1st Edition
Tourism Development, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas
This book focuses on the complex issues of tourism development, governance and sustainability in the long-standing popular island destination, The Bahamas, where tourism remains one of the primary fiscal industries.
The book achieves this by looking at the impacts of mass tourism development from social, economic and environmental perspectives; panarchy and resilience; assessing sustainability; moving towards a blue economy; impacts of climate change and innovative alternative tourism offerings to ensure sustainable tourism – a welcomed but challenging essential contemporary focus of the tourism industry. It further looks at how development, governance and sustainability come together in the aftermath of a recent natural disaster, hurricane Dorian, which proved to be a strong catalyst for action, innovation and change in The Bahamas.
Given the complexity of these key concepts and The Bahamas as an established popular tourism destination archipelago which relies so heavily on the industry, this book offers significant insight for other tourism regions and will therefore be essential reading for upper-level students and academics in the field of Tourism research.
About the Editors
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword: Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace
List of Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
PART I: Development
1. Identities in Flux: Psychological acculturation and developing tourism in The Bahamas.
Dr. Mayuri Deka
2. The impact of tourism development on small island communities in The Bahamas: The
case of Abaco, Bimini and Exuma.
Jessica Minnis, Dr. Sophia Rolle & Dr. Ian A. Bethell-Bennett
3. Living on islands: Tourism and quality of life on the islands of Abaco, Bimini and Exuma
The Bahamas.
Jessica Minnis & Margo Blackwell
4. Vacation rental market in The Bahamas.
Jay Jones-Mills
5. Case Study on Bahamian Carnival
Dr. Ian Bethel-Bennett
6. Junkanoo carnival, Bahamas as a strategy for tourism development.
Dr. Ian Bethel-Bennett
PART II Governance
7. Tourism governance, panarchy and resilience in The Bahamas.
Dr. Michelle McLeod
8. Atlantis - A case study in the experience economy.
Zhivago Laing
9. The economics of smiling: A history of the Bahamian courtesy campaign 1955 - 1970.
Edward Minnis
PART III Sustainable Development
10. Assessing sustainability in small island developing states: A comparative analysis of
sustainability assessment tool and their applicability to small island developing states.
Stacey Wells-Moultrie
11. Toward A Blue Economy: Ragged Island- A case for sustainable development for the
islands of The Bahamas.
Dr. Bridgette Rolle
12. Climate change, tourism and sustainable development in The Bahamas.
Dr. Adelle Thomas and Dr. Lisa Benjamin
13. Marijuana agro -tourism habitat
Dr. Sophia A. Rolle
PART IV DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNANCE, SUSTAINABILITY: A LOOK AT HURRICANES
14. Sustaining tourism after a hurricane
Neil Sealey
15. Hurricane Dorian: A case for building comprehensive climate change resilience
Frameworks for Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean.
Dr. Teo Cooper
PART V CONCLUSION
16. Towards an understanding of the tourism experience
Dr. Joshua Carroll
Index
Biography
Sophia Rolle is Graduate Programmes Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of Tourism Management in the Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies.
Jessica Minnis is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of The Bahamas.
Ian Bethell-Bennett is an Associate Professor and former Dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas.
