1st Edition
Tourism Development, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas
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.
