical underpinning to the subject and provide an applied perspective through the use of rich, varied and international case studies.