Tourism Interventions

<p>This book brings together in one volume the various types of interventions that can steer tourism towards positive impacts (and/or prevent negative impacts) on the destinations where tourism is taking place.</p><p>Interventions in tourism studies have been viewed primarily as ‘public interventions’ and mainly in the sphere of public policies planning and development. This book however adopts a larger viewpoint by considering the concept of intervention in areas other than the public sector. The purpose therefore is to look into different meanings and uses of the notion of intervention which might involve the initiatives of a variety of actors or agents across locales borders or scales as well as how the impacts of tourism on a place have been dealt with. To this end the book examines tourism interventions and their role in making or breaking places as initiated and implemented by a variety of stakeholders (public/private sector NGOs and local communities) by exploring the realities of tourism interventions and how they are utilized to alleviate the negative impacts of tourism; innovative and successful interventions that have contributed to tourism’s making of places; and the way in which certain interventions have not been particularly successful or ‘failing forward’. This significant volume moves beyond considerations of ‘just’ policy or ‘just’ marketing and brings together different forms of action or inaction in one category which is a useful response to the variety of actors and initiatives in the tourism space.</p><p>This book provides students researchers and academics with new insight and understanding of how best to sustainably develop promote and manage tourism and how to help destinations become more resilient in the face of future crises.</p>