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Management
2022
A “New Tourism” approach i.e. Responsible Tourism (RT) has gained a lot of traction in the past few decades, implying an effective and efficient tourism management strategy with a clear understanding of creating tourist destinations "a better place for the locals to live in"; while providing an excellent tourist destination for the visitors to enjoy a quality vacation. This article discusses the objectives and salient features of Responsible Tourism highlights a few successful Responsible Tourism models/initiatives around the world, as well as the challenges of successful implementation of Responsible Tourism at various Tourist Destinations.

Social & Cultural
2021
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) presents its thematic report "Right to Self-Determination of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples" in which it recognizes the current demands of indigenous and tribal peoples, analyzes international standards, and makes recommendations to States with the aim of contributing to efforts to recognize and implement the right to self-determination. This report is part of the strategic plan of the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which seeks to make visible practices, experiences, and challenges that these peoples face in the recognition and exercise of this right.

Social & Cultural
2010
In this study, the problem of representations and resident cultural identity in indigenous tourism is explored. In consideration of the generative nature of representations and the contingency of subjectivities toward them, this study is context-specific, focusing on a small but significant community in southern Taiwan where indigenous tourism is a dominant industry and social issue.

Social & Cultural
2014
Expressing a visual, indigenous identity in tourism can be a balancing act between maintaining a level of recognition and familiarity that mirrors the expectations of the public imagination and conveying a representation that is locally meaningful and emblematic to hosts. This article addresses this issue through the example of the Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) of British Columbia.

Management
2022
A list of five tips that non-Indigenous people can support Indigenous peoples: education, support your Indigenous friends and colleagues, amplify Indigenous voices, support Indigenous entrepreneurship and businesses, and follow the Call to Actions in TRC report.

Social & Cultural
2021
This paper delves into background information about development, tourism, and identity, then explores how the three factors interact in Yanque, a small town in Central Peru. By examining the narratives of Yanque residents, this paper reveals that tourism has negatively impacted the cultural identity of Yanque because identity is manipulated and defined from "above" through the national branding strategies of the country. This paper also identifies three negative impacts on cultural identity: 1) community members are marginalized; 2) culture is es-sentialized and commodified, and 3) traditions, customs, and values are negatively impacted.

Environment
2015
This Plos One article compiled a globally-representative database of visits to Protected Areas (PAs) and built region-specific models predicting visit rates from PA size, local population size, remoteness, natural attractiveness, and national income to display the high value that PAs provide, and call for its increased investment and preservation.

Management
2017
This collaborative One Planet, IUCN WCPA TAPAS Group, and PUP Global Heritage Consortium webinar brings awareness to the challenges of high levels of visitors in protected areas, reviews what has lead to this challenge and provides forward looking solutions to over tourism in protected areas.

Management
2019
Approaching the issue of overtourism, this article provides sustainable tourism practices for tour operators to incorporate

Environment
2018
This Routledge book provides an in-depth analysis of the rights and welfare of humans and wild animals as the two relate to one another within the sphere of leisure studies. This book provides a forum for future considerations of wild animals and leisure and a voice for animal welfarist agendas that seek to improve the conditions under which wild animals interact with and are engaged with by humans.