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