Overview
- Applies resilience to tourism dependent Caribbean islands and territories?
- Examines whether the institutional strengths of SIDS work to strengthen or undermine resilience efforts
- Provides reader with specific examples of how island destinations are resilient despite varied vulnerabilities
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Background and Conceptual Context
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Environmental Resilience
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Socio-Cultural Resilience
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Economic Resilience
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Contemporary Landscape & Reflections
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About this book
This book examines the dilemma of overdependence on tourism in Caribbean countries and territories, and the need for a resilient path to address the industry’s vulnerability in the face of natural disasters. The chapters in the book question how tourism resilience is understood and practiced in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) and the factors that inform, undermine, or indeed redefine the sustainable resilience agenda for these territories.
With its overreliance on tourism and vulnerability to climate, the Caribbean region finds itself susceptible and in need of an innovative approach in order to survive economically. Contributors to this volume touch on all three sustainability pillars and spanning across many tourism sector considerations, such as product development, stakeholder management, hotel management, marketing and entrepreneurship.
By spanning the geography of the Anglophone and Spanish Caribbean this book offers a smorgasbord of conceptual and applied perspectives to researchers in the area of tourism resilience in SIDS. It also presents strategic considerations to public and private sector practitioners in implementing measures to strengthen the competitive positioning of their destinations as they contend with the dynamism of the external and internal environments.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Acolla Lewis-Cameron is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. She is the lead editor of Marketing Island Destinations: Concepts and Cases and co-author of Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concepts and Cases.
Leslie-Ann Jordan is a Senior Lecturer of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. She is the lead editor of “Sports Event Management: The Caribbean Experience”. Her research interests include tourism development in small island developing states in the Caribbean, tourism planning and development and tourism policy and decision-making’
Sherma Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She has co-edited three books and co-authored Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concept and Cases
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Crises in Tourism
Book Subtitle: Resilience Strategies from the Caribbean
Editors: Acolla Lewis-Cameron, Leslie-Ann Jordan, Sherma Roberts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80238-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80237-0Published: 20 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80240-0Published: 21 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80238-7Published: 19 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 303
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Tourism Management, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development