Mountaineering Adventure Tourism and Local Communities

Social, Environmental and Economics Interactions

• Author(s): Apollo, Michal, Andreychouk, Viacheslav,
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Pages: 178
• ISBN_10: 1802209387
  ISBN_13: 9781802209389
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism , Social Science / Human Geography ,

Description:... This timely book explores how hiking, trekking and climbing mountains, increasingly popular leisure activities, can stimulate change and create opportunities for sustainable development. Using empirical evidence from interviews held in the Himalayas combined with a theoretical grounding, it focuses on the socio-economic and environmental issues of the impact of mountaineering adventure tourism on local communities.