"This handbook presents a timely, broad-ranging and provocative overview of the essential nature of ecotourism. The chapters will both advance the existing central themes of ecotourism and provide challenging and divergent observations that will thrust ecotourism into new areas of research,...

Critical thinking is recognised as a necessary central competency of university graduates in a variety of professional fields. Many articles identify and expound on the need for critical thinking pedagogy allied with sound moral and ethical thought and behaviour. This paper seeks to identify the...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the hotel selection preferences of vegetarians in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach: The questionnaire used in this study had four main sections: animal and environmentally friendly hotel attributes; hotel features and facilities; hotel...

This paper replicates a study by Fennell (1990) which found that a sample of ecotourists to Costa Rica was statistically different from the average Canadian tourist along a number of attraction and benefit dimensions. This 1990 study is compared against a sample of Canadian ecotourists who...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Tourism in North America / Hashimoto, Atsuko -- Chapter 2. Demand for Tourism in North America / Smith, Stephen / Timothy, Dallen J. -- Chapter 3. Supply and Organization of Tourism in North America /...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Boxes, Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Human Nature -- 3. The Basis of Ethical Discourse -- 4. Applications of Ethics -- 5. The Nature of Politics and Economics -- 6. The Business Side of Ethics -- 7. Ethics and the Natural...