 Free
Publications
Rural Ecotourism Assessment Project (REAP), a guide for community
assessment of ecotourism
REAP is a new publication by EplerWood International. It is a guide for
community assessment of ecotourism as a tool for sustainable development.
This publication can be located and downloaded for free at
www.eplerwood.com. (422 KB, 82 pages).
REAP was originated at The International Ecotourism Society in partnership
with Programme for Belize as a means to help communities determine what is
their potential for developing a viable locally based tourism initiative,
using both community based assessment tools and market based instruments
to come to conclusions about community readiness and market interest. The
project and publication was made possible with support from the Summit
Foundation. The researchers and authors, Gail Y.B. Lash and Alison Austin
spent months working in coastal Belize to determine how community
assessment tools might work within three local communities, and they
worked hand in glove with the communities to draw the conclusions found in
the publication. This REAP document includes both a detailed methodology
and a case study analysis based on real community experiences in Belize.
It should be useful to both researchers and practitioners.
Rights and Responsibilities: Codes of Conduct for Tourism &
Indigenous and Local Communities
This TIES publication gathers existing guidelines that have been created
by indigenous advocacy groups, lodge owners, tour operators, guidebooks,
and others in the travel industry, governments, NGOs, the UN, multilateral
lending agencies, and other organisations, each offering its own
perspective on the rights held by local and indigenous peoples with regard
to tourism and the duties of different actors involved in tourism. Also
included will be several short essays on the subject by experts in various
areas of the field. This draft version of the document, jointly produced
by TIES and the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development (CESD)
was released at the World Parks Congress in Durban. This draft version of
the publication is being placed on the TIES and the Center on Ecotourism
and Sustainable Development website for comments and additions. Comments
will be solicited until November 1.
Download (2 MB) at http://www.ecotourism.org/pdf/Rights_Responsibilities.pdf
Tourism Queensland: Protecting the Great Barrier Reef's Tourism
Future Forum
Download at: http://www.tq.com.au/ecotourism/docs/reefforum072003.pdf
Certifying the uncertifiable. FSC certification of tree plantations
in Thailand and Brazil
Publisher: World Rainforest Movement, Uruguay. Free for Non Governmental
Organizations and Indigenous Peoples Organizations, others pay USD 10
(shipment included). For details please contact WRM International
Secretariat at: bookswrm@wrm.org.uy
The book examines the spread of large-scale tree monocultures
(plantations) and their certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
It rovides detailed information gathered from two case studies: one in
Brazil and one in Thailand and concludes that FSC certification of
plantations is closing the door to community-based forest management while
the certification process is characterized by inadequate information,
transparency and basic sociopolitical and environmental research.
 Top
Other
Publications
Public/Private Partnerships for Sustainable Tourism By Cooperative
Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism
The objective of this report is to provide a framework for the sustainable
development of the travel and tourism industry in the APEC region, through
public/private partnerships, and to deliver a sustainability strategy for
tourism destinations.
Details: https://www.pata.org/pub_details.cfm?pubcatid=250&pubcattopic=7&pageid=6
Nature Tourism, Conservation, and Development in Kwazulu Natal,
South Africa
by Bruce A. Aylward (Editor), et al (Paperback - July 2003)
More
Information
Australia: An Ecotraveler's Guide
by Hannah Robinson (Paperback - August 2003)
More
Information
The Competitive Destination: A sustainable tourism perspective
by J R Brent Ritchie, University of Calgary, Canada and G I Crouch,
LaTrobe University, Australia, (Hardback, July 2003, 304 Pages)
More
Information
Working with Communities - A Guide for Tourism Operators
By Tourism Queensland. The guide contains ideas for working cooperatively
to achieve mutual benefits and social sustainability.
It outlines a seven-step process to assist in establishing values, vision,
goals and objectives; targeting relevant community groups; developing an
action plan; and monitoring and promoting success in working with
communities. Twelve best practice case studies from successful Queensland
tourism businesses highlight the benefits of working with communities and
provide practical examples to put the guidelines into practice. For more
information contact the Sustainable Tourism Department via email sustainable@tq.com.au
If you wish us to review your ecotourism related
publication here for free please send a copy to us by post or by email if
it is an electronic one.
Top
|
