PDF: Practical, profitable, protected: A starter guide to developing sustainable tourism in protected areas
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Europarc Federation (2012). Practical, profitable, protected: A starter guide to developing sustainable tourism in protected areas. Latvia: European Centre for Eco and Agro Tourism in partnership with the EUROPARC Federation, 84 pp.
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Summary
This book is a practical manual on how to develop and manage
tourism in protected areas. It is for all those responsible for the
management of protected areas as tourism destinations.
These include not only protected-area managers but also local
authorities, tourism promotion agencies and tourism
business associations.
It focuses on protected areas that are in an early stage of their
tourism development and wish to do this in a well-planned and
sustainable manner. Examples of such areas are the more than
26,000 Natura 2000 sites which have recently been recognised
by 27 European countries. This manual brings together
state-of-the-art knowledge and experiences from different parts
of Europe and can serve as a basic reference document.
This manual was developed and published with financial
support of the LIFE+ programme, a European Union programme
supporting environmental and nature conservation throughout
the EU. Produced by a team of Europe’s leading experts, this
manual combines expertise from EUROPARC Consulting,
bringing in more than 30 years of experience in developing
tourism in Europe’s leading protected areas; the European
Centre for Eco and Agro Tourism (ECEAT), adding the perspective
of the tourism sector and entrepreneurs; and the Latvian
Country Tourism Association (Lauku Ceļotājs) contributing the
specific lessons learned in the frame of the LIFE+ POLPROP
-NATURA (LIFE07ENV/LV/000981) project which aimed at the
creation of a model for sustainable tourism development in the
Latvian Slītere National Park. Many of the best practices and
case studies in this manual are based on this Sustainable
Tourism Model.
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