Ecotourism Horizons

Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan is Professor at National Chiayi University, Taiwan. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Recreation Research and a member of the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) Panel of Tourism Experts. He has been honored by the 2011-2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, the 2013, 2017, and 2018 Emerald Literati Awards, and the 2018 Publons Peer Review Award.Aliana Man Wai Leong is Associate Vice-President for International Affairs and Dean, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the School of Liberal Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), China. She is also the former Dean of the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management, MUST. She has been honored as one of the "Top Ten Most Influential Teachers in China's Tourism and Hospitality Education" and one of the "Top Ten Most Influential Teachers in National Tourism Institutions."Tao Ma is Professor at the School of Management and the Dean of the Business School at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. His research interests include regional industrial planning and the economic analysis of resources and energy. He is recognized as a "Youth Talent" under the National Cultural Masters and Four Batches Talent Project by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and serves as the Chief Expert for major projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China.

• Introduction 1. Homestays’ contribution to community-based ecotourism in the Himalayan region of India 2. Community-based ecotourism managing to fuel community empowerment? An evidence from Malaysian Borneo 3. Community-based ecotourism and the transformative learning of homestay hosts in Cambodia 4. Gender analysis in community-based ecotourism 5. Experiences and value perceptions of an ecotourism trip – an empirical study of outbound Chinese tourists 6. Rapid ecotourism development and challenges: the case of ecolodge in Iran 7. Ecotourism in Yancheng Wetland, China 8. Ecotourism in Gangotri Region of the Garhwal Himalayas 9. Globalization, ecotourism and the promise of development in sub-Saharan Africa 10. Local initiatives to localize ecotourism: an exploratory study in Kerwa, Van Vihar National Park catchments 11. Ecotourism issues and options for New Zealand 12. Ecotourism in the Australian and New Zealand sub-Antarctic Islands

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