This book introduces a wide range of topics related to ecotourism, rural tourism and rural community development within Malaysia and outside of Malaysia. Among the topics include research paradigm in ecotourism research, ecotourism impacts to the local community development, ecotourism challenges and its solutions, tourist satisfaction towards ecotourism services, and others. The discussed topics in this book have been theoretically and empirically validated by the authors and provide a meaningful discussion within the ecotourism and rural community development areas. This book is timely to recognise ecotourism contributions towards rural community development issues within the selected countries done by the authors. This book is suitable for college and university students, academicians, government and private agencies, policy makers, NGOs and the general public who are interested in ecotourism and rural community development issues in developed and developing countries. Moreover, this book may be considered as a reference to those invested in ecotourism ventures as well as studies related to the ecotourism and rural community development.

Provides a single reference that integrates community planning, business planning and tourism planning, from a global and Australian perspectives. It's an important text for the many courses that incorporate aspects of community tourism into their business, tourism, social science, and art programs. Beeton from La Trobe.

Culture and heritage tourism provide an important direction in sustainable funding and tourism. Assessing the potential of cultural and heritage assets, including physical and experiential values, is crucial for the sustainability of tourism attractions and regional development. Conservation and Promotion of Heritage Tourism is a collection of innovative methods and applications to utilize historical resources to increase tourism for long-term economic security and advancement. Highlighting a range of topics including cultural tourism, community development, and tourism branding, this book is ideally designed for historians, city planners, curators, business professionals, educators, engineers, managers, tourism researchers, graduate-level students, policymakers, and academicians seeking current research on the connections between culture, conservation, sustainable development, and tourism.

A lack of entrepreneurial capacity, limited understanding of tourism markets and a lack of community understanding of tourism and its impacts have been identified as barriers to effective tourism development in peripheral regions. This book provides an analysis of this issue within tourism development practice.

Offering an overview of worldwide ecotourism, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved, this book examines the growth of ecotourism within the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya and South Africa, their political systems and their economic policies.

What is ecotourism? - Working in and with the local environment - Starting and managing a tourist business.