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Ecotourism is considered the fastest growing market in the tourism industry, according to the World Tourism Organisation with an annual growth rate of 5 per cent worldwide and representing 6 per cent of the world gross domestic product, 11.4 percent of all consumer spending-not a market to be taken lightly. Eco-tourism focuses on local cultures, wilderness adventures, volunteering, personal growth and learning new ways to live on our vulnerable planet. ...
Nowadays tourism has developed into a global phenomenon, which has become a basic need that involves hundreds of people, involving agents in tourism activity, either the governmental society, tourism industry or public society. Almost all of the modern countries, either the advanced countries or developing countries in the world in this 21st century has established tourism as a sector in their economical, social, and cultural devel0opment. This book provides ...
This book in the series focusing on the origins and developments of the various sciences concentrates its focus on environmental science. Environmental science came alive as a substantive, active field of scientific investigation in the 1960s and 1970s. This was driven by the need for a large multi-disciplined team to analyse complex environmental problems, the arrival of substantive environmental laws requiring specific environmental protocols of investigation, ...