Tourism, health, well-being and protected areas

This book was conceived during the international conference on ‘Tourism and Protected Areas’ (officially, Tourism Naturally), held in Italy in October 2016. The conference involved more than 150 academic and industry professionals from 28 countries. Through this international and collective perspective, this book offers a novel compilation of global, transdisciplinary contributions that demonstrate both fundamen- tal – and partially unexplored – features of the relationship between tourism, health, wellbeing and protected areas. The book has been divided into two sections, each comprising of eight chapters. The first section focuses on exploring the challenges and opportunities to achieve sustainable human and natural ecosystems’ development through tourism.The second section forwards important discussions on the intrinsic and extrinsic relations between tourists, visitors and PAs and the health and wellbeing benefits that these and other nature-based restorative and recreational environments can have on individuals.