Tourism in the Caribbean: Trends, Development, ProspectsDavid Timothy Duval The Caribbean is one of the premier tourist destinations in the world. Changes in travel patterns, markets and traveller motivations have brought about considerable growth and dramatic change to the region's tourism sector. This book brings together a high calibre team of international researchers to provide an up-to-date assessment of the scope of tourism and the nature of tourism development in the Caribbean. Divided into three parts, the book:
A valuable resource for students of tourism and Caribbean studies, as well as governments, and national and regional tourism offices, this topical volume brings together excellent contributions to assess and analyze the state of the Caribbean tourism; past, present and future. |
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... ecotourism, heritage tourism, cruise tourism, community participation, management implications for tourism businesses, resorts, regional organisational structures and linkages with agriculture. Part three considers future trends ...
... ecotourism in the Caribbean 172 DAVID B. WEAVER 11 Tourism, environmental conservation and management and local agriculture in the eastern Caribbean: is there an appropriate, sustainable future for them? 187 DENNIS CONWAY 12 Community ...
... ecotourism, sustainable tourism and destination life cycle dynamics, and has authored or co-authored five books and over sixty refereed articles and book chapters on related topics. Dr Weaver is also the editor of The Encyclopedia of ...
... ecotourism and other forms of alternative tourism have proliferated, and how tourism development overall has changed the face of economic development in the Caribbean (and vice versa). It is also particularly fitting that this book is ...
... Ecotourism in the small island Caribbean', GeoJournal 31(4): 457-65. Caribbean Tourism Organization for generously allowing access to the Caribbean Tourism Statistical Report: 2000-2001 Edition and the 2001-2002 Edition. If any ...
Contents
the invention of Caribbean islands | 23 |
Global perspectives of Caribbean tourism | 39 |
meaning | 59 |
Caribbean tourism policy and planning | 81 |
Institutional arrangements for tourism in small | 99 |
Historic sites material culture and tourism in | 136 |
cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea | 152 |
Manifestations of ecotourism in the Caribbean | 172 |
problems | 205 |
operating realities | 218 |
What makes a resort complex? Reflections on the production | 235 |
gender responses | 257 |
new geographic spaces for tourism | 273 |
Future prospects for tourism in the Caribbean | 287 |
Index | 300 |
Tourism environmental conservation and management | 187 |