1st Edition

Archipelago Tourism Policies and Practices

Edited By Godfrey Baldacchino Copyright 2015
292 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

Exploring the conceptual insights provided by the archipelagic 'twist' in the context of tourism principles, policies and practices, this volume draws on an international series of case studies to analyse best practice in branding, marketing and logistics in archipelago tourist destinations. The book asks and seeks to answer such questions as: How to 'sell' a multi-island destination, without... Read more
Editorial: More than Island Tourism; Review Essay: Navigating a World of Islands; I: Mediterranean Sea; 1: Patterns of Transportation for Tourists and Residents in the Aegean Archipelago, Greece; 2: The Malta-Gozo-Comino Story; 3: Tourism Relationships between Sardinia and its Islands; II: Atlantic Ocean; 4: Contrived Complementarity; 5: Cape Verde 2.0; 6: A Tale of Two Guernseys; 7: Remote yet Close; 8: Navigating the Caribbean Archipelago; 9: The Bahamas; III: Pacific Ocean; 10: Competing Islands? The Mamanuca and Yasawa Islands, Fiji; 11: Travel Dynamics in the Hawaiian Archipelago, USA; IV: Indian Ocean; 12: The Potential of Tourist Zones in the Maldives; 13: Travelling the Mascarenes; Conclusion: Archipelagic Tourism

Biography

Godfrey Baldacchino is Professor of Sociology at the University of Malta, Malta; Island Studies Teaching Fellow and outgoing Canada Research Chair (Island Studies) at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada; and Visiting Professor of Island Tourism at the Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France.

"The book gives an excellent overview of tourism in archipelagic contexts across various parts of the world, making useful rapprochements as well as drawing on differences to explain development challenges in island spaces. As the chapters collectively address many interconnected facets of island development that go beyond tourism, the edited volume will be of great interest to "islophiliacs" in a variety of disciplines." - Hélène B. Ducros, University of North Carolina, USA