Overview
- Contains the best papers presented at the 10th Tropical Tourism Outlook Conference, held in Sri Lanka from 19 to 21 October 2017
- Offers multidisciplinary perspectives on tourism, environmental sustainability, and organizational management
- Advances case studies and theoretical contributions from the Global South, with an emphasis on South and Southeast Asia
- Provides empirical investigation and naturalistic interpretation of tourism, environmental, and organizational management from the perspective of sustainable development
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Table of contents (22 papers)
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Tourism Economics
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Tourism Management
Keywords
- sustainable tourism
- environmental management
- environmental sustainability
- organizational management
- sustainable development
- consumer behavior
- tourism planning
- destination marketing
- tourism law
- indigenous communities
- tourism education
- hospitality education
- hospitality management
- sustainable tourism development
- economic development
- environmental conservation
- cultural conservation
- sustainability
About this book
The book provides a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogues that integrate different research and knowledge from diverse geographical, sectoral, and institutional perspectives. Through this approach, readers gain new perspectives to expand their skills and advance their studies and applications in the sustainable development of tourism resources and destinations, especially in developing world contexts.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Norain Othman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. Her research focuses on tourism management, tourism marketing, event management, heritage tourism and Islamic tourism.
Mohamed Aslam is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism Management at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Research and Knowledge Dissemination. His research has focused on the role of inbound travel agencies, sustainable tourism development, tea tourism, and sustainable rural tourism development.
Alan A. Lew is Professor Emeritus at Northern Arizona University, USA. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Tourism Geographies journal and his interests and writings focus on tourism across East and Southeast Asia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Travel and Tourism: Sustainability, Economics, and Management Issues
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Tourism Outlook Conferences
Editors: İnci Oya Coşkun, Nor’ain Othman, Mohamed Aslam, Alan Lew
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7068-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7067-9Published: 13 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7068-6Published: 12 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 342
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Tourism Management, Sustainability Management, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development