Includes index.

Contents: Ecotourism management: an overview -- Ecotourism assessment: an overview -- Practical management tools and approaches for resources protection and assessment -- Indicators and risk management for ecotourism destinations -- Ecotourism certification criteria and procedures: implication for ecotourism management -- The Polar framework and its operation in an ecotourism setting -- Ecotourism policy -- Managing ecotourism in the island microstate: the case of Dominica -- The Case for an ecotourist peace park and cultural heritage corridor in the Korean demilitarized zone -- The State of nature tourism in Texas: sustaining the rural agricultural family enterprise -- Canadian aboriginal ecotourism in the North -- Marketing ecotourism: a focus on Chile -- Management of ecotourism destination through policies of investment: tne case of the Peneda-Geres National Park, Portugal -- Ecotourism planning considerations in Eastern Central Europe -- Responsible nature-based tourism planning in South Africa and commercialization of Kruger National Park -- Development of responsible tourism guidelines for South Africa -- Ecotourism in Thailand and Kenya: a private sector perspective -- Ecotourism planning and destination management in vietnam -- An Ecotourism development plan for the Abrolhos Island, Western Australia.