1st Edition
Ecotourism Horizons From Community Empowerment to Global Perspectives
Introduction
Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan, Aliana Man Wai Leong and Tao Ma
Part I: Global insights on community-based ecotourism
1. Homestays’ contribution to community-based ecotourism in the Himalayan region of India
Priya Bhalla, Alexandra Coghlan and Prodyut Bhattacharya
2. Community-based ecotourism managing to fuel community empowerment? An evidence from Malaysian Borneo
Velan Kunjuraman
3. Community-based ecotourism and the transformative learning of homestay hosts in Cambodia
Vicheth Sen and Pierre Walter
4. Gender analysis in community-based ecotourism
Pierre Walter
Part II: Global insights on ecotourism
5. Experiences and value perceptions of an ecotourism trip – an empirical study of outbound Chinese tourists
Ting (Tina) Li, Fang Liu and Geoffrey N. Soutar
6. Rapid ecotourism development and challenges: the case of ecolodge in Iran
Hamid Reza Irani, Mehdi Golverdi, Raymond Rastegar and Soheil Rezaei
7. Ecotourism in Yancheng Wetland, China
Feifei Xu and Geoffrey Wall
8. Ecotourism in Gangotri region of the Garhwal Himalayas
Gitanjali Chaturvedi
9. Globalization, ecotourism and the promise of development in sub-Saharan Africa
Andrew Lepp
10. Local initiatives to localize ecotourism: an exploratory study in Kerwa, Van Vihar National
Park catchments
K. Bhattacharya, Suchitra Banerjee and Vandana Saksena
11. Ecotourism issues and options for New Zealand
Ross Cullen, Kay Booth and Ken Hughey
12. Ecotourism in the Australian and New Zealand sub-Antarctic Islands
C. Michael Hall
Biography
Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan is Professor at National Chiayi University, Taiwan. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Recreation Research and a member of the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) Panel of Tourism Experts. He has been honored by the 2011-2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, the 2013, 2017, and 2018 Emerald Literati Awards, and the 2018 Publons Peer Review Award.
Aliana Man Wai Leong is Associate Vice-President for International Affairs and Dean, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the School of Liberal Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), China. She is also the former Dean of the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management, MUST. She has been honored as one of the "Top Ten Most Influential Teachers in China's Tourism and Hospitality Education" and one of the "Top Ten Most Influential Teachers in National Tourism Institutions."
Tao Ma is Professor at the School of Management and the Dean of the Business School at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His research interests include regional industrial planning and the economic analysis of resources and energy. He is recognized as a "Youth Talent" under the National Cultural Masters and Four Batches Talent Project by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and serves as the Chief Expert for major projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China.
