Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas - Guidelines for Sustainability

A publication in the IUCN Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series

Project sponsors: IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammerarbeit (GIZ) on behalf the Federal German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. North Carolina State University Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management provided significant in-kind support.

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The 2016 Sustainable Tourism Best Practice Guidelines Book

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• Table of Contents and Book References (under revision)
• Download the IUCN Publications Committee Review Copy of the 2016 Guidelines Book (ver. 8 October 2015)
• Full Text of the Published 2016 Guidelines Book (Acrobat PDF format) [ English | Deutsch | Français | Español ] (forthcoming 2015)

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