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 significant 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 first book to specifically 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.

PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Understanding tourism resilience: Adapting to social, political and economic changeJoseph Cheer and Alan A. Lew 2. Resilience in tourism: Development, theory, and applicationC. Michael Hall 3. Planning for slow resilience in a tourism community contextAlan A. Lew PART 2: SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC DRIVERS OF CHANGE 4. Resilience in the visitor economy: Cultural economy, human social networks, and slow change in the regional periphery Joseph M. Cheer 5. Tourism and resilience on Jersey: Culture, environment, and seaChristian Fleury and Henry Johnson 6. From warrior to beach boy: The resilience of the Maasai in Zanzibar’s tourism business Lauri Johannes Hooli 7. Resilience in the face of changing circumstances: Fair Isle, ShetlandRichard Butler 8. Threats and obstacles to resilience: Insight's from Greece's wine tourismMaria Alebaki and Dimitri Ioannides 9. The sustainability of small business resilience: The local tourism industry of Yogyakarta, Indonesia a decade after the crisisHeidi Dahles PART 3: TOURISM AS A SOCIO-ECONOMIC DRIVER OF CHANGE 10. Strategies for building community resilience to long-term structural change in the Mackay and Whitsunday regions of Queensland, AustraliaAlexandra Bec, Brent Moyle, Char-lee McLennan and Robyn Keast 11. Collaborative capacity building as a resilience strategy for tourism development in indigenous MexicoPilar Espeso-Molinero 12. Resilience and rural tourism development in rural China: Huangling Village in Jiangxi ProvinceXiaoqing Chen and Alan A. Lew 13. Learning from Dabang, Taiwan: Sustainbility and resilience in action in indigenous tourism developmentTsung-Chiung (Emily) Wu and Geoffrey Wall 14. Tourism, history, identity, and community resilience in the world heritage city of Kandy, Sri LankaKeir Reeves and Sivesan Sivanandamoorthy 15. Backpacker tourism in Fiji as a sustainability intervention: Will they sink or swim?Supattra Sroypetch and Rod Caldicott 16. Sustainability or resilience? Poverty-related philanthropic tourism as an agent for deliberate slow changeGary Lacey, Betty Weiler and Victoria Peel 17. Between resilience and preservation strategies: Traditional villages from Maramures Land, RomaniaGabriela Ilies PART 4: CONCLUSIONS 18. Lessons learned: Globalization, change and resilience in tourism communitiesAlan A. Lew & Joseph Cheer

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-Pacific 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-Pacific 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 Certified Planners.