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2002 TOURISM AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: Interrrelationships, Impacts and Management Issues

23-25 October 2002
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CONTEXT

Celebrating United Nations International Year of Ecotourism and Year of the Mountains, the main aim of the symposium is to explore the interrelationships between the environment, tourism and recreation, with specific emphasis on impacts, management and planning issues.

Objectives:

  • To encourage discussion amongst environment, recreation and tourism academics, practitioners and government agencies
  • To foster debate on issues regarding the use of the environment for leisure, recreation and tourism consumption
  • To explore best practice for tourism and recreation in natural settings
  • To set research agendas and frameworks for future research on the environment, recreation and tourism

Themes and issues:

  • Ecotourism
  • Coastal zone management related to tourism
  • Alpine tourism development
  • National parks, protected areas and tourism/recreation
  • Environmental planning for tourism
  • Climate change and tourism
  • Managing tourism in natural areas
  • Tourism, the environment and Local Agenda 21
  • Tourism, natural areas and sustainable development
  • Conservation and tourism
  • Tourism in developing countries
  • The impact of foot and mouth disease