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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... visiting posts at Harvard, the Cuban Academy of Sciences, and Umea University, Sweden (from which he holds an honorary doctoral degree). K, Michael Haywood is Professor Emeritus, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University ...
... Visiting Professor of Heritage Tourism at Sunderland University, United Kingdom. His current research interests in tourism include politics and political boundaries, planning in developing and peripheral regions, heritage, shopping and ...
... visitor expenditures in the region. Using the data on visitor numbers and expenditures combined with consumer price index shifts for the Bahamas, Wilkinson (1996: 33) noted that: 'In real terms, the Bahamas is only slightly better off ...
... visitors (Pattullo 1996). Beginning in the 1950s, but continuing to the present day, many Caribbean nationals migrated (voluntarily, but occasionally out of economic necessity) to the United Kingdom, Canada, New York, Florida and ...
... visitor segments in key origin markets, while on the other hand it hints at the acceptance of a more responsible management regime incorporating an important economic sector. Examples include the growth in nature-based products (e.g. ...
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 |