ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to frame island tourism research while bringing to the forefront the myriad of challenges facing islands to develop successful tourism destinations. Island tourism destinations evolve and a field of study that will capture the changing dynamics and contribute to an overall sustainable development agenda is a worthwhile research focus. The non-availability of local labour and the socio-cultural matters relating to the movement of labour and migration to island tourism destinations have to be addressed. Island geographies are integrally connected to the economic activity that is tourism, and yet focused attention, on a perspective of resilience and recovery in island tourism destinations, needs to be made in the tourism literature. An understanding the role of immigrant island communities and the contribution to island resilience has been presented by Calero-Lemes and Garcia-Almeida in relation to immigrant entrepreneur knowledge in the tourism industry utilising a case example of the Eastern Canary Islands.
