The introduction (Editors)

1. Nature-based tourism: Concepts and emerging challenges
   • Conceptualising NBT
   • Evaluating the sustainability of NBT
   • Fostering and measuring the resilience of NBT
   • Mitigating impacts and adapting to climate change
   • Stakeholder management and power relations
   • Sustainable tourism growth vs sustainable degrowth
   • Financing nature-based destinations
   • Reconciling conservation and recreation
   • The effectiveness of management and planning within the NBT
   • Facing crisis, risks and disasters
2. Management and planning of nature-based tourism development
   • System thinking in NBT management and planning
   • Integrated planning for sustainable and resilient nature-based destinations
   • Visitor management
   • Monitoring and forecasting visitor use
   • Mitigating and preventing overtourism
   • Planning for recreation: development of tourism facilities
   • Decision support systems for nature-based destinations
   • Applying SMART solutions within nature-based destinations
   • Fostering collaboration between stakeholders and entrepreneurship
   • Empowerment of local communities 
   • Integrating outdoor recreation and land planning
   • Nature-based solutions
3. Visitor experience design and management
   • Conceptualising (sustainable) visitor experiences in NBT
   • Changing nature of tourism demand
   • Visitor behaviour and satisfaction
   • Loyalty and (hyper) personalisation of visitor experiences
   • Multiple motivations
   • Management of in situ sustainable visitor experiences
   • Monitoring visitor experiences
   • Stakeholders involvement in experience design
   • Responsible and transformative experiences
   • Value co-creation and value co-destruction
   • Overcrowding
   • Visitors behaviour
   • The experience-scape
4. The impacts of nature-based tourism
   • Economic impacts
   • Social and community-related impacts
   • Cultural impacts
   • Optimisation of nature-based tourism development
   • Outdoor recreation, well-being and health
   • Pro-environmental behaviour
   • Novel approaches toward the impact assessment on destination scale
5. The future of nature-based tourism
   • Governance and management of nature-based destinations for 21^st century
   • Empowerment, capacity building and leadership
   • Nature-based destinations in the post-COVID-19 era
   • Global trends in tourism and nature-based destinations
   • Natural capital and ecosystem services
   • NBT and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Summary and Outlook (editors)