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      Applying the adaptive capacity cycle to tourism development
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      Applying the adaptive capacity cycle to tourism development

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      Applying the adaptive capacity cycle to tourism development book

      An exploration of social-ecological resilience

      Applying the adaptive capacity cycle to tourism development

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      Applying the adaptive capacity cycle to tourism development book

      An exploration of social-ecological resilience
      ByEsther A. Duke, Stuart Cottrell, Jana Raadik Cottrell
      BookTourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 17
      eBook ISBN 9781315463971
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter examines the concept of the adaptive capacity cycle to understanding tourism development as it pertains to tourism resilience with a focus on disturbance and disaster scenarios. Tourism is a multifaceted adaptive system with non-linear dynamics, which can cause unpredictable complex and changing outcomes. Holling's adaptive cycle demonstrates how complex systems of ongoing transition work and this can be useful for understanding the tourism development process and planning for sustainability. The adaptive cycle shows how "sudden surprises", such as those impacting tourism destinations, may affect resilience and/or vulnerability. The case of gorilla tourism in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda, illustrates the various phases of the adaptive capacity cycle. The case of gorilla-viewing tourism in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is used to illustrate application of the adaptive capacity cycle and to explore the extent to which Holling's integrative theories of change may have practical utility. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is located in southwestern Uganda in East Africa.

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