This book explores the relationship between transition and tourism geographies on a global scale, discussing how tourism has been used as a tool to recover from decline or to manage change caused by event-driven, rapid transitions in a region's economy, politics or environment. With case studies from Europe, America, Asia and Africa, it provides examples of how specific communities and industries around the globe have reacted for better or worse. It also includes analyses of shifts within the tourism industry itself and examines the complex issues arising for localities that have to face the demands and standards of an increasingly globally interlinked tourism industry. From Whistler to Angola, casino gaming in Colorado to art tourism in Japan, the contributors investigate such factors as tourism-induced community change; the social and economic impacts second-home owners have on rural communities in the developing world; reconstruction of local tourism systems after crisis events such as wars; and the competitiveness of ski areas in light of climate change. Overall, the book offers a thoughtful study of the role of geographical and temporal scales for tourism during periods of unprecedented transition, equipping readers with new ways of conceptualizing change and adaptation.

Autorentext
Dieter K. Müller holds a PhD from Umeå University, Sweden, where he is now employed as a professor. Currently, he is dean of the Faculty of Social Science and chairperson for the IGU Commission Geography, Leisure and Global Change. His research main interests are tourism and regional development, mobility and tourism in peripheral areas, more specifically, all aspects of second homes and second-home related mobility, Sami tourism, nature-based tourism, tourism labor markets, regional development and rural change particularly in Northern peripheries and Polar areas. Müller has recently published the following books; Nordic Tourism (2009, together with C.M. Hall and J. Saarinen); Polar Tourism: A Tool for Regional Development (2011 with Grenier); and New Issues in Polar Tourism (2013 with Lemelin and Lundmark). Currently he is working on a book on Arctic Indigenous Tourism together with Arvid Viken, University of Tromsø.
Marek Wickowski is a professor at the Insitute of the Geography and Spatial Organization at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 2014 he was nominated as the director of the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris. During his post-doc program (2002-2004) he worked as a researcher at the ENS LSH in Lyon (France). Wickowski prepared his PhD thesis on cross-border cooperation between Poland and Slovakia and his habilitation on tourism development in the Polish borderlands. His research interests in tourism include tourism development in borderlands (e.g. relationships between tourism and borders), tourism development in mountains and protected areas, mobility aspects, accessibility to tourism destinations and self-catering accommodation. Today Wickowski is also editor-in-chief for Geographia Polonica.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Tourism and transition (Dieter K. Müller).- Chapter 2. Challenges to the resilience of Whistler's journey towards sustainability (Alison Gill).- Chapter 3. Capabilities and limitations for developing a public use program in conservation units of the state of Amazonas, Brazil: The case of Igapó Açú sustainable development reserve (Davis Gruber Sansolo).- Chapter 4. Maritime cruises: oligopoly, centralization of capital and corporate use of Brazilian territory (Rita de Cássia Ariza da Cruz).- Chapter 5. Cruise tourism: from regional saturation towards global dynamic equilibrium (Denis Ceri).- Chapter 6. Chances and problems of development based on art tourism in the Seto Inland Sea (Carolin Funck).- Chapter 7. Transitions in community sense of place across tourism development stages: the role of Glipin county, Colorado (Patricia A. Stokowoski).- Chapter 8. Second home tourism: social and economic impacts in developing countries like South Africa (Anette Hay).- Chapter 9.