Tourism Development Governance And Sustainability In The Bahamas

Author : Sophia Rolle,Jessica Minnis,Ian Bethell-Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000079883

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Tourism Development, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas by Sophia Rolle,Jessica Minnis,Ian Bethell-Bennett Pdf

This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries. The book achieves this by looking at the impacts of mass tourism development from social, economic and environmental perspectives; panarchy and resilience; assessing sustainability; moving towards a blue economy; impacts of climate change and innovative alternative tourism offerings to ensure sustainable tourism – a welcomed but challenging essential contemporary focus of the tourism industry. It further looks at how development, governance and sustainability come together in the aftermath of a recent natural disaster, hurricane Dorian, which proved to be a strong catalyst for action, innovation and change in The Bahamas. Given the complexity of these key concepts and The Bahamas as an established popular tourism destination archipelago which relies so heavily on the industry, this book offers significant insight for other tourism regions and will therefore be essential reading for upper-level students and academics in the field of Tourism research.

Author : Michelle T. McLeod
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040091746

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Island Tourism Policy and Sustainable Development by Michelle T. McLeod Pdf

This insightful and timely book is the first of its kind to explore specific policies, issues, challenges, and practices that will enhance the sustainable development of tourism in island destinations, including island nations, twin-island nations, and sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs). Islands are faced with a myriad of challenges: economic failure, natural disasters, political upheavals, and socio-cultural dilemmas. Tourism is the most likely means for economic development in many islands and yet, specific tailor-made policies for an island context have received limited exploration and discussion. The policies explored in this volume include those relating to management, marketing, governance, and sustainable development of the tourism sector in islands. This book is ‘go-to’ guide on the topic and the case studies and best practices throughout the book provide practical knowledge and insight. The volume posits a concise and logically structured review of island tourism in a post-pandemic context, exploring specific tourism policies that will contribute to the enhancement of sustainable tourism development in islands, particularly those in developing countries. This significant book offers insight into best practices and will be of interest to academics, researchers, policymakers, and students of tourism policy, planning, and sustainable development.

Author : Bill Bramwell,Bernard Lane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135723088

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Tourism Governance by Bill Bramwell,Bernard Lane Pdf

The role of governance has only recently begun to be researched and discussed in order to better understand tourism policy making and planning, and tourism development. Governance encompasses the many ways in which societies and industries are governed, given permission or assistance, or steered by government and numerous other actors, including the private sector, NGOs and communities. This book explains and evaluates critical perspectives on the governance of tourism, examining these in the context of tourism and sustainable development. Governance processes fundamentally affect whether – and how – progress is made toward securing the economic, socio-cultural and environmental goals of sustainable development. The critical perspectives on tourism governance, examined here, challenge and re-conceptualise established ideas in tourism policy and planning, as well as engage with theoretical frameworks from other social science fields. The contributors assess theoretical frameworks that help explain the governance of tourism and sustainability. They also explore tourism governance at national, regional and local scales, and the relations between them. They assess issues of power and politics in policy making and planning, and they consider changing governance relationships over time and the associated potential for social learning. The collection brings insights from leading researchers, and examines important new theoretical frameworks for tourism research. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Author : Michelle McLeod,Rachel Dodds,Richard Butler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000585520

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Island Tourism Sustainability and Resiliency by Michelle McLeod,Rachel Dodds,Richard Butler Pdf

This 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 this book were originally published in the journal, Tourism Geographies.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen,Alison M. Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351667357

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Resilient Destinations and Tourism by Jarkko Saarinen,Alison M. Gill Pdf

Sustainability is one of the most important issues currently facing the tourism sector. Recently, the role of resilience thinking has been highlighted in sustainable development discussions as an alternative perspective. This book approaches these concepts as interwoven processes and looks at change through a socioecological lens. Instead of seeing resilience and sustainability as alternative approaches, Resilient Destinations and Tourism argues that resilience should be understood as a fundamental part of sustainable tourism thinking for destination systems, and calls for better governance in implementation and management. Improving governance is the key issue in sustainable tourism development. The chapters in this edited collection focus on resilient destinations from a governance perspective, in which tourism resilience is contextualized as an integral part of pathway creation in the process of moving towards sustainable tourism. The contributions to the book represent a range of theoretical and empirical approaches with a wide international scope. Resilient Destinations and Tourism calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and looks at how sustainability and resilience could be integrated. This book will appeal to a wide range of research disciplines and students whose modules focus on the relationship between tourism and sustainability planning, governance, the environment, and hazards and disasters.

Author : Yonique Campbell,John Connell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811652851

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COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific by Yonique Campbell,John Connell Pdf

This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states. It traces the complexity of effects and responses, at different scales, through the first critical year. Written by a range of scholars and practitioners working in the region the book focuses on six key themes: public health; the economies (notably the collapse of tourism, the revival of local agriculture and fishing, and the rebirth of self-reliance, and even barter); the rescue by remittances; social tensions and responses; public policy; and future ‘bubbles’ and regional connections. Even with marine borders that excluded the virus all island states were affected by COVID-19 because of a considerable dependence on tourism – prompting urgent challenges for governance, economic management and development, as small states sought to balance lives against livelihoods in search of revitalisation or even a ‘new normal’.

Author : Ian Bethell-Bennett,Sophia A. Rolle,Jessica Minnis,Fevzi Okumus
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781803821078

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Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism by Ian Bethell-Bennett,Sophia A. Rolle,Jessica Minnis,Fevzi Okumus Pdf

Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism examines the resilience of Caribbean SIDS and their tourism industries from the perspectives of culture, economy, environment, politics, psychology, social justice, and socio-historical context.

Author : T. M. Jennifer Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ecotourism
ISBN : 1898828229

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Sustainable Tourism and Development by T. M. Jennifer Edwards Pdf

Author : Richard Sharpley,Kumi Kato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000205619

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Tourism Development in Japan by Richard Sharpley,Kumi Kato Pdf

This significant and timely volume focuses on the unique trajectory of tourism development in Japan, which has been characterized by an historical emphasis on promoting both domestic and international tourism to Japanese tourists, followed by the more recent policy of competing aggressively in the international incoming tourist market. Initial chapters present an overview of past and present tourism, including policy and research perspectives. Thematic perspectives on tourism and specific contexts and places in which tourism occurs are then examined. Strains of Japanese tourism such as sport, surf, forest, mountain, urban, tea, pilgrimage and even whaling heritage tourism are among those analyzed. The book also explores tourism’s role in confronting difficult pasts and presents, and the challenges facing the development of tourism in contemporary Japan. A short postscript outlines some of the challenges and possible future directions tourism in Japan may take in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Written by a team of well-known editors and contributors, including academics from Japan, this volume will be of great interest to upper-students and researchers and academics in development studies, cultural studies, geography and tourism.

Author : Maximiliano E. Korstanje,Hugues Seraphin,Shem Wambugu Maingi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781803823119

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Tourism Through Troubled Times by Maximiliano E. Korstanje,Hugues Seraphin,Shem Wambugu Maingi Pdf

Tourism Through Troubled Times is an illuminating read for all scholars of Tourism Studies, Hospitality Management, and the Sociology of Tourism, as well as practitioners and managers within the hospitality sector, and gives clear insights into the industry’s next steps forward.

Author : T.H.B. Sofield
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080439462

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Empowerment for Sustainable Tourism Development by T.H.B. Sofield Pdf

Aiming to explore theoretical advances in tourism studies, this book explores the relationship between tourism, sustainable development and empowerment. The theoretical framework is explored across three levels through five case studies drawn from the South Pacific.

Author : Rob Harris,Peter Williams,Tony Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136360428

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Sustainable Tourism by Rob Harris,Peter Williams,Tony Griffin Pdf

Sustainable Tourism is vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities associated with sustainable tourism development, and how government and industry have responded to the challenges the concept poses. The major areas addressed in this edited volume are: * perspectives and issues associated with the concept of sustainable tourism development * accreditation, education and interpretation, including specific examples such as Green Globe 21, the European Blue Flag Campaign and the WWF's PAN Parks Programme * sustainable tourism case studies of tourist destination regions, natural areas and tourism enterprises drawn from Africa, Australia, the South Pacific, North America, South-east Asia and the Caribbean An impressive international editorial team has combined to present in this text not only a variety of perspectives on sustainable tourism development, but also significant insights into barriers, challenges and current industry and government responses to it in various parts of the globe. 'Sustainable Tourism' will be a welcome addition to the libraries of tourism industry professionals, individuals involved in the management of natural areas; tourism policy makers; tourism academics; and students with an interest in the future sustainability of tourism and the industry that supports it.

Author : Amelia Moore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520970885

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Destination Anthropocene by Amelia Moore Pdf

Destination Anthropocene documents the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago. Known to travelers as a paradise of sun, sand, and sea, The Bahamas is rebranding itself in response to the rising threat of global environmental change, including climate change. In her imaginative new book, Amelia Moore explores an experimental form of tourism developed in the name of sustainability, one that is slowly changing the way both tourists and Bahamians come to know themselves and relate to island worlds.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000487473

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Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals by Jarkko Saarinen Pdf

This comprehensive volume comprises some of the best scholarship on sustainable tourism in recent years, demonstrating the rich body of past research that provides a fertile and critical ground for studies on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by tourism geographers and other social scientists in the future. Since the turn of the 1990s many international development and policy-making organisations have perceived the tourism industry, with its local and regional connections, as a high-potential tool for putting sustainable development into practice. The capacity of tourism to work for sustainable development was highlighted in relation to the United Nations’ SDGs, which were adopted in 2015. The SDGs define the agenda for global development to 2030 by addressing pertinent challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and peace and justice. Tourism geographers and allied disciplines have held strong and long-term interest in sustainability issues, and their chapters in this collection contribute significantly to this emerging and highly policy-relevant research field. This book was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.

Author : Elisa Innerhofer,Martin Fontanari,Harald Pechlaner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351331920

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Destination Resilience by Elisa Innerhofer,Martin Fontanari,Harald Pechlaner Pdf

This book calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and explores how sustainability and resilience could be integrated. It argues that these concepts should be seen as interwoven processes, rather than alternative approaches. Resilience should be understood as a fundamental part of sustainable tourism thinking for destination systems. This can be achieved by calling for better governance in implementation and management. With insights from leading experts, chapters focus on resilient destinations from this governance perspective, in which tourism resilience is contextualized as an integral part of pathway creation in the process of moving towards sustainable tourism. The chapters represent a range of theoretical and empirical approaches with a wide international scope to demonstrate how governance is the key issue in sustainable tourism development. This book will appeal to a wide range of research disciplines and students whose modules focus on the relationship between tourism with respect to sustainability planning, governance, environment, and hazards and disasters.