A brand new assessment of protected areas and their relationships to tourism in the neo-liberal twenty first century, including World Heritage Sites, National Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Private Protected Areas, looking at their management, economic impacts, values and issues.

Hubert Job is Professor of Geography and Regional Science at Würzburg University, Germany, specialising in protected areas.

Susanne Becken is Director of the Griffith Institute for Tourism, based in Australia.

Bernard Lane was founding editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and is now a consultant, advisor, writer and speaker.

1. Protected Areas in a neoliberal world and the role of tourism in supporting conservation and sustainable development: an assessment of strategic planning, zoning, impact monitoring, and tourism management at natural World Heritage Sites 2. Values in nature conservation, tourism and UNESCO World Heritage Site stewardship 3. Developing a typology of sustainable protected area tourism products 4. The effects of local context on World Heritage Site management: the Dolomites Natural World Heritage Site, Italy 5. Estimating the value of the World Heritage Site designation: a case study from Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park, Nepal 6. Private protected areas, ecotourism development and impacts on local people's well-being: a review from case studies in Southern Chile 7. Tourism concessions in National Parks: neo-liberal governance experiments for a Conservation Economy in New Zealand 8. The health and well-being impacts of protected areas in Finland 9. Operationalising both sustainability and neo-liberalism in protected areas: implications from the USA's National Park Service's evolving experiences and challenges 10. Visitor spending effects: assessing and showcasing America's investment in national parks 11. Fringe stakeholder engagement in protected area tourism planning: inviting immigrants to the sustainability conversation 12. An interview with a protected area insider