Planning and development in national parks and their gateway communities often transcend jurisdictional boundaries. Due to their interrelated nature, addressing development needs requires increased levels of coordination between public land management agencies, private landowners and community...

Many less developed countries, supported by international organizations and aid agencies, continue to promote tourism as a tool for development and poverty alleviation. This chapter focuses on one country, the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), where such policies are prominent, to examine how ...

In many social tourism systems, private-sector partners play a large role in social tourism provision. This begs the question: how exactly does one classify social tourism initiatives? Which conditions do providers need to meet to be classed as 'social tourism', and can profit-seeking private...

This chapter reflects on a neglected export sector in the Nigerian economy, that of tourism, in order to identify whether some refinements to the existing principles of developing tourism are merited. It then goes on to hint at both the issues that deserve consideration for future tourism...

This chapter discusses the tourism project environment, the role of private-public partnership, the tourism development process and design, as well as the possible range of project outcomes.

This book chapter seeks to: (i) explore the role of the settings approach to health promotion and the need for organizational change; (ii) discuss the importance of evidence-based practice and evaluation; (iii) describe some of the ethical issues in practising health promotion; (iv) suggest a means ...

This book chapter aims to: (i) explore the role of the epistemic and academic community of health promoters; (ii) suggest that there are new and emerging public health problems to take into account; (iii) reinforce the need to defend the radical intent of the Ottawa Charter and to develop further...

This chapter deals with the role of technical and vocation training in African tertiary agricultural education, pointing out the vital contribution of agricultural technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions in preparing youth both for employment and for further studies. The ...

This chapter takes a high-level look at who the risk managers are, what they do, the roles they play, vertical and horizontal alignment of risk management and the qualities of a good risk manager. It identifies the risk managers in two broad categories of risk: production risk, which is borne and...

This chapter provides an overview of destination management, supported by relevant theory and concepts. It covers the role of public and private sectors in destination management, planning for destination development, the formation of destination management organizations, as well as funding and...