Tourism development, governance and sustainability in the Bahamas:

"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 f...

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Other Authors: Rolle, Sophia (Editor), Minnis, Jessica (Editor), Bethell-Bennett, Ian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2020
Series:Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility
Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"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"--
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 235 pages) illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781000079869
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