Bramwell Coastal Mass Tourism

Diversification and Sustainable Development in Southern Europe
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-873150-70-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 247 mm

Reihe: Aspects of Tourism

This book examines the development of mass tourism in coastal regions of Southern Europe. It provides a critical assessment of two influential policies intended to promote sustainable development, these being attempts to make mass tourism resorts more sustainable, and the development of smaller-scale, 'alternative' tourism products.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bramwell, Bill

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
Contributors
Section 1: Introduction
1 Bill Bramwell: Mass Tourism, Diversification and Sustainability in Southern Europe's Coastal Regions
2 Bill Bramwell: The Policy Context for Tourism and Sustainability in Southern Europe's Coastal Regions
Section 2: Coastal Tourism: Impacts and Policies
3 Helen Briassoulis: Crete: Endowed by Nature, Privileged by Geography, Threatened by Tourism?
4 Paris Tsartas: Tourism Development in Greek Insular and Coastal Areas: Sociocultural Changes and Crucial Policy Issues
5 Cevat Tosun, Dallen J. Timothy and Yüksel Öztürk: Tourism Growth, National Development and Regional Inequality in Turkey
6 Konstantinos Andriotis: Problems of Island Tourism Development: The Greek Insular Regions
7 Jon Sadler: Sustainable Tourism Planning in Northern Cyprus
Section 3: Mass Tourism Coastal Resorts and Sustainable Development
8 Michael Barke and John Towner: Learning From Experience? Progress Towards a Sustainable Future for Tourism in the Central and Eastern Andalucían Littoral
9 J. Fernando Vera Rebollo and Josep A. Ivars Baidal: Measuring Sustainability in a Mass Tourist Destination: Pressures, Perceptions and Policy Responses in Torrevieja, Spain,
10 Gonzalo Malvárez García, John Pollard and Rafael Domínguez Rodríguez: The Planning and Practice of Coastal Zone Management in Southern Spain
11 Xavier Campillo-Besses, Gerda K. Priestley and Francesc Romagose: Using EMAS and Local Agenda 21 as Tools Towards Sustainability: The Case of a Catalan Coastal Resort
12 Artemios Chatziathanassiou, Daphne Mavrogiorgos and Konstantinos Sioulas: Environmental Initiatives in the Hotel Sector in Greece: Case Study of the 'Green Flags' Project
Section 4: Diversified Coastal Tourism and Sustainable Development
13 Ioannis Spilanis and Helen Vayanni: Sustainable Tourism: Utopia or Necessity? The Role of New Forms of Tourism in the Aegean Islands
14 Nadia Theuma: Tourism, Culture and Cultural Tourism in Malta: The Revival of Valletta
15 Julie E. Scott: Coffee Shop Meets Casino: Cultural Responses to Casino Tourism in Northern Cyprus
16 Richard Sharpley: Tourism, Modernisation and Development on the Island of Cyprus: Challenges and Policy Responses
17 Derek Hall: Rejuvenation, Diversification and Imagery: Sustainability Conflicts for Tourism Policy in the Eastern Adriatic
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bill Bramwell is Reader in Tourism in the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has edited books on tourism in rural areas, tourism partnerships and collaboration, and tourism and sustainability in Europe. In 1993 he co-founded the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, which he continues to co-edit. His research interests in tourism include its relations with community responses, discourses of sustainability, environmental politics and policies, and growth management. He has also examined tourism policies and community responses to the industry in Malta.