Cheer Joseph M. - Tourism, resilience and sustainability : adapting to social, political and economic change

In a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with signifcant relevance for tourism.

A paradigmatic shift is taking place in the long-term planning of tourism development, in which the prevailing focus on sustainability is being enhanced with the practical application of resilience planning. This book provides a critical appraisal of sustainability and resilience, and the relationship between the two. Contributions highlight the complexity of addressing social change with resilience planning in a range of tourism contexts, from islands to mountains, from urban to remote environments, and in a range of international settings. Case studies articulate how tourism is both an agent of social change and a victim of larger change processes, and provide important lessons on how to deal with increasingly unstable economic, social and environmental systems.

This is the frst book to specifcally examine social change and sustainability in tourism through a resilience lens. This much-needed contribution to the literature will be a key resource for those working in tourism studies, tourism planning and management, social geography, and development studies, among others.

Joseph M. Cheer is a lecturer at the National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS), Monash University and directs the activities of the Australia and International Tourism Research Unit (AITRU). His research draws from transdisciplinary perspectives, especially human geography, cultural anthropology and political economy with a focus on the Asia-Pacifc region. He is focused on research-to-practice with an emphasis on resilience building, sustainability and social justice.

Alan A. Lew is a professor and chairperson in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Recreation at Northern Arizona University, USA, where he teaches in geography, urban planning and tourism. His research interests focus on tourism in the Asia-Pacifc region, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Tourism Geographies, a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and a member of the American Institute of Certifed Planners.

Routledge Advances in Tourism

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For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com/series/SE0258

33. Wellness Tourism
A Destination Perspective
Cornelia Voigt and Christof Pforr

34. Dark Tourism and Crime
Derek Dalton

35. Knowledge Networks and Tourism
Michelle T. McLeod and Roger Vaughn

36. Destination Marketing
An International Perspective
Edited by Metin Kozak and Nazmi Kozak

37. Tourism and the Creative Industries
Theories, Policies and Practice
Edited by Philip Long and Nigel D. Morpeth

38. Positive Tourism
Edited by Sebastian Filep, Jennifer Laing and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

39. Automobile Heritage and Tourism
Edited by Michael Conlin and Lee Joliffe

40. Scotland and Tourism: The Long View 17002015
Alastair J. Durie

41. Tourism Resilience and Adaptation to Environmental Change
Definitions and Frameworks
Edited by Alan A. Lew and Joseph M. Cheer

42. Tourism, Resilience and Sustainability
Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change
Edited by Joseph M. Cheer and Alan A. Lew

43. Slow Tourism, Food and Cities
Pace and the Search for the Good Life
Edited by Michael Clancy

Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change

Edited by Joseph M. Cheer and Alan A. Lew

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PART I
Introduction

JOSEPH M. CHEER AND ALAN A. LEW

C. MICHAEL HALL

ALAN A. LEW

PART II
Social, political, and economic drivers of change

JOSEPH M. CHEER

CHRISTIAN FLEURY AND HENRY JOHNSON

LAURI JOHANNES HOOLI

RICHARD BUTLER

MARIA ALEBAkI AND DIMITRI IOANNIDES

HEIDI DAHLES

PART III
Tourism as a socio-economic driver of change

ALEXANDRA BEC, BRENT MOYLE, CHAR-LEE MCLENNAN, AND ROBYN kEAST

PILAR ESPESO-MOLINERO

XIAOQING CHEN AND ALAN A. LEW

TSUNG-CHIUNG (EMILY) WU AND GEOFFREY WALL

KEIR REEVES AND SIVESAN SIVANANDAMOORTHY

SUPATTRA SROYPETCH AND ROD CALDICOTT

GARY LACEY, BETTY WEILER, AND VICTORIA PEEL

GABRIELA ILIES

PART IV
Conclusion

ALAN A. LEW AND JOSEPH M. CHEER

Maria Alebaki holds a Phd in Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. She is currently serving as an Adjunct Lecturer in three Departments of Greece (School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Hospitality and Tourism Management, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki; MSc Tourism Business Administration, Hellenic Open University). Her research interests lie in the areas of special interest tourism, with a focus on rural and wine tourism, as well as on the resilience perspective of tourism development. Her work appears in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.

Alexandra Bec recently completed her PhD at the School of Business and Tourism at Southern Cross University and currently works as a researcher at the Griffith Institute for Tourism. Her research interests include resilience theory, change management, community and regional development, emotion, and tourism.

Richard Butler is an Emeritus Professor at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, having taught also at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Surrey, and James Cook University (Australia), CISET, (Venice) and NHTV University (Breda, the Netherlands). As a geographer, his research has focused on destination development and associated impacts, particularly in insular and remote regions. He is a past president of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies and has published twenty books and many articles on tourism and acted as advisor to UNWTO and to the Canadian, Australian and UK governments. He is the 2016 UNWTO Ulysses Laureate.