Sustainable Tourism

Sustainable Tourism is an authoritative text which provides an accessible guide to the current approaches, issues and experiences in the geography of sustainable tourism. It provides in-depth debates on the contemporary geographical approaches to sustainable tourism and provides relevant supporting global case studies. The text is divided into two sections, the first examines a variety of contemporary approaches to sustainable tourism from a number of different disciplinary and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Contributions are made from the fields of economic geography and cultural geography as well as the more traditional resource management field. The collection of chapters help convey to the reader how issues of sustainability are related to contemporary geographical debates over restructuring, postfordism, cultural identity, and place promotion as well as research on management frameworks and techniques to ameliorate environmental impacts. The second section presents relevant and supporting case studies on sustainable tourism which vary in location and developmental context.
Key features* case studies are used to help illustrate themes and issues discussed * case studies are global in scope* brings together well-established contributors from around the world* provides a concise guide to the current approaches and issues * conveys how issues of sustainability are related to contemporary geographical debatesSustainable Tourism is an essential text for undergraduates taking courses in tourism, environmental studies and other related courses.Professor C. Michael Hall is based in the Centre for Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He also holds positions as Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Natural Heritage Foundation and as Visiting Professor in the School of Food and Leisure Management at Sheffield Hallam University.Professor Alan A. Lew is based in the Department of Geography and Public Planning, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA and is currently Visiting Fellow in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and is the founding editor of the journal Tourism Geographies.