Warwick Frost is Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Heritage at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include environmental history, ecotourism, cultural heritage and the interplay between tourism and the media.Michael Hall is a Professor in the Department of Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Docent in the Department of Geography, Oulu University Finland. Co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism he has published widely in the tourism and environmental history fields, including a long-standing interest in wilderness, national parks and World Heritage.

• Introduction 1. Introduction: The Making of the National Park Concept 2. Reinterpreting the Creation Myth: Yellowstone National Park 3. American Invention to International Concept: The Spread and Evolution of National Parks 4. National Parks and the ‘Worthless Lands Hypothesis’ Revisited 5. National Parks and National Identity and Tourism New World Perspectives 6. Framing the View: How American National Parks Came to Be 7. John Muir and William Gladstone Steel: Activists and the Establishment of Yosemite and Crater Lake National Parks 8. Tourism and the Canadian National Park System: Protection, Use and Balance 9. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: Natural Wonder and World Heritage Area 10. ‘Welcome to Aboriginal Land’: The Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park Old World Perspectives 11. The National Park Concept in Spain: Patriotism, Education, Romanticism and Tourism 12. The English Lake District – National Park or playground? 13. The Peak District National Park UK: Contemporary Complexities and Challenges 14. A Ticket to National Parks? Tourism, Railways, and the Establishment of National Parks in Sweden 15. ‘Protect, preserve, present’ – The Role of Tourism in Swedish National Parks Developing World: Beyond The Eurocentric 16. National Parks in Indonesia: An Alien Construct 17. National Parks in Transition: Wuyishan Scenic Park in China 18. ‘Full of rubberneck waggons and tourists’: The Development of Tourism in South Africa’s National Parks and Protected Areas Beyond Nature 19. National Parks as Cultural Landscapes: Indigenous Peoples, Conservation and Tourism 20. National Mall and Memorial Parks: Past, Present and Future Conclusion 21. The Future of the National Park Concept

"I have to confess that I like an edited book that has a conclusion. Too often, a collection of chapters such as this ends with no attempt to draw together an overaching summary of the topic. That is where this book is different." - Georgette Leah Burns, Griffith University, Australia, 2011"...a rich critique of the dynamism of national parks in an evolving social, economic, and cultural world. Recommended." - Choice, March 2010