Managing Coastal Tourism Resorts: A Global PerspectiveSheela Agarwal, Gareth Shaw Drawing on examples from a range of economies and environments, this text develops a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal resorts. The main management themes highlighted include the processes of restructuring, and attempts to develop sustainable agendas. |
Contents
Illustrative Material | 10 |
Coastal Resorts in Transition | 15 |
Changing Structures and Management | 40 |
The Case | 56 |
Planning for Sustainable Development in Spanish | 90 |
Sustainable Resort Development | 112 |
The Pleasure Periphery and Managing the Postmodern | 135 |
Coastal Resort Development | 154 |
Resort Structure and Plantation Dynamics in Antigua | 204 |
Some | 216 |
State Intervention and the Planning and Development | 233 |
and towns | 237 |
Implications for Tourism | 250 |
Future Implications for the Development | 270 |
References | 285 |
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