Tourism and development in mountain regions

Perhaps no other activity has grown over the past decades with the same speed and global dispersal as tourism. Such growth has inspired increasing dialogue among practitioners, policy-makers, academics and other tourism stakeholders about the form and function of tourism in the next millennium.
In a sense, this dialogue heralds an age of increasing consciousness. Not only are we seriously questioning the impacts of tourism on the biosphere as well as on people and their cultures and societies, but we are starting to
take more directed action toward the sustainable maintenance of precious resources.

Từ khóa: nature-based tourism, tourism and development in mountain regions, alternative tourism, smallscale tourism, mountain ecosystems, mountain regions