Managing Sustainable Tourism tackles the tough issues within the tourism industry, such as impacts on the natural and built environment and concerns for the history, heritage, and culture of local communities to provide answers that produce positive and quality economic growth for the tourism industry.

It offers practical policies and plans for fostering harmonious relationships among local communities, the private sector, not-for-profit organizations academic institutions, and governments at all levels, as well as developing management practices and philosophies for the protection of natural, built, and cultural environments while reinforcing positive and orderly economic growth.

It also confronts and explains the challenges on the tourism industry with respect to overtourism, climate change and global warming.

Since the second edition, there have been many important developments in the field of sustainable tourism, and this third edition presents updated research and information in the following ways:

• Updated content to reflect issues and trends, including new directions in sustainable tourism development;
• New and updated international case studies of successes and failures to reflect current challenges and practices;
• A partial history of sustainable tourism from ancient times to the present;
• New concepts in sustainable tourism practices such as overtourism and undertourism;
• Transformative leadership and policies and their impact on sustainable tourism development.

This volume provides a wealth of information and guidance on managing sustainable tourism and it will be invaluable to educators, students, developers, entrepreneurs, strategic planners and policymakers

Format Häftad Omfång 304 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Taylor & Francis Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2019-12-23 ISBN 9780367331382