Cover -- Sustainable Tourism III -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Section 1: Tourism strategies -- Prospective analysis for sustainable tourism in a coastal region of the Gulf of California -- Enhancing services provision in urban greenspaces through tourism promotion: the case of the private patios in Central America -- Current status of marine leisure activities in Japan -- Nautical tourism - the advantages and effects of development -- The landscape as a source of inspiration for painters: paintings as a source of inspiration for land development? -- Tourist navigation through historical sites: the spatial analysis approach -- Sustainable tourism development: ingenuity in marketing strategy -- Current condition of tourism exchange between Taiwan and Hokuriku district and its promotive measure -- Mediterranean standard for sustainable tourism (MESST) - general requirements, objectives and the philosophy of MESST -- Section 2: Community involvement -- Methods, tools and techniques for measuring sustainability in tourism based communities -- Communication and public participation processes in the sustainable tourism planning of the first capital of the Californias -- Building community through socially responsible tourism: a collaborative success in the Dominican Republic -- The role of student volunteers in tourism and building up a sustainable operating system - the "Providing Information and Knowledge Model" and the "Common Pleasure Model" -- Section 3: Tourism as a factor of development -- A case study of the hospitality network relationship in the Campinas Region, Brazil -- An opportunity missed in tourism-led regeneration: Sulukule -- Tourism in the rust belt: using the past as an economic development strategy -- Section 4: Climate change and tourism.

Climate change in winter sport destinations - transdisciplinary research for implementing sustainable tourism -- Climate change and local awareness: a comparative study on tourism stakeholders in Zandvoort (NL) and Costa del Sol (ES) -- Section 5: Tourism impact -- Tourist development and the environment: the case of Cephalonia and Ithaca -- Ecological footprint: a way to assess the impact of tourists' choices at the local scale -- Valuing water in dry land tourism regions -- Section 6: Tourism and protected areas -- Recreation suitability analysis: application in protected and non-protected areas -- Ecotourism and sustainability in community-driven ecological restoration: case studies from New Zealand -- Marketing of sustainable products by free time experiences in holiday houses -- Section 7: Rural tourism -- An analysis of research developments and opportunities in tourism, poverty alleviation and nature conservation -- The role of geotourism in supporting regeneration in disadvantaged rural communities in Ireland -- Rural architecture, tourism and simulacra -- From biological diversity to cultural diversity: a proposal for rural tourism in Mexico -- Rural tourism and processes of cultural heritage manufacture -- Characteristics and issues of rural tourism in Japan -- Section 8: Risk and safety -- New risks ahead for the Historical Peninsula, the mystic gateway of Istanbul to the World -- Slope instability along some sectors of the road to La Bufadora -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.