Tourism in the Caribbean: Trends, Development, Prospects

by Duval,David Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780415303620
• ISBN10: 0415303621
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-03-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Tourism in the Caribbeanpulls together a high caliber team of international researchers to assess and analyze the state of tourism past, present, and future. It highlights the central issues of tourism development in the Caribbean and provides a range of theoretical frameworks, methodological tools, and case studies from which future directions in management and development might be based.

Author Biography

Tim Coles, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Human Geography and University Business Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Dennis Conway is Professor of Geography and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington David Timothy Duval is a Lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago Gordon Ewing is currently Chair of the Department of Geography at McGill University William C. Found (University Professor, York University) is jointly appointed between the Faculty of Environmental Studies and the Department of Geography K. Michael Haywood is Professor Emeritus, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Guelph Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, Ph.D., is the Academic Director - M.Sc. in Tourism and Hospitality Management, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management and Research Fellow of the University of the West Indies Leslie-Ann Jordan is on a New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarship and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Tourism at the University of Otago Jerome L. McElroy: St Mary's College where he is currently Professor of Economics Beth Mills (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) has travelled and worked in Grenada and the Grenadines since 1975 Simon Milne is Professor of Tourism in the Business Faculty, Auckland University of Technology Janet Henshall Momsen is Professor of Geography in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis Mimi Sheller is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University Dallen J. Timothy is Associate Professor at Arizona State University and Visiting Professor of Heritage Tourism at Sunderland University, United Kingdom David B. Weaver, Ph.D., is Professor of Tourism and Events Management in the Department of Health, Fitness and Recreation Resources at George Mason University Paul F. Wilkinson is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and the Graduate Program in Geography at York University Robert E. Wood is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, Camden Campus

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvi
PART I Trends in Caribbean tourism	1	(56)
1 Trends and circumstances in Caribbean tourism	3	(20)
DAVID TIMOTHY DUVAL
2 Natural hedonism: the invention of Caribbean islands as tropical playgrounds	23	(16)
MIMI SHELLER
3 Global perspectives of Caribbean tourism	39	(18)
JEROME L. McELROY
PART II Tourism development in the Caribbean	57	(214)
4 Tourism development in the Caribbean: meaning and influences	59	(22)
DAVID TIMOTHY DUVAL AND PAUL F. WILKINSON
5 Caribbean tourism policy and planning	81	(18)
PAUL F. WILKINSON
6 Institutional arrangements for tourism in small twin-island states of the Caribbean	99	(20)
LESLIE-ANN JORDAN
7 Tourism and supranationalism in the Caribbean	119	(17)
DALLEN J. TIMOTHY
8 Historic sites, material culture and tourism in the Caribbean islands	136	(16)
WILLIAM C. FOUND
9 Global currents: cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea	152	(20)
ROBERT E. WOOD
10 Manifestations of ecotourism in the Caribbean	172	(15)
DAVID B. WEAVER
11 Tourism, environmental conservation and management and local agriculture in the eastern Caribbean: is there an appropriate, sustainable future for them?	187	(18)
DENNIS CONWAY
12 Community participation in Caribbean tourism: problems and prospects	205	(13)
SIMON MILNE AND GORDON EWING
13 Tourism businesses in the Caribbean: operating realities	218	(17)
K. MICHAEL HAYWOOD AND CHANDANA JAYAWARDENA
14 What makes a resort complex? Reflections on the production of tourism space in a Caribbean resort complex	235	(22)
TIM COLES
15 Hucksters and homemakers: gender responses to opportunities in the tourism market in Carriacou, Grenada	257	(14)
BETH MILLS
PART III Future prospects	271	(29)
16 Post-colonial markets: new geographic spaces for tourism	273	(14)
JANET HENSHALL MOMSEN
17 Future prospects for tourism in the Caribbean	287	(13)
DAVID TIMOTHY DUVAL
Index	300