Routledge Handbook on Tourism and Small Island States in the Pacific

This handbook critically examines the development and role of tourism in small Pacific Island states, covering issues such as growth, climate change, policy, and sustainable development. It highlights the challenges and opportunities faced by these states and provides insights into tourism development strategies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 404 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive handbook delves into the evolution and significance of tourism in the small Pacific Island states situated across Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The volume offers a thorough assessment of the current issues, challenges, and opportunities faced by the 13 self-governing states. With an interdisciplinary approach and a diverse array of international authorship, the handbook incorporates 27 specially commissioned and original contributions. Organized into four thematic sections, adorned with insightful tables and illustrations throughout, the overarching aim of this volume is to contribute to shaping the role of tourism, tourism development, and the tourism industry within the context of self-governing Pacific Island states navigating the complexities of pursuing independent development paths.

In pursuit of this objective, the work highlights and unravels various tourism development complexities in the Pacific, closely examining the interwoven sociocultural, geopolitical, environmental, organizational, operational, and strategic challenges. This volume thus explores a wide range of topics, including facilitators and inhibitors of tourism growth and development, climate change, ecological concerns, and eco-tourism, non-tourism and undertourism, crisis management and the COVID-19 virus, transportation and tourism infrastructure concerns, tourism policy and planning (including tourism governance), sectoral links between tourism, food and agriculture, gender and micro-entrepreneurship, community management and participation, cultural and natural heritage sites, and the handicraft industry.

Critical attention is paid to the diverse trajectories of sustainable tourism and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the numerous challenges and concerns raised, the book remains optimistic about the potential for tourism to contribute to the sustainable development and well-being of these Pacific Island nations.

Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367030322