Elephant Tourism Business, The (eBook)

Eric Laws, Noel Scott, Xavier Font, John Koldowski (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-78924-588-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Elephant tourism is a growing attraction across Asia and Africa and is popular with many tourists. This book highlights the need for a comprehensive and rigorous focus on local solutions to improve the welfare of captive elephants and tourists' experiences of elephant tourism, which will be to the benefit of local communities

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Elephant tourism is a growing activity in many countries across Asia and Africa and is popular with tourists from all parts of the world. Elephant tourism has grown rapidly, providing the only viable way for elephants and their owners to survive since the banning of logging. Old logging camps have been developed into sanctuaries for some elephants, but many other camps were established as entertainment centres, resulting in serious welfare issues for the elephants and their mahouts. The profits from elephant tourism in Asia have encouraged African operators to follow a similar business model.

This book draws attention to the need for a comprehensive and rigorous focus on local solutions to improve the welfare of captive elephants, their mahouts and local residents, and to enhance tourists' experiences of elephant tourism. It achieves this by:

- Critically reviewing recent research into elephant tourism.
- Providing contemporary analytical case studies of elephant tourism policy and practice.

The Elephant Tourism Business will contribute to a better understanding of how elephant tourism is organised, regulated and promoted, both in elephant areas and tourist origin countries. It identifies priorities for future research into elephant tourism and provides a unique, authoritative resource for researchers, elephant managers and administrators, and tourism managers.

The book will be of interest to academics and practitioners with backgrounds in conservation, the environment, tourism and veterinary sciences, and will appeal to tourists keen to experience elephants in person.

Rezensionen

This is a very timely book which, whilst focusing on a single species and tourism, actually challenges us in our views of tourism in a range of natural and cultural settings. I liked the book immensely and recommend it as an extremely useful point of reference in regard to the nexus between vulnerable species, dependent local communities, and visitors seeking authentic interactions with icon animal species.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2020
• Co-Autor: Ann Suwaree Ashton, Liv Baker, Sumanth Bindumadhav, Sarah Blaine, Eric Brymer, Naphawan Chantradoan, Saranphat Chotmanakul, Qingming Cui, Susanna Curtin, Charlotte Day, Nilakshi Galahitiyawe, Vivek Gurusamy, Xavier Font, Nicole Hausler, Jeffrey Dale Hobbs, Claire Jenkinson, John Koldowski, Naut Kusters, Eric Laws, Shilpa Mahbubani, Andrew McLean, Mucha Mkono, Somyot Ongkhluap, Anja Pabel, Piengpen Na Pattalung, Clive Phillips, Kannapa Pongponrat, Bongkosh Rittichainuwat, John Edward Roberts, Andrea Saayman, Melville Saayman, Jan Schmidt-Burbach, Noel Scott, Alokparna Sengupta, Vinathe Sharma-Brymer, Ramona Strödecke, Daminda Sumanapala, Daniel Turner, Marjorie Van Strein, Rebecca Winkler, Isabelle Wolf, Honggang Xu
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: animals as tourist attractions • captive elephant welfare • elephant industry organisation • elephant industry regulation • elephants in local culture • Elephant tourism • elephant tourism business PDF • elephant tourism PDF • Environmental Responsibility • ethics • mahout traditions and skills • origins of elephant tourism • sustainability • tourist expectations of elephant visits • tourist experiences of elephant visits • Wildlife viewing
• ISBN-10: 1-78924-588-5 / 1789245885
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78924-588-2 / 9781789245882