Tourism is simultaneously portrayed as a destroyer of culture, undermining social norms and
economies, degrading social structures, stripping communities of individuality; and as a …

Numerous national parks have been established worldwide to protect nature, but this has
not been without social consequences for neighbouring communities. Since the social and …

Within the past century, international tourists have increasingly sought exotic destinations in
their pursuit of relaxation, escape, and adventure. Recognizing the opportunity to earn …

This chapter analyses the Caribbean tourism sector in terms of the contemporary status of
mass tourism and small-scale tourism options such as ecotourism, and position this …

How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible encounters? This book
addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the …

In recent decades, the idea of community participation has played an important role in the
search for sustainability, solidarity and inclusion in tourism development. The concept of …

An isolated and remote fishing village until the late 1960s, Negril has grown to become one
of Jamaica's largest and most rapidly expanding resort towns. This chapter seeks to …

Firstly, this study uses community asset mapping guided by the Community Capitals
Framework (CCF) to explore the linkages between Protected Areas (PAs), tourism and …

We believe that dancehall music's more sexually explicit lyrics, labeled “slack” and maligned
as evocatively misogynist, homophobic and xenophobic, mirror historically discordant social …

The second half of the twentieth century has been characterised by a major divergence in
economic performance between small island developing states (SIDS), and nowhere has …