Coastal mass tourism [[electronic resource] ] : diversification and sustainable development in southern Europe / / edited by Bill Bramwell

• Pubblicazione: Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Channel View Publications, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/79140946
• Soggetto topico: Ecotourism - Europe, Southern; Ecotourism - Mediterranean Region; Sustainable development - Europe, Southern; Sustainable development - Mediterranean Region
• Soggetto non controllato: coastal tourism; mass tourism development; mass tourism; sustainability; sustainable development; sustainable tourism; tourism development; tourism diversification; tourism in coastal regions; tourism policy
• Altri autori: BramwellBill <1955->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; The Contributors; 1 Mass Tourism, Diversification and Sustainability in Southern Europe's Coastal Regions; 2 The Policy Context for Tourism and Sustainability in Southern Europe's Coastal Regions; 3 Crete: Endowed by Nature, Privileged by Geography, Threatened by Tourism?; 4 Tourism Development in Greek Insular and Coastal Areas: Sociocultural Changes and Crucial Policy Issues; 5 Tourism Growth, National Development and Regional Inequality in Turkey; 6 Problems of Island Tourism Development: The Greek Insular Regions ; 7 Sustainable Tourism Planning in Northern Cyprus8 Learning From Experience? Progress Towards a Sustainable Future for Tourism in the Central and Eastern Andalucían Littoral; 9 Measuring Sustainability in a Mass Tourist Destination: Pressures, Perceptions and Policy Responses in Torrevieja, Spain; 10 The Planning and Practice of Coastal Zone Management in Southern Spain; 11 Using EMAS and Local Agenda 21 as Tools Towards Sustainability: The C
• Sommario/riassunto: This text examines the development of mass tourism in coastal regions of Southern Europe, with implications for similar regions. It provides a critical assessment of attempts to make mass tourism resorts more sustainable, and the development of smaller-scale, alternative tourism products.
• Titolo autorizzato: Coastal mass tourism
• ISBN: 1-280-62798-0; 9786610627981; 1-873150-70-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780595203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Aspects of tourism ; ; 12.