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?Responsible Tourism presents a wide variety of valuable lessons learned in responsible tourism initiatives in Southern Africa that many tourism practitioners can use in their efforts to make the tourism sector work for the poor and for the environment.?Dr Harsh Varma, Director, Development Assistance Department, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)?For those interested in how tourism can assist in the economic and social development of societies in need, Responsible Tourism effectively integrates scales and types of knowledge to present an informative, stimulating perspective. It will be on my

Covane Community Lodge is located in the buffer zone of the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique, and within the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area. Over the years the accommodation has been supported with funds from USAID and the World Bank, and with technical support from non-governmental organisations. The community owners ran the lodge for several years, but commercial success, and better benefits for the community, have been achieved by outsourcing the management to the private company Scholtz Consutoria e servicos Lda.

Mombo Camp is located on Chief's Island in the Moremi Game Reserve within the Okavango Delta of Botswana. This case study explains how the camp has dramatically reduced its carbon emissions by converting its power from diesel generators to 100% solar energy, and made substantial contributions to black and white rhino re-introductions in the country. Through its lease fees, employment, and procurement, the lodge has also made substantial contributions to the local and national economy during the course of its concession period.

Ndzou Camp is a 22-bed ecotourism development located in the Moribane Forest Reserve, in the buffer zone of the Chimanimani National Reserve in Mozambique. Ndzou is a joint venture between Kubatana Moribane, a local community association, and the Mozambican private company Eco-Micaia Lda (Eco-Micaia). After eight years of operating accommodation, elephant tracking, forest walks and visits to local communities and sacred places, Ndzou was still operating at the fringes of commercial viability. Despite this, the camp has provided a platform for a wider engagement process in the forest zone, including expansion of a honey production programme, promotion of sustainable agriculture and the creation of community managed conservation areas.

This case describes how !Xaus Lodge, a 24-bed community owned lodge in the remote Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, provides employment and other economic opportunities to ‡Khomani San and Mier communities in South Africa. By partnering with the private operator Transfrontier Parks Destinations, the lodge has been able to access markets and generate positive returns for the state and rural community members.

This case study describes how Phinda Private Game Reserve has evolved over three decades from privately owned land and infrastructure at the outset, to a mixture of community owned land and a joint-venture partnership. The operations have generated substantial benefits for conservation and social benefits for local people over many years.

Witsieshoek Mountain Lodge (WML) is an 88-bed lodge in the South African section of the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Park World Heritage Site. WML is a community owned lodge, privately operated by Transfrontier Parks Destinations (TFPD). By providing business acumen, market linkages, and securing investment finance TFPD has transformed a dilapidated community owned lodge into a thriving enterprise. It generates meaningful financial returns for the community owners, and also secure full-time employment for local people. Furthermore, the lodge has been independently certified as a sustainable tourism business by Fair Trade Tourism.

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction to the Handbook on Managing Nature-Based Tourism Destinations amid Climate Change -- Part I Monitoring and measuring NBT-related emissions -- 2. Evaluation of climatic comfort indices in the nature-based tourism destinations of Turkey -- 3. Advancing climate change response: the pivotal role of the International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories -- 4. Measuring and managing the Invisible Burden of Tourism on Block Island, Rhode Island -- 5. Monitoring of shoreline changes and their implications for tourism: the case of the Litoral Norte Natural Park (Esposende, Portugal)1 -- Part II Accelerating decarbonisation in NBT -- 6. Decarbonisation in nature-based tourism: the shifting paradigm in the ASEAN region -- 7. The role of public policy in accelerating the decarbonisation of the tourism industry -- 8. Responses to climate change in Alpine ski destinations -- 9. Towards decarbonisation plans for ski tourism: examples from the Swiss and French Alps -- 10. Accelerating decarbonisation in nature-based tourism -- Part III Inspiring ecosystem regeneration in NB destinations -- 11. Integrating climate change adaptation into coastal tourism planning and management: the case of the Makarska Riviera, Croatia1 -- 12. Preparedness and response to climate change in a nature-based tourism destination: an exploratory case study of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand -- 13. The dependency on private car use for nature-based tourism - an inescapable practice, or potential for change? -- 14. Revitalizing ecosystems in nature-based tourist sites: a case study of Pichavaram Mangroves, Tamil Nadu, India -- 15. Business Purpose Canvas: stimulating regenerative tourism practice through redefining business purpose -- 16. Scaling nature-based solutions through regenerative tourism.

This project aimed to identify a system by which the aspirations laid out in a specific government policy document could be presented in a way that the private sector and rural communities can use it to manage business at the operational local level. The model aimed to demonstrate how civil society could use the new responsible tourism policy criteria that exist to structure management and leverage government support and to guide and benchmark the achievement against economic (pro-poor) social and environmental criteria. The project was designed to: 1. translate stakeholder agreed government policy into practical management guidelines for the whole tourism industry; 2. develop, test and adapt the guidelines in the most directly relevant sector for rural livelihoods impact, that of nature based tourism - applicable across significant areas of South Africa and far beyond the boundaries of national parks; 3. pilot the guidelines as a system of monitoring against criteria and measurable indicators that have recently been developed by South African National Parks within the lodge concession leasing process.