regarding gender inequality in many communities, empowerment of women has become an important subject and received more attention in recent years. results of many researches show that tourism especially ecotourism affects women empowerment in its different aspects by making them interested in participating tourism activities. based on findings of previous researches, the current study aims to a...

Ecotourism is associated with nature and poverty alleviation. believed to be significant for the generation of income, sustainability environment, political enablement local societies as well educational purposes. generates economic benefits at national level thus create incentives preserve resources. With its backward forward linkages other sectors economy, ecotourism an effective tool allevia...

Community-based social marketing is a relatively new approach in marketing which makes use of social networks within communities to disseminate marketing messages in a information campaign. Agent-based models can be used as a tool for exploring the sensitivity of such campaigns to the structure of social networks within target communities. We develop an agentbased model for a social marketing c...

In this chapter, the value of Jerma Special Nature Reserve in Republic Serbia, a natural asset national and international importance, was valorised using multi-criteria decision-making. This research conducted to determine most favourable strategy for sustain- able spatial development Reserve, with special focus on possibilities developing ecotourism, type tourism that is particularly suitable ...

Objectives: Parents of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) children often have a negative attitude towards themselves. They are often negatively affected by these challenges and the failure of their children. Thus, their interaction with their children is negatively influenced. The present study aimed to investigate the potential effect of family-centered nature therapy on the interaction of parents...

This paper aims to build up a preference function to evaluate the public benefits of the type of agricultural farming, biodiversity, water provisions, land use type, ecotourism modes, and a monetary attribute (willingness to pay and willingness to work) associated with an ecosystem service and land use program in a forest park. This study used choice experiments to build a random utility model,...