Specialist tourist police units are a recent development in many countries where tourism is important to the economy and where crimes associated with tourism are recognized. However, such developments are scarcely universal. ...

Increase in the number of people living in poverty in the world has led to an increasing search for strategies to address the situation, and tourism has been identified as one of the relevant tools for reducing poverty. ...

Ecotourism has, over the past three decades, been employed globally as a tool to secure a balance between the need for environmental preservation and the sustenance of the communities which depend directly on it. Consequently, ...