Reframing Sustainable Tourism
1st Edition
Published on 19. August 2015
XIX, 250 pages
978-94-017-7209-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the need for a new way of describing sustainable tourism and also looks at the frameworks needed to rethink how to apply this to communities, private operators and protected area managers.It makes it clear that tourism is just one of many human activities that affects host communities. The work includes informative and provocative case studies with realistic applications. References included in the book will help graduate students formulate new hypotheses and suggest literature for them. Tools and techniques useful to tourism practitioners suggest innovative approaches to marketing, management and community development.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer Netherland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XIX, 250 p. 21 illus., 14 illus. in color.
File size
3,50 MB
ISBN-13
978-94-017-7209-9 (9789401772099)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-7209-9
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Stephen F. McCool | Keith Bosak
Reframing Sustainable Tourism
Book
09/2015
Springer
€128.39
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Content
Part 1: Foundations. Chapter 1: Sustainable Tourism in an Emerging World of Complexity and Turbulence.- Chapter 2: The Changing Meanings of Sustainable Tourism.- Chapter 3: Tourism, Development, and Sustainability.- Part 2: Frameworks.- Chapter 4: Frameworks for Tourism as a Development Strategy.- Chapter 5: Strategic Community Participation in Sustainable Tourism.- Chapter 6: Framework for Understanding Sustainability in the Context of Tourism Operators.- Chapter 7: Frameworks for Managing Tourism in Protected Areas.- Part 3: Case Studies.- Chapter 8: When dem come: Political Ecology of Sustainable Tourism in Cockpit County, Jamaica.- Chapter 9: Understanding the Himalayan Townscape of Shimla through Resident and Tourist Perception.- Chapter 10: Community-based Tourism and Development in the Periphery/ Semi-periphery Interface: A Case Study from Viet Nam.- Chapter 11: The Concept of Environmental Supply in National Parks.- Chapter 12: Sustainable Tourism in Brazil: Faxinal and Superagui Case Studies.- Chapter 13: Tourism Development as Building Social Capital.- Part 4: Conclusion.- Chapter 14: The Way Forward.
