Marketing National Parks for Sustainable Tourism

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-84541-557-0
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 155 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism marketing in a national park context. It provides a framework to apply marketing principles to inform practices and guide the sustainable management of national parks and protected areas. The main themes address the foundation principles of marketing and contextualise these principles around a series of key insights and challenges related to the delivery of sustainable tourism services in national parks. The book centres on the issues faced by park managers as they address the need to manage national parks sustainably for future generations. It will be of interest to natural resource and tourism students, tourism scholars and natural resource managers as well as researchers in the areas of geography and forestry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wearing, Stephen L.

Schweinsberg, Stephen

Tower, John

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Marketing
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: An Environmental Context for Sustainable National Park Marketing

Chapter 2: Mainstream to Alternative Tourism Marketing

Chapter 3: Sustainable Tourism Marketing – A Wicked Policy Challenge for Park Managers

Chapter 4: Approaches to Marketing Ephemeral Tourist Experiences

Chapter 5: The Multifaceted Rural, Power and the Marketing of Culture through Interpretation

Chapter 6: Tragedy of the Commons or Solution for the Commons

Über Autor(innen)

Tower, John
John Tower is Senior Lecturer in Recreation and Sport Management at Victoria University, Australia. He has worked in the leisure, recreation and sport industry for over 30 years with a particular interest in community sport and recreation participation and the delivery of community sport and recreation services.

Schweinsberg, Stephen
Stephen Schweinsberg is Lecturer in Sustainable Management at the University of Technology Sydney Business School, Australia and his research focuses on tourism and rural community interactions and national park based tourism management.

Wearing, Stephen L.
Stephen L. Wearing is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia and has worked in the field for 25 years. His research interests include ecotourism, community based and volunteer tourism, environmentalism, the sociology of leisure and tourism and social sciences in protected area management.

Stephen L. Wearing is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia and has worked in the field for 25 years. His research interests include ecotourism, community based and volunteer tourism, environmentalism, the sociology of leisure and tourism and social sciences in protected area management.

Stephen Schweinsberg is Lecturer in Sustainable Management at the University of Technology Sydney Business School, Australia and his research focuses on tourism and rural community interactions and national park based tourism management.

John Tower is Senior Lecturer in Recreation and Sport Management at Victoria University, Australia. He has worked in the leisure, recreation and sport industry for over 30 years with a particular interest in community sport and recreation participation and the delivery of community sport and recreation services.