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Ecotourism Certification Programs: Overview, History, and Impacts.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ecotourism Certification Programs: Overview, History, and Impacts./
Author:	Davila, Ryan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	310 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-07, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-07B.
Subject:	Sustainability. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28153040
ISBN:	9798557027243

Ecotourism Certification Programs: Overview, History, and Impacts.
Davila, Ryan.

Ecotourism Certification Programs: Overview, History, and Impacts. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 310 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-07, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Prior to the COVID-19 global pandemic, ecotourism represented the tourism industry's fastest growing segment with projections estimating that ecotourism would become the world's largest tourism type by 2030. While the tourism industry will need several years to rebound, if historic trends tell us anything, it is that ecotourism will continue to represent a large portion of the overall industry and will continue to grow at a rate that outpaces all other tourism types. In theory, ecotourism promotes sustainable socioeconomic development while also minimizing negative environmental impacts. Unfortunately, research suggests that this is not always true, and many examples exist of ecotourism causing more harm than good. In order to combat these potential negative impacts, the ecotourism industry has become increasingly reliant on ecotourism certification programs to act as an assessment tool that identifies ecotourism's best practitioners while minimizing false advertising present within the industry. Despite these beliefs in the efficacy of certification, there is a lack of empirical research to actually support certification as an effective assessment tool. Furthermore, little research has been conducted that assesses the impacts that certification itself has on ecotourism businesses (both certified and uncertified) and the local communities dependent on ecotourism. My dissertation employs a mixed methods design and combines qualitative and quantitative research methods spanning multiple geographic scales to develop an understanding of certification programs as they exist today and to discern the impacts that certification itself may cause for all those either directly or indirectly involved in ecotourism. My findings ultimately suggest that certification reform is needed if certification programs are expected to be the assessment tool ecotourism experts claim them to be. Specifically, as certification exists presently, there is: no universal guideline or standard for existing certification programs to follow, a disconnect between the advertised benefits certification offers and the actual benefits received, and a lack of market penetration both amongst ecotourists and ecotourism businesses. Each of these must be addressed before certification can live up to its full potential. Furthermore, I found that certification may impact community socioeconomic dynamics, particularly by creating or exacerbating community wealth distribution.

ISBN: 9798557027243Subjects--Topical Terms:

1029978
Sustainability.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Ecotourism

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