Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2014-2015
Year
2016
Journal
Tourism in Marine Environments
Volume
11
Issue
264
Pages
251-262
Keywords
code of conduct, ecotourism, 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 2014.
