ABSTRACT
Upon completion of this chapter, the reader should be able to:
employ the concepts of frontstage and backstage as a framework for assigning tourism of different intensities to suitable areas within a destination
assess the circumstances under which assumptions of flexible and fixed carrying capacity, respectively, should be adopted by destination planners
describe the utility of development standards as a means of ensuring the quality of tourism-related landscape modifications and
evaluate the role of zoning, districting, redevelopment, purchase of development rights (PDR) agreements and trade-offs as spatial strategies that can be implemented by destination managers and planners to achieve sustainable tourism.
