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Record Nr.

UNINA9910446324403321

Titolo

River tourism / / edited by Bruce Prideaux and Malcolm Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK, : CABI, c2009

ISBN

1-282-07043-6

9786612070433

1-84593-469-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PrideauxB (Bruce)

CooperMalcolm <1946->

Disciplina

338.4/791091693

Soggetti

River tourism

Ecotourism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introducing River Tourism: Physical, Ecological and Human Aspects; 2 River Tourism in the South Asian Subcontinent; 3 River-based Tourism in the USA: Tourism and Recreation on the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers; 4 The Mekong: Developing a New Tourism Region; 5 River Tourism: Sailing the Nile; 6 European Waterways as a Source of Leisure and Recreation; 7 The Yangzi River Tourism Zone; 8 Fishing the 'Big Rivers' in Australia's Northern Territory: Market Diversification for the Daly River; 9 The Amazon: a River Tourism Frontier

10 River Heritage: the Murray-Darling River11 White-water Tourism; 12 Basin-based Governance for Integrated Water Resources Management: Prospects and Challenges; 13 Sustainable Water Resources and Water Security; 14 'The River City'? Conflicts in the Development of a Tourism Destination Brand for Brisbane; 15 Conclusions and Challenges; Index

Sommario/riassunto

River tourism accounts for a significant proportion of the world's tourism consumption, with activities such as Nile cruises and rafting holidays making it an economically important area of tourism. This book explores river tourism from a range of perspectives including uses, heritage, management, environmental concerns, and marketing.