Managing Crises in Tourism: Resilience Strategies from the Caribbean

PART I - Background and Conceptual Context. 16

CHAPTER 1 - Introduction. 17

Acolla Lewis-Cameron. 17

CHAPTER 2 - Understanding Small Island States and Territories. 24

Acolla Lewis-Cameron. 24

CHAPTER 3 - Conceptualizing Resilience in Small Island States. 39

Sherma Roberts. 39

PART II - Environmental Resilience. 66

CHAPTER 4 - Implications for Resilience in the Cruise Tourism-Marine Protected Area Nexus in the Caribbean: The Case of St. Lucia. 67

Myrna Ellis. 67

CHAPTER 5 - Tourism Resilience in the Caribbean island of Cozumel: Best practice and high-risk areas 82

Kennedy Obombo Magio. 82

CHAPTER 6 - A Resilient Eco-Tourism Island: A case study of Dominica and its tourism recovery strategies post 2017 hurricane Maria. 96

Tenisha Brown-Williams and Amanda Charles. 96

PART III - Socio-Cultural Resilience. 115

CHAPTER 7 - Community resilience in the face of natural disaster: Puerto Rico's adventure tourism industry 116

Mechelle N. Best and Jos? H. Gonz?lez. 116

CHAPTER 8 - An Integrated Path towards a Resilient Tourism Sector in North-East Tobago. 131

Joanna Moses-Wothke, Aljoscha Wothke and Leslie-Ann Jordan. 131

CHAPTER 9 - Grenada: A vision of integrated technological advancements to build a resilient tourism future through youth involvement and consumer-centric service excellence. 146

Kimberly Thomas-Francois, Ye Shen & Marion Joppe. 146

PART IV - Economic Resilience. 160

CHAPTER 10 - Increasing the Resilience of Micro, Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises to Tropical Cyclones in Small Island Developing States. 161

Thalia Balkaran and David Smith. 161

CHAPTER 11 - Building Resilience by Strengthening the Link between Tourism and Agriculture: An Assessment of the Purchasing Patterns of Selected Hotels and Guesthouses in Jamaica. 181

Tolulope Bewaji, Eritha Huntley Lewis, Clive Scott and Twila-Mae Logan. 181

CHAPTER 12 - Collaborative Tourism Entrepreneurship as a Community Resilience Strategy: A Case Study of Castara, Tobago. 195

Shinelle Smith and Leslie-Ann Jordan. 195

PART V - Contemporary Landscape & Reflections. 216

CHAPTER 13 - COVID-19 Policy Responses - The tension between lives and livelihoods in tourism dependent Caribbean territories. 217

Acolla Lewis-Cameron and Sherma Roberts. 217

CHAPTER 14 - Conclusion. 232

Sherma Roberts, Acolla Lewis-Cameron and Leslie-Ann Jordan. 232

INDEX 238

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303080237X
• ISBN13: 9783030802370
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
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