ABSTRACT
This timely handbook critically examines the development and role of tourism in small Pacific Island states located across Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The volume presents an expansive evaluation of current issues, challenges and potentialities for the 13 self-governing states.
Interdisciplinary in coverage and borne of a varied and international authorship, this handbook incorporates 27 specifically commissioned and original contributions. Structured into four thematic sections and embellished with insightful tables and illustrations throughout, the overarching ethos of this volume is to contribute to framing the role of tourism, tourism development and the tourism industry within the context of self-governing Pacific Island states faced with the challenge of pursuing an independent path of development. In doing so, the work highlights and deciphers various tourism development perplexities in the Pacific, examining closely the intersecting sociocultural, geopolitical, environmental, organizational, operational and strategic challenges. This volume, thus, discusses a range of issues: facilitators and inhibitors of tourism growth and development; climate change, ecological concerns, and eco-tourism; non-tourism and undertourism; crisis management and the COVID-19 virus; transportation and tourism infrastructural concerns; tourism policy and planning (including tourism governance); sectoral links between tourism; food and agriculture; gender and micro-entrepreneurship; community management and participation; cultural and natural heritage sites; and the handicraft industry. The work pays critical attention to the various trajectories of sustainable tourism and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the many challenges and concerns raised, the book implicates the importance of good governance, progressive post-COVID-19 recovery strategies and directives, and creative and imaginative options in the successful development, re-development and advancement of tourism.
As a definitive reference resource for this subject area, this handbook will be of great interest to students, researchers and academics within tourism, development studies, geography, Pacific studies, sustainability and environmental studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|140 pages
Tourism and small island states in the Pacific
chapter 3|12 pages
Tourism and the new regional governance of ‘Pacific large ocean states'
chapter 6|17 pages
The COVID-19 pandemic and the South Pacific
chapter 7|16 pages
Mass Tourism in Small Pacific Island States
chapter 8|15 pages
Deciphering tourism's auspicious and inauspicious relationships with food and agriculture in Pacific Island states
part II|102 pages
Tourism and island states in Melanesia
chapter 10|11 pages
Tourism development in the Solomon Islands
chapter 14|14 pages
Community management of cultural tourism at a World Heritage Site
chapter 16|11 pages
Opportunities and challenges of ecotourism development in Fiji
part III|68 pages
Tourism and island states in Micronesia
chapter 17|12 pages
Tourism development in the Marshall Islands
chapter 20|13 pages
Deciphering Nauru as a non-tourism destination
chapter 21|16 pages
Understanding tourism development in the Federated States of Micronesia
part IV|68 pages
Tourism and island states in Polynesia
chapter 22|15 pages
Sustainable tourism planning in Samoa
chapter 24|13 pages
Yoga tourism and sustainable development in Niue post-COVID
chapter 25|10 pages
Tourism development in the Cook Islands
part |14 pages
Conclusion