Tourism and Environment The Natural, Cultural and Socio-economic Challenges of Sustainable Tourism : Proceedings : Colloquy Organised by the Council of Europe, Directorate of Environment and Local Authorities, and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 9-11 September 1999

This report is the proceedings of a colloquy held in Riga, 9-11 September 1999. The colloquy examined the conditions and results of the integration of biological and landscape diversity conservation, as well as the socio-economic aspects of tourism development programmes in western, central and eastern Europe. The colloquy focused on three pilot studies conducted by the Council of Europe on sustainable and balanced tourism development in Latvia, Ukraine and Romania.