Environmental Management and the Competitiveness of Nature-Based Tourism Destinations

by Jeff Bennett and Twan Huybers

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 increasing demand. The aim of this book is to provide an assessment of the relative importance of these two opposing effects in the context of a case study of nature-based tourism in Tropical North Queensland, Australia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840648902
• ISBN13: 9781840648904
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages