Island tourism and sustainable development
Subtitle: Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean experiences
By: edited by Yorghos Apostolopoulos and Dennis J. Gayle
Contributors: Apostolopoulos, Yiorgos; Gayle, Dennis John, 1949-
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Tourism; Islands -- Economic conditions; Economic development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: From MIRAB to TOURAB? Searching for sustainable development in the maritime Caribbean, Pacific, and Mediterranean / Yorghos Apostolopoulos and Dennis J. Gayle; title: Problems for managing sustainable tourism in small islands / Jerome L. McElroy and Klaus de Albuquerque; title: The development of a sustainable tourism sector in the Caribbean / Bhoendradatt Tewarie; title: Managing and sustaining tourism in small states: Singapore and the Pacific islands / Linda Low; title: Tourism development in Mediterranean islands: opportunities and constraints / Dimitri Ioannides; title: Sustainable coastal and marine tourism development: a Hobson's choice? / Vinod Sasidharan and Brijesh Thapa; title: Tourism, agriculture, and the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems in small islands / Dennis Conway; title: Island tourism development and carrying capacity / Harry Coccossis; title: Cultural tourism in small-island states: contradictions and ambiguities / Ron Ayres; title: Sustaining tourism in islands under sociopolitical adversity / Sevil Sönmez; title: Tour-operator hegemony: dependency, oligopoly, and sustainability in insular destinations / Dallen J. Timothy and Dimitri Ioannides; title: Women as producers and consumers of island tourism / Penny Davidson, Trudy Jones, and Matthias Schellhorn; title: Disease mapping and risk assessment for public health and sustainable tourism development in insular regions / Yorghos Apostolopoulos and Sevil Sönmez; title: Island-community involvement in tourism land-use planning / Philippos Loukissas and Nikolaos Triantafyllopoulos; title: Sustainable strategies and prospects for small tourist islands / Kyung-Hwan Kim and Muzaffer Uysal