Thesis title: âThe development of community-based ecotourism - lumes

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1ABSTRACTTourism certification has attracted a great deal of attention during the past few yearsboth within the academic community and the tourism industry. Although it is mostlyused as a voluntary mechanism, it is regarded as one of the most promising of its kind.Notwithstanding, the potential benefits of certification for achieving sustainability intourism should not be overestimated. Moreover, community-based ecotourism is oftenpraised for the significant benefits it delivers to local people and is considered as aform of small-scale development which complies with the fundamental principles ofsustainability. This, however, does not imply that careful and integrated planning andmanagement are not necessary for the success of any ecotourism project. This paperfocuses on the issues of tourism certification and community-based ecotourism andexamines whether and under what conditions these tools can help promote sustainabletourism development in Greece.Keywords: community-based ecotourism, sustainable tourism, tourism certification,tourism ecolabels, Greece
2ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI would like to take the opportunity to thank and acknowledge all the people whohave made this thesis possible:My supervisor, Stefan Gössling, for his strong commitment and insightful guidance.Xavier Font of Leeds Metropolitan University, for the genuine interest he showed inmy work, as well as his very enlightening comments.WWF-Greece, and especially Eleni Svoronou, Marina Symvoulidou and DemetresKaravellas for the remarkable motivation, guidance and support they provided meduring the entire period of conducting and writing my research.Kostas Tziovas and Yiannis Marinos from the local WWF office in Papigo, who verywillingly guided, informed and assisted me during my visit to Zagori.Finally, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my family and friends. Theirfaith in me has been an endless source of strength and inspiration.
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