According to the description on the back cover of the book, 'diving tourism has seen such spectacular growth in its popularity over the past decade that the UN World Tourism Organization suggests that it will soon become as important in economic terms as ski tourism'. According to a UNWTO estimate, there are now five to seven million active certified divers in the world. With this phenomenal growth, a book examining this form of niche tourism was waiting to be written. Fortunately, this initiative was taken up by Brian Garrod, University of Wales, UK, and Stefan Gossling, Lund University, Sweden.rnNew Frontiers in Marine Tourism represents the first attempt to investigate dive tourism and examine its size, issues and future directions, and as such it is a significant contribution to the field of marine tourism research. The book comprises eleven chapters in four sections. The first is an introductory chapter written by the editors, the second describes the dive tourism experience, the third outlines its impacts, while the fourth relates to its management.
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