Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas - Guidelines for Sustainability

Project Overview

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 and International Development. North Carolina State University Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management provided significant in-kind support.

Project Outputs

• Leung, Y.-F., Spenceley, A., Hvenegaard, G., & Buckley, R. (eds.) (2018). Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Sustainability. IUCN Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 27. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN (English version in Acrobat PDF format; Coming Soon!)
• Chinese, French, German, and Spanish versions forthcoming this year.
• Editors and Contributors

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