Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2012-2013
Year
2014
Journal
Tourism in Marine Environments
Volume
10
Issue
8
Pages
121-140
Keywords
compliance, ecotourism, illegal feeding, management, Provisioning, regulations, swim with dolphins, swim with whales, whale watching
Abstract
Whale-watching research encompasses a wide variety of disciplines and fields of study, including monitoring the biological impacts of whale-watching activities on cetaceans and assessments of the effectiveness of whale-watching management and regulations, to the sociological and economic aspects of whale watching on communities hosting such activities. This article is the latest in a series of annual digests, which describes the variety and findings of whale-watching studies published over the past year, since June 2012.
