This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the themes and concepts related to nature-based tourism development. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading researchers, academics and practitioners across the globe, it delivers a critical and timely contribution to the knowledge around nature-based tourism.

Ante Mandi¿, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Tourism at the Department of Tourism and Economy, Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, University of Split, Croatia. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Department, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University. He serves as a manager of the SmartCulTour Living Lab and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Ecotourism. He is a member of the Executive Committee and coordinator of Knowledge Development at the International Union for Conservation of Nature - World Commission for Protected Areas TAPAS.

His teaching predominately focuses on sustainable tourism development. In his research, he pays attention to heritage destinations, particularly protected and conserved natural areas. He has published a number of academic papers in his field in respectful international journals as well as book chapters and books. Dr Mandi¿ has extensive experience working as a researcher or educator on international projects founded by INTERREG MEDITERRANEAN (ShapeTourism; BluTour System; Co-Evolve; DESTIMED (educator) and also the HORIZON 2020 program (SmartCulTour)).

Sandeep K. Walia, PhD is presently working as Professor and Deputy Dean in the School of Hotel Management and Tourism at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He is an alumnus of Himachal Pradesh University Shimla and IGNOU, New Delhi. Dr Walia is associated as Visiting Faculty to School of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management, Universiti Utara Malaysia Kedah (a QS-ranked University), Malaysia, and Himalayan Institutes of Alternative Learning (an upcoming Mountain University) in Leh, Laddakh, as Curriculum Development/Board of Studies Expert and Visiting Faculty. His areas of interest are community-based tourism, tourism marketing and cultural tourism. He has worked as Program Director/ Paper Coordinator for the subject Aviation Industry - Ticketing and Frontier Formalities and developed E-content under MHRD Sponsored UGC Project titled EPG Pathshala for the online learning of Postgraduate Level. He has also acted as a faculty coordinator for Peer to Peer: Facebook Global Digital Challenge Spring 2017. Dr Walia is Founder Editor in Chief of the Tourism and Hospitality Research Review (International Journal of LPU), and the Managing Editor and Editor for the journals Tourism Dimensions and Tourism Spectrum (both international refereed journals). He has authored 9 books and 15 research papers in various Scopus and ABDC Journals.

Introduction & Organisation of the Book

Dr Ante Mandi¿ & Dr. Sandeep K Walia

Section-1- Nature-Based Tourism: Concepts and Emerging Challenges

Chapter-1- Nature-based tourism: before, during and after COVID- 19

David Newsome & Priyan Perera

Chapter-2- The most vulnerable and least heard: Advocating for animal justice in tourism.

Sheppard, V.A. & Fennell, D.A

Chapter-3- A Critical Inquiry into the Sustainability of NBT: Responsibility of the Traveler

Bengi Ertuna, Burcin Kalabay Hatipoglu, Emre Cantekinler, Selen Dä, Burcu Ormanl¿o¿lu & Serçin Dilem ¿enkal

Chapter-4- A case-story of the connection between woodlands, landscape and nature-based recreation in upland England

Sara V. Iversen, Naomi K. van der Velden & Ian Convery

Chapter-5- Cooperation in niches of the nature-based tourism industry- The case of mountain guiding in Norway.

Kristin Løseth

Chapter-6- Ecotourism, wildlife festivals, and sustainability: Are objectives, strategies, and outcomes aligned?

Glen Hvenegaard

Chapter-7- The role of the local community in the repositioning process of Taranto as a sustainable tourist destination.

Sonia Ferrari & Nicolaia Iaffaldano

Section-2-Management and Planning of Nature-Based Tourism Development

Chapter-8- Furthering Protected Area Tourism and Visitor Management and Planning. Synthesis study of Croatian experiences with proposals for improving the framework

Hrvoje Cari¿

Chapter-9- Approaches to Foresight Recreation and Tourism in Nature - Experiences from the Nordic Region

Peter Fredman, Tuija Sievänen, Frank S. Jensen, Vegard Gundersen, Sandra Wall-Reinius, Maria Lexhagen, Christine Lundberg, Klas Sandell, Odd Inge Vistad & Daniel Wolf-Watz

Chapter-10- Transport infrastructure development knocks on nature-based tourism door: the case of isolated communities of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Asif Hussain & Francesc Fusté-Forné

Chapter-11- Digital technologies in trail-related recreation: future challenges for trail development

Goda Lukoseviciute, Luís Nobre Perreira & Thomas Panagopoulos

Chapter-12- Fostering Stakeholder Engagement in Sustainable Cultural Tourism Development in Nature-Based Sites: A Case Study on Using Methodological Layering of Art-Based Methods

Dr. Hong Li, Dr. Monika Lüthje, Ella Björn & Dr. Satu Miettinen

Chapter-13- The Provision of sustainable wildlife experiences: The role of the wildlife watching tourism guides

Hilde Nikoline Hambro Dybsand & Peter Fredman

Chapter-14- The Roles of Tour Guides in Nature Based Tours

Gül Erkol Bayram

Chapter-15- Business networking in the field of nature-based tourism: Key factors for successful management

Marios Sotiriadis & Ziyi Yan

Section-3 -Visitor Experience Design and Management

Chapter-16- The role of customer interactions for value co-creation and experience design in nature-based tourism: The case of sea kayaking

Dorthe Eide & Frank Lindberg

Chapter-17- Transformative Bird watching Tourism Experiences in the Peruvian Amazon

Sandra Sotomayor, Pablo Romo & Karen Guillén

Chapter-18- Re-designing sustainable experiences for Mount Fuji climbers: Turning peak-baggers back into pilgrims?

Thomas E. JONES, Huong, T. BUI & Michal APOLLO

Chapter-19- Towards Exclusively Inclusive Visitor Experience: The Case for Equity in Sustainable Tourism

Agnes M. Nowaczek & Carolin Seiferth

Chapter-20- Designing ecotourism experiences through co-creation: the case of small central Mediterranean islands

Karl Agius & Samantha Chaperon

Chapter- 21- A hidden playground: Airsoft-related experience design in nature-based tourism

Ivana Damnjanovi¿

Chapter-22- Linking Tourists' Visitation Satisfaction, Demographic and Travel Characteristics

John T. Mgonja

Chapter-23- Travel Characteristics, Typologies and Motivations of Nature-Based Tourists: A Literature Review

S¿la KARACAO¿LU

Chapter-24- Experiential Tourism: Nature-based Tourism Trends in India

Sneha N & Nagarjuna G

Section-4- The Impacts of Nature-Based Tourism

Chapter-25- Redefining sustainable tourism challenges and associated indicators in protected areas

Markovi¿ Vukadin Izidora; Zovko Mira & Mandi¿ Ante

Chapter-26- Sustainable Mountain Tourism Development in Foothills of Himalaya: A TISM based approach to greater resilience of nature-based destinations

Suneel Kumar; Marco Valeri; Shekhar Asthana; Geetanjali Sageena & Ante Mandi¿

Chapter-27- Hunting Tourists' Behaviors on Package Tours: The Case of Konya Province, Turkey

Vedat Acar, Nuray Y¿ld¿z, & Abdullah Tanrisevdi

Chapter-28- The first insights into the impacts associated with the development of hiking tourism in Moukhtara, Lebanon

Viana Hassan & Georges Bellos

Chapter-29- A Tourism Accommodation Perspective in a Post-pandemic Nature-Based Tourism Development Context

Günay EROL; Lec. Ay¿e DEL¿ORMANLI & Ebru Dü¿mezkalender

Chapter-30- Nature-Based Tourism and Nature Conservation: Exploring The Elements and Links

Jeetesh Kumar, Priyakrushna Mohanty & Neethiahnanthan Ari Ragavan

Section-5- The Future of Nature-Based Tourism

Chapter-31- Nature based tourism in light of COVID-19

Anna Spenceley

Chapter-32- An evaluation of Turkey's nature-based tourism agenda: policy, planning, and management

Mehmet ¿eremet & Emine Cihangir & Kübra Cihangir-Çamur

Chapter-33- Sustainable product development for visitor experiences in nature-based tourism: Applying and extending the Double Diamond Design Process

Julia N. Albrecht & Marco Haid

Chapter-34- Toward an Era of Multispecies Livelihoods in Coastal and Marine Community-based Tourism

Samuel R. Fennell, Kellen Copeland, Bastian Thomsen, Shelby Copeland & Max Duggan