Tourism And Development In Tropical Islands

Author : Klaus Meyer-Arendt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317645596
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Tropical Coastal and Island Tourism Development written by Klaus Meyer-Arendt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of articles that include both case studies and theoretical insights applicable to the tourism development challenges of tropical coastal and island destinations throughout the world. Topics include the shortcoming of (eco)tourism in Madagascar, collaboration theory and successful multi-stakeholder partnerships on Indonesian resort islands, resilience theory and development pressures on a Malaysian island, results and implications of a detailed survey of cruise passengers in Colombia, perceptions of underdevelopment as limiting factors in Costa Rica, and conflicts of perception and reality through the literary myths of Pitcairn Island. This book was published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies.

Author : Stefan Gössling
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Development in Tropical Islands written by Stefan Gössling and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addresses the interplay between tourism development and local environments on tropical islands. The book is written from the perspective of a political ecologist.

Author : Rachel Dodds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136530541
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations written by Rachel Dodds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world's islands are dependent on tourism as their main source of income. It is therefore imperative that these destinations are managed for long-term viability. The natural appeal of a destination is typically one of its main tourism related assets, yet the natural environment is also the feature most directly threatened by potential overexploitation. Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations builds on existing literature in the subject by providing innovative discussions and practical management structures through the use of the authors' various island project work. An original feature is the focus on islands which are part of larger nations, rather than just on island sovereign states. Through an illustrated case study approach, the book focuses on the successes and challenges islands face in achieving sustainable tourism. The authors put forward innovative mechanisms such as multi-stakeholder partnerships and incentive-driven non-regulatory approaches as ways that the sustainability agenda can move forward in destinations that face specific challenges due to their geography and historic development. The case studies - from Canada, St Kitts, Honduras, China, Indonesia, Spain, Tanzania and Thailand - provide the foundation which suggests that alternative approaches to tourism development are possible if they retain sustainability as a priority.

Author : Jack Carlsen
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 184593699X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Tourism written by Jack Carlsen and published by CABI. This book was released on 2011 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands are the most vulnerable and fragile of tourism destinations and will experience even more pressure as the combined impacts of economic, social and environmental change accelerate in the future. In order to understand the process of island tourism development, response to change and challenges and their journey to sustainability, this book provides insights and instruction on topics including social, cultural, environmental and economic aspects of island tourism. It contains essential information for policymakers, planners, researchers, managers and operators within the tourism industry.

Author : David Timothy Duval
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415303613
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism in the Caribbean written by David Timothy Duval and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a high calibre team of international researchers to provide an up-to-date assessment of the scope of tourism and the nature of tourism development in the Caribbean; past, present and future.

Author : Yorghos Apostolopoulos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313013640
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Tourism and Sustainable Development written by Yorghos Apostolopoulos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume dicusses the impact of tourism on sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars, development practitioners, international experts, and professionals, the contributors discuss the issues from a holistic and transnational perspective. This work provides a much-needed, thorough understanding of the interplay among economic, cultural, environmental, and public health parameters. The contributors provide a workable definition of sustainable development that can be understood, conveyed, and implemented by policy makers, development practitioners, and tourism professionals. Among the special issues addressed here are the role of women in tourism, the contradictions inherent in cultural tourism, the hegemony of tour operators, disease mapping and risk assessment, and island community involvement in tourism-related land-use planning.

Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843690446
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Island States and Sustainable Development written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1995 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robertico Croes
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000565041
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Island and Small Destination Tourism written by Robertico Croes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and thoughtful book considers the tourism specialization, economic growth, and tourism competitiveness of a very specific type of tourism: small islands practicing warm water island tourism. This new book thoroughly examines the phenomenon of why some small island destinations have been more successful than others. The main premise applied is that success and survival of small island tourism hinges on resolving the mystery regarding the relationship between competitiveness and quality of life. In addressing this question, the book reviews four relevant and interconnected concepts: tourism, competitiveness, quality of life, and scale (or size). In doing so, the book enhances understanding of the potential of tourism for the improvement of the quality of life of the residents of small islands. In the last chapter of the book, the author assesses the impact of COVID-19 on tourism and specifically its ramifications for small island destinations. Whether small island populations can rise from beneath the COVID -19 burden that threatens their economic future is yet to be seen. Small Island and Small Destination Tourism: Overcoming the Smallness Barrier for Economic Growth and Tourism Competitiveness is written from a sustainable perspective that combines tourism dynamics, development, competitiveness, quality of life, and business. As such, it is aimed at a broad but higher-level audience including graduate students, academicians and researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and international organizations.

Author : Jarkko Saarinen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000487474
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals written by Jarkko Saarinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Krista A. Thompson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388561
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Eye for the Tropics written by Krista A. Thompson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.