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The Sustainability of Scuba Diving Tourism: Principles and Implications
No full textSustainable scuba diving tourism can be studied through the lens of systemic perspective that highlights the intersections between environmental, socio-cultural and economic aspects. Specifically, the key issue is how sustainable diving tourism can help restore and maintain coastal and marine ecosystems by managing the interdependent goals of recreation and resource protection. The establishment of marine protected areas is broadly considered as a milestone for the quality of underwater sites and for marine resources conservation, as well as one of the key strategies that contribute to pushing the diving system towards a path of sustainability. The systemic approach used to conceptualize the sustainable diving tourism demand advances the idea that the management of a tourism scuba diving destination and its outcomes are also related to the study of the multiple relationships between stakeholders to ensure participation in the decision-making process for the sustainability of marine resources
Chapter 21: Wellbeing Tourism in Costarainera (IM): the Giacomo Filippo Novaro Park
No full textThe chapter illustrates a case study in the Wester Ligurian Riviera, that has a historical vocation to be a therapeutical landscape-based tourism set, starting from the beginning of the XXth century. The contribution describes the Costarainera Sanatorium (built to cure respiratory sickness) and its park, that has been dismissed in the last decades. Then it illustrates the recently realized landscape project for the enhancement of a pilot-area, giving birth to the “Novaro Wellbeing Park”, with its “therapeutic rooms” in nature (based on different theories about natural therapies). It focuses on the role of this opening as a strategic phase of a further project for the valorization of the whole complex, inserted in the tourist circuit of the San Lorenzo Valley, and along the coastal bicycle pathway, Sanremo-San Lorenzo al Mare. Finally, it shows the value of the study-case, the future outlook of the intervention and its managerial challenges
Introduction: tourism, health and wellbeing and protected environments.
No full textThis introductory chapter reflects on the themes of (1) tourism and protected areas' sustainability, and (2) health and wellbeing in protected areas, before outlining the section organization of the book
Nature-based tourism and wellbeing: impacts and future outlook
No full textAll around the world, as growing numbers of tourists and recreational visitors flock to protected and other natural areas stimulated by a renewed search for physical, mental, and even spiritual health and wellbeing, different practices and behaviours emerge. This book brings together experiences and perspectives from many countries around the world. On the demand side, the experiences are united by the desire of tourists to find a real and regenerating connection in nature. On the supply side, designing and managing tourist systems that preserve natural capital in good condition requires great professionalism to dynamically maintain a fragile and delicate balance between tourists, local communities, and nature. By understanding the attitudes and emerging norms of behaviour within the context of nature-based tourism, we can begin to sketch a roadmap to enable more holistic, enjoyable, healthy and responsible visitor experiences; facilitate ecosystem conservation; contribute to the mental and physical wellbeing of tourists and outdoor recreationists; and build sustainable economies and resilient destinations and livelihoods. This book is of great relevance for academic researchers, advanced tourism and conservation students, and practitioners working in nature-based tourism and conservation, especially those with a focus on natural destinations, as well as those interested in consumer behaviour, business and management, recreation, and sustainable tourism development
Reconsidering the links between tourism, health, wellbeing and protected areas.
No full textThis concluding chapter highlights the key contributions of the book with regard to theorizing the links between tourism, health and wellbeing in protected areas
Nature-based Tourism and Wellbeing: Impacts and Future Outlook
No full textAll around the world, as growing numbers of tourists and recreational visitors flock to protected and other natural areas stimulated by a renewed search for physical, mental, and even spiritual health and wellbeing, different practices and behaviours emerge. This book brings together experiences and perspectives from many countries around the world. On the demand side, the experiences are united by the desire of tourists to find a real and regenerating connection in nature. On the supply side, designing and managing tourist systems that preserve natural capital in good condition requires great professionalism to dynamically maintain a fragile and delicate balance between tourists, local communities, and nature. By understanding the attitudes and emerging norms of behaviour within the context of nature-based tourism, we can begin to sketch a roadmap to enable more holistic, enjoyable, healthy and responsible visitor experiences; facilitate ecosystem conservation; contribute to the mental and physical wellbeing of tourists and outdoor recreationists; and build sustainable economies and resilient destinations and livelihoods. This book is of great relevance for academic researchers, advanced tourism and conservation students, and practitioners working in nature-based tourism and conservation, especially those with a focus on natural destinations, as well as those interested in consumer behaviour, business and management, recreation, and sustainable tourism development
Chapter 2. La Cavalcata Sarda: Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival
No full textThe Visitor: Connecting Health, Wellbeing and the Natural Environment
No full textThe focus of the chapter is to investigate the connection between health, well-being and the natural environment from a visitor point of view. Specifically, the chapter puts the following research questions to the forefront: how can the connection between health, well-being and the natural environment be studied and what are the resulting knowledge benefits? The chapter examines this by introducing an innovative method to study visitor experiences related to health, well-being and the natural environment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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