Cabi Managing Visitor Experiences in Nature-based Tourism

This book focuses on visitor experiences in nature-based tourism destinations by demonstrating current knowledge using empirical evidence from five continents and providing insights into conceptual issues. Presented as three topics the contents discuss Nature-based experiences in tourism, by looking at the role and relevance of nature in tourism to provide context and the uniqueness of nature-based tourism experiences (rather than looking at tourism more generally); Visitor management challenges and solution approaches, identifying and explaining relevant visitor management challenges whilst considering and, in some cases, evaluating solution approaches. Finally, Visitor experiences and destination management takes a more overarching destination management perspective that transcends the tourism product or business level and focuses on destination and generic issues like indicators or marketing implications. Case studies are research-based and contribute to our overall understanding of core issues in managing visitor experiences in nature-based tourism.