Abstract
The rationale of this article is the need to elicit the trending themes relevant to the latest research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability. Hence, the purpose of this study: stocktaking of cutting-edge research articles in this field and eliciting the critical trends and issues shaping the knowledge, future research, and technical development perspectives on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability. The focus is on the trends, which are pivotal for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals until 2030. A hierarchical cluster analysis was undertaken with a KH Coder 3.0 tool to elicit topical co-occurrence networks for thematic words in academic papers from 2015 to 2020 on the topic, quarried from Google Scholar. The article’s main findings are the seven identified major trending research themes on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability: (1) Community-based tourism development; (2) National Park management for tourism; (3) Sustainable tourist motivation; (4) Biodiversity conservation and ecotourism; (5) Landscape and land use changes; (6) Visitor satisfaction monitoring; and (7) Ecotourism modelling. The article’s main conclusion is that the criteria and conditions for responsible low-key tourism in protected areas, both for biodiversity and local communities, are pivotal factors to consider for future research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability.
Highlights
Biodiversity conservation has long traditions and has experienced many vicissitudes since the sacred pagan groves, medieval royal hunting reserves, and the first national parks of the 1800s
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The article’s main conclusion is that criteria and conditions for responsible low-key tourism in protected area (PA), both for biodiversity conservation and for the wellbeing of local communities, are pivotal factors to consider for future research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability
Summary
Biodiversity conservation has long traditions and has experienced many vicissitudes since the sacred pagan groves, medieval royal hunting reserves, and the first national parks of the 1800s. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1993). Considers biodiversity conservation as a comprehensive system of concerted off-site and on-site measures securing biological diversity in its broadest sense. CBD defines biological diversity as ‘the variability among living organisms from [ . CBD considers off-site biodiversity conservation measures as those preserving components of biological diversity outside their natural habitats, including the system of legal measures and the storage of genetic material, i.e., any material of plant, animal, microbial, or other origin comprising functional heredity units. CBD considers on-site biodiversity conservation measures to preserve natural habitats and ecosystems, maintaining and restoring viable species’ populations in their natural environment and, in the case of cultivated or domesticated species, in the environment of the evolution of their characteristic features.
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