Managing Coastal Tourism Resorts : : A Global Perspective / / ed. by Gareth Shaw, Sheela Agarwal.

The vast majority of existing academic research of coastal tourism resort management has been undertaken in northern and southern Europe at the expense of a wider global consideration. This book aims to address this deficit and develop a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal res...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Aspects of Tourism ; 34
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrative Material
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • The Contributors
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Development and Management of Coastal Resorts: A Global Perspective
  • Part 1: Coastal Resorts in Transition
  • Chapter 2. The Problems and Dilemmas of Northern European Post-mature Coastal Tourism Resorts
  • Chapter 3. The Resort Economy: Changing Structures and Management Issues in British Resorts
  • Chapter 4. Institutional Change and Resort Capacity: The Case of Southwest English Coastal Resorts
  • Part 2. The Diversification and Sustainable Development of Coastal Resorts
  • Chapter 5. Complexity, Interdisciplinarity and Growth Management: The Case of Maltese Resort Tourism
  • Chapter 6. Planning for Sustainable Development in Spanish Coastal Resorts
  • Chapter 7. A Tale of Two Islands: Sustainable Resort Development in Cyprus and Tenerife
  • Part 3: The Pleasure Periphery and Managing the Postmodern Coastal Resort
  • Chapter 8. The Postmodern Resort and the Pleasure Periphery: The Case of Australia's Coastal Tourism Resorts
  • Chapter 9. Malaysia's Pleasure Periphery: Coastal Resort Development and its Consequences
  • Chapter 10. Natural Heritage as Place Identity: Tofino, Canada, a Coastal Resort on the Periphery
  • Part 4: Coastal Resort Structures: Variation Versus Standardisation
  • Chapter 11. The Development of South Africa's Coastal Tourism Resorts
  • Chapter 12. Resort Structure and 'Plantation' Dynamics in Antigua and Coastal South Carolina
  • Chapter 13. Re-engineering Coastal Resorts in Mexico: Some Management Issues
  • Part 5: State Intervention and the Planning and Development of Coastal Resorts
  • Chapter 14. The Role of the State and the Rise of the Red Sea Resorts in Egypt and Israel
  • Chapter 15. Clientelist Relationships: Implications for Tourism Development in the Declining Coastal Resort of Kusadasi, Turkey
  • Chapter 16. Conclusion: Future Implications for the Development and Management of Coastal Resorts
  • References
  • Index