Island Tourism and Sustainable Development: Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean Experiences

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Examines the relationship between tourism and sustainability in the world's three most significant maritime basins during an era of intense restructuring and globalization. This multidisciplinary volume dicusses the impact of tourism on sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars development practitioners, international experts, and professionals, the contributors discuss the issues from a holistic and transnational perspective. This work provides a much-needed, thorough understanding of the interplay among economic, cultural, environmental, and public health parameters. The contributors provide a workable definition of sustainable development that can be understood, conveyed, and implemented by policy makers, development practitioners, and tourism professionals. Among the special issues addressed here are the role of women in tourism, the contradictions inherent in cultural tourism, the hegemony of tour operators, disease mapping and risk assessment, and island community involvement in tourism-related land-use planning.

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YORGHOS APOSTOLOPOULOS is Research Associate Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University, Tempe. DENNIS J. GAYLE is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of International Economics, University of North Florida, Jacksonville.