Volume 5, Number 1&2, 2006

Rosaleen Duffy

The Politics of Ecotourism and the Developing World.......1

Richard Sharpley

Ecotourism: A Consumption Perspective.......7

Erlet Cater

Ecotourism as a Western Construct.......23

Nicola J. Palmer

Economic Transition and the Struggle for Local Control in Ecotourism Development: The Case of Kyrgyzstan.......40

Marina Novelli, Jonathan I. Barnes and Michael Humavindu

The Other Side of the Ecotourism Coin: Consumptive Tourism in Southern Africa.......62

Christopher R.J. Southgate

Ecotourism in Kenya: The Vulnerability of Communities.......80

Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

Between Local and Global, Discourses and Practices: Rethinking Ecotourism Development in Celestún (Yucatán, México).......97

Marloes Van Amerom

African Foreign Relations as a Factor in Ecotourism Development: The Case of South Africa.......112

Rosaleen Duffy

Global Environmental Governance and the Politics of Ecotourism in Madagascar.......128