Tourism is a large, diffuse global industry. Environmental aspects are little studied, with ∼1,500 publications in total. Impacts range from global contributions to climate change and ocean pollution to localized effects on endangered plant and animal species in protected areas. Environmental...

Many independent travellers read and rely on the Lonely Planet® destination guidebooks. In 2006, the company published two global selections which effectively define its perspectives on concepts such as adventure, cultural and ecotourism, responsible tourism and triple bottom line approaches....

Connectivity is one key to conservation under anthropogenic climate change. Shortfalls in financial and political support are more critical constraints than deficiencies in biological data. This applies especially for private lands in developed nations and public lands in developing nations....

Local politics at Byron Bay on Australia’s east coast have led to misunderstanding and misrepresentation of the likely effects of climate change on sea-level and coastal erosion. A voting bloc of self proclaimed “green” members of the local government authority (LGA) has adopted policies...

This review examines what outcomes ecotourism has achieved in regard to environmental issues. It proposes an analytic framework distinguishing four types of mechanism: those which can generate positive effects; those which can reduce negative effects; those which can increase negative effects;...

Communications is a complex phenomenon, and communications involving tourists have been examined from many different perspectives. This contribution aims to extend our understanding by focusing on the role of operational workplace health and safety communications within retail adventure tourism...