Description
This significant volume critically explores the implications of tourism safety and security and how communities in tourism destinations try to be resilient in the face of these impacts.
Written by leading scholars, this book offers new insight into the conceptual and practical knowledge of community resilience due to tourism security and safety issues. Chapters examine these topics through an integrated community perspective, to provide comprehensive consideration of the interconnected facets of a community, encompassing social, economic, environmental, and cultural dimensions when evaluating and addressing matters pertaining to tourism management, safety, security, and resilience. The book is structured around conceptual, theoretical and practical strategies employed by destinations to foster and sustain community resilience, particularly during periods of crisis as well as communities in the context of tourism recovery. It examines this across geographical borders and in many different contexts (not just locations) of tourism, or types of tourism, such religious tourism, and different types of crises, including natural disasters, pandemics, terrorism.
This book is essential reading for all tourism students, researchers and academic as well as those interested in conflict and crisis recovery.
Book Information
ISBN 9781032766911
Author Rami K. Isaac
Format Hardback
Page Count 346
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd