ABSTRACT

The new millennium has been characterised by several crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s. However, despite such challenges the global tourism system has in the main retained its past vitality although in some cases in a different form. The book investigates different kinds of "crisis" and unpacks understandings of crisis in relation to various components in the contemporary tourism system.

The aim of this book therefore is to critically analyse the relationship between tourism and crises. The volume focuses on the roles and potential of tourism for development and relations between tourism, environment and broad global process of change at different levels of analysis, highlighting different types of "crisis". In particular it questions the general conviction that tourism-led development is a sustainable and necessarily solid platform from which to develop local, national and regional economies from a range of perspectives.

Written by leading academics in the field this book offers valuable insight into tourism’s relationship with socio – cultural, environment, economic and political crisis as well as the challenges facing future tourism development.

chapter 1|11 pages

Tourism and crisis

A never-ending story?

chapter 2|23 pages

Financial crises in tourism and beyond

Connecting economic, resource and environmental securities

chapter 3|18 pages

Much ado about nothing?

Tourism and the financial crisis

chapter 4|23 pages

South Africa's destination image

Media framing and representational crises

chapter 5|18 pages

Hallmark events as a counter to economic downturn

The 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup

chapter 6|19 pages

Impacts of the global financial crisis on African tourism

A Tourism Confidence Index analysis

chapter 7|16 pages

Hibernating economic decline?

Tourism and labour market change in Europe's northern periphery

chapter 9|19 pages

Responses to climate change mitigation during recessionary times

Perspectives from accommodation providers in the Southwest of England

chapter 10|21 pages

Tourism-led development and backward linkages

Evidence from the agriculture-tourism nexus in southern Africa

chapter 11|16 pages

Ethnic tourism in Kaokoland, northwest Namibia

Cure for all or the next crisis for the OvaHimba?