ABSTRACT

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.

part I|86 pages

Development

chapter 1|14 pages

Identities in flux

Psychological acculturation and developing tourism in The Bahamas

chapter 3|17 pages

Living on islands

Tourism and quality of life on the islands of Abaco, Bimini and Exuma, The Bahamas a case study

part II|37 pages

Governance

chapter 8|11 pages

Atlantis

A case study in the experience economy

chapter 9|13 pages

The economics of smiling

A history of the Bahamian courtesy campaign 1955–1970

part III|50 pages

Sustainable development

chapter 10|17 pages

Assessing sustainability in small island developing states

A comparative analysis of sustainability assessment tools and their applicability to small island developing states

chapter 11|10 pages

Toward a blue economy

Ragged Island: a case for sustainable development for the islands of The Bahamas

chapter 13|12 pages

Marijuana Agro-Tourism Habitat

part IV|27 pages

Development, governance, sustainability

chapter 14|10 pages

Sustaining tourism after a hurricane

chapter 15|15 pages

Hurricane Dorian

A case for building comprehensive climate change resilience frameworks for small island developing states in the Caribbean

part V|11 pages

Conclusion