Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introducing River Tourism: Physical, Ecological and Human Aspects -- 2 River Tourism in the South Asian Subcontinent -- 3 River-based Tourism in the USA: Tourism and Recreation on the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers -- 4 The Mekong: Developing a New Tourism Region -- 5 River Tourism: Sailing the Nile -- 6 European Waterways as a Source of Leisure and Recreation -- 7 The Yangzi River Tourism Zone -- 8 Fishing the 'Big Rivers' in Australia's Northern Territory: Market Diversification for the Daly River -- 9 The Amazon: a River Tourism Frontier -- 10 River Heritage: the Murray-Darling River -- 11 White-water Tourism -- 12 Basin-based Governance for Integrated Water Resources Management: Prospects and Challenges -- 13 Sustainable Water Resources and Water Security -- 14 'The River City'? Conflicts in the Development of a Tourism Destination Brand for Brisbane -- 15 Conclusions and Challenges -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.