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Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? WASHINGTON D.C., August 6, 2008: The Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development (CESD) is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Ecotourism and Sustainable Development: Who Owns Paradise? by CESD Co-Director, Dr. Martha Honey. First published in 1999, Who Owns Paradise? has been highly acclaimed as the most comprehensive study of both the theory and practice of ecotourism. In the new edition, Honey updates her original chapter-length case studies on Costa Rica, the Galapagos, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, and South Africa, and adds a fascinating new chapter – the first ever analysis of ecotourism in the United States. In the three opening chapters, Honey examines how ecotourism emerged in the late 1970s as a reaction to growing concerns about the negative social, environmental, and economic impacts of mainstream tourism. By the early 1990s, ecotourism was said to be the fastest growing sector of the tour ism industry, and today, it is reportedly growing three times faster than the industry as a whole. The new edition, which took four years to complete and involved a team of some dozen researchers spread across all the case study countries, marks a major rewrite of the original book. “It is stunning how much ecotourism has grown over the last decade,” says Honey. “I quickly found that I couldn’t simply do a new edition by revising statistics and dates. Rather, whole new concepts, trends, and terms have recently emerged within the field of ecotourism.” This edition covers, for instance, the growth of ‘green’ certification programs that measure environmental and social impacts of tourism businesses and the emergence of travelers’ philanthropy as a form of development assistance flowing from tourism businesses and travelers to social and environmental projects in host communities. It also examines new varieties of ecotourism such as voluntourism (holidays that include service projects), agritourism (which encompasses protection of family farms, the Slow Food Movement, and

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organics), and sustainable tourism (which incorporates some of ecotourism’s principles and good practices into mainstream tourism businesses). The new volume describes recent ecotourism events, most importantly the United Nations’ International Year of Ecotourism in 2002 which, Honey argues, signified that ecotourism had “evolved from a good idea in the 1970s into, by the new millennium, a global economic tool for poverty alleviation and environmental protection.” The most important current development, says Honey, “is ecotourism’s response to the threat of global warming. This includes adopting new technologies and architectural designs that reduce dependence on fossil fuels and the promotion of credible carbon offset programs to mitigate the impacts of air travel by providing funds to protect forests and support the development of clean energy.” Honey is no detached academic or armchair travel writer. Rather she is fully engaged in the topic, as co-founder and Co-Director of CESD, a policy oriented research center with offices in Washington, DC and at Stanford University. She also served for four years as Executive Director of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES). Prior to TIES, Honey observed firsthand the emergence of ecotourism while living and working for two decades in Tanzania and Costa Rica as a foreign correspondent. The book, published by Island Press and bearing the CESD logo, is the first in a new series of CESD books. The second in the series, Ecotourism and Conservation in the Americas by Dr. Amanda Stronza and Dr. William Durham will be published later in 2008 by CABI Press. Dr. Durham, Bing Professor in Human Biology and Anthropology at Stanford University, is co-founder and Co-Director of CESD. Dr. Stronza is Assistant Professor in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences, and Co-Director of the NSF-IGERT program in Applied Biodiversity Sciences at Texas A&M University. Island Press Executive Editor Todd Baldwin says pre-publication sales of the new edition have been brisk and he predicts the new edition will be as popular as its predecessor with academics, environmentalists, development agencies, journalists, and ordinary travelers. See the following page to order a copy or order online at www.islandpress.org. Paper copies are $29.50 and cloth copies are $60.00 plus shipping. For press interviews, contact Martha Honey via email at mhoney@ecotourismcesd.org or by telephone at 202-347-9203, ext 41 3. For press and academic review copies, please contact Island Press at 202-232-7933.

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Ecotourism and Sustainable DevelopmentWho Owns Paradise?

Ecotourism and Sustainable Development is the most comprehensive overview of worldwide ecotourism available today, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved over more than twenty-five years. Here Honey revisits six na-tions she profiled in the first edition—the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, and South Africa—and adds a fascinating new chapter on the United States. She examines the growth of ecotourism within each country’s tour-ism strategy, its political system, and its changing economic policies. Her useful case studies highlight the economic and cultural impacts of expanding tourism on indigenous populations as well as on ecosystems.

Honey is not a “travel writer.” She is an award-winning journalist and reporter who lived in East Africa and Central America for nearly twenty years. Since writ-ing the first edition of this book, she has led the International Ecotourism Society and founded a new center to lead the way to responsible ecotourism. Her experi-ence and her expertise resonate throughout this beautifully written and highly informative book.

Martha Honey

Martha Honey Ph. D. is co-director of the Center on Ecotourism and Sustain-able Development and author of Ecotourism and Certification: Setting Standards in Practice (Island Press, 2002). Previously she worked as a freelance journalist in Latin America and Africa for The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Associated Press, ABC-TV, and the BBC. She has received numerous awards for her investigative journalism.

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