Tourism and resilience /
Contributor(s): Butler, Richard [editor.].
Publisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA, USA : CABI, 2017Description: xii, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781780648330; 9781780648330:; 1780648332.Subject(s): Tourism -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable tourism | Resilience (Ecology)DDC classification: 338.4791 BUTItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 338.4791 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Lost Checked out | 26/05/2021 | 0081624 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Richard Butler -- The development of resilience thinking / Marta Berbés-Blázquez and Daniel Scott -- Community tourism resilience : some applications of the scale, change and resiliene (SCR) model / Alan A. Lew, Tsung-chiung Wu, Chin-cheng Ni, Pin T. Ng -- Socio-ecological balance in community based tourism experiences : a resarch proposal / Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros -- Resilience and destination governance / Valerie A. Sheppard -- Resilience and destination governance : Whistler, B.C. / Valerie A. Sheppard -- Sri Lankan tourism development and implications for resilience / Jeremy Buultjens, Iraj Ratnayake, Athula Chammika Gnanapala -- Resilience, tourism and disasters / Susanne Becken and Bijan Khazai -- Resilience and perceptions of problems in alpine regions / Bruno Abegg, Robert Steiger and Lisa Trawöger -- Tourism resilience in UK national parks / Janet Cochrane -- Resilience and protected area tourism in Purnululu National Park : understanding interactions with a focus on community benefits / Jennifer Strickland-Munro -- Resilience and tourism in islands : insights from the Caribbean / Arjen Alberts and Godfrey Baldacchino -- Resilience and tourism in remote locations : Pitcairn Islands / Maria Amoamo -- Issues of resilience, sustainability and responsibility in tourism / Harold Goodwin -- Betting on casino tourism resilience : a case study of casino expansion in Macao and the Asia region / Glenn McCartney -- Resilience as new political reality / Jonathan Pugh -- Conclusions / Richard Butler.
This text discusses the concept of resilience and its application to tourism. It compares the relevance of resilience to sustainability; the former focusing on the well-being and survival of the places affected and the latter focusing on the agent of impact, tourism itself.