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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|86 pages
Development
chapter 1|14 pages
Identities in flux
chapter 2|21 pages
The impact of tourism development on small island communities in The Bahamas
chapter 3|17 pages
Living on islands
part II|37 pages
Governance
part III|50 pages
Sustainable development
chapter 10|17 pages
Assessing sustainability in small island developing states
chapter 11|10 pages
Toward a blue economy
part IV|27 pages
Development, governance, sustainability
chapter 15|15 pages
Hurricane Dorian
part V|11 pages
Conclusion