Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides comprehensive insight into the challenges faced by island tourism destinations and theoretical and practical paths for built in sustainability and resiliency. It explores Island Tourism Resilience within the context of Lifecycles, System Decline and Resilience'.
Tourism is a key activity for many islands, and some depend on the tourism sector as a main economic activity. An exploration of islands across the globe that addresses substantial matters of ongoing sustainability and resiliency is ever important. An array of challenges including natural disasters, climate change, economic and political crises among others has been addressed in the book, with additional areas such as overtourism and COVID-19 included at the conclusion. This volume is essential reading for academics, tourism planners and policy makers seeking to develop sustainable and resilient island destinations.
With a new Foreword, Introduction, Conclusion and Afterword, the chapters in t
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction: Island tourism resilience 1. Globalisation and cultural change in Pacific Island countries: the role of tourism 2. Critiques of island sustainability in tourism 3. Contributions to sustainable tourism in small islands: an analysis of the Cittàslow movement 4. Modelling tourism resilience in small island states: a tale of two countries 5. Social-ecological resilience and community-based tourism in the commonwealth of Dominica 6. Economic and social resilience accounts for the recovery of Ibiza’s tourism sector 7. Brexit – threat or opportunity? Resilience and tourism in Britain’s Island Territories 8. Immigrant entrepreneur knowledge in the tourism industry of island destinations 9. Cultivating the Chinese market through destination loyalty: enhancing resilience in the Maldives 10. Tourists really do behave responsibly toward the environment in Camiguin Province, Philippines 11. Community meaning making for tourism sustainability on Madura Island, Indonesia 12. The integrated touristic villages: an Indonesian model of sustainable tourism? 13. Resilience and Non-Linear Change in Island Tourism Conclusion Afterword
