This book examines the dilemma of overdependence on tourism in Caribbean countries and territories, and the need for a resilient path to address the industrys vulnerability in the face of natural disasters. The chapters in the book question how tourism resilience is understood and practiced in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) and the factors that inform, undermine, or indeed redefine the sustainable resilience agenda for these territories.
With its overreliance on tourism and vulnerability to climate, the Caribbean region finds itself susceptible and in need of an innovative approach in order to survive economically. Contributors to this volume touch on all three sustainability pillars and spanning across many tourism sector considerations, such as product development, stakeholder management, hotel management, marketing and entrepreneurship.
By spanning the geography of the Anglophone and Spanish Caribbean this book offers a smorgasbord of conceptual and applied perspectives to researchers in the area of tourism resilience in SIDS. It also presents strategic considerations to public and private sector practitioners in implementing measures to strengthen the competitive positioning of their destinations as they contend with the dynamism of the external and internal environments.
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Part I Background and Conceptual Context |
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2 Understanding Small Island States and Territories |
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3 Conceptualizing Resilience in Small Island States |
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Part II Environmental Resilience |
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4 Implications for Resilience in the Cruise Tourism-Marine Protected Area Nexus in the Caribbean: The Case of St. Lucia |
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5 Tourism Resilience in the Caribbean Island of Cozumel: Best Practice and High-Risk Areas |
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6 A Resilient Eco-Tourism Island: A Case Study of Dominica and Its Tourism Recovery Strategies Post 2017 Hurricane Maria |
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Part III Socio-Cultural Resilience |
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7 Community Resilience in the Face of Natural Disaster: Puerto Rico's Adventure Tourism Industry |
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8 An Integrated Path Towards a Resilient Tourism Sector in North-East Tobago |
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9 Grenada: A Vision of Integrated Technological Advancements to Build a Resilient Tourism Future Through Youth Involvement and Consumer-Centric Service Excellence |
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Part IV Economic Resilience |
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10 Increasing the Resilience of Micro, Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises to Tropical Cyclones in Small Island Developing States |
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11 Building Resilience by Strengthening the Link Between Tourism and Agriculture: An Assessment of the Purchasing Patterns of Selected Hotels and Guesthouses in Jamaica |
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12 Collaborative Tourism Entrepreneurship as a Community Resilience Strategy: A Case Study of Castara, Tobago |
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Part V Contemporary Landscape & Reflections |
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13 COVID-19 Policy Responses---The Tension Between Lives and Livelihoods in Tourism-Dependent Caribbean Territories |
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Acolla Lewis-Cameron is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. She is the lead editor of Marketing Island Destinations: Concepts and Cases and co-author of Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concepts and Cases.
Leslie-Ann Jordan is a Senior Lecturer of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. She is the lead editor of Sports Event Management: The Caribbean Experience. Her research interests include tourism development in small island developing states in the Caribbean, tourism planning and development and tourism policy and decision-making
Sherma Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She has co-edited three books and co-authored Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concept and Cases
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