Tourism and Resilience

By: Bruno Abegg and Arjen Alberts and Maria Amoamo and Godfrey Baldacchino and Susanne Becken and Marta Berbés-Blázquez and Jeremy Buultjens and Athula Chammika Gnanapala and Harold Goodwin and Bijan Khazai and Alan A Lew and Glenn McCartney and Pin T. Ng and Jonathan Pugh and Iraj Ratnayake and Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros and Daniel Scott and Valerie A. Sheppard and Jennifer Strickland-Munro and Robert Steiger and Lisa Trawöger and Tsung-Chiung Wu

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Synopsis: This is the first book to address the concept of resilience and its specific application and relevance to tourism, in particular tourism destinations. Resilience relates to the ability of organisms, communities, ecosystems and populations to withstand the impacts of external forces while retaining their integrity and ability to continue functioning. It is particularly applicable to tourism destinations and attractions which are exposed to the potentially harmful and sometimes severe effects of tourism development and visitation, but which also can experience increased resilience from the economic benefits of tourism. Phenomena such as destination communities, wildlife populations and ecosystems are discussed, as well as the ability of places and communities to use tourism and its infrastructure to recover from disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, unrest and disease. This book: · Compares the relevance of resilience to sustainability · Contains contributions from many of the leading international authors · Brings together varying viewpoints of both conceptual and applied issues · Includes example case studies from Whistler, western Canada; Sri Lanka; Purnululu National Park, Australia; and the remote Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Tourism and Resilience is relevant for researchers, students and practitioners in tourism and related fields such as development studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, economics and business/management.