
Sustainable Tourism Practices in the Mediterranean
- 188 pages
- English
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Sustainable Tourism Practices in the Mediterranean
About this book
Sustainable Tourism Practices in the Mediterranean showcases and examines the current and future trends in sustainable tourism in this popular region where tourism is one of the leading determinants of economic development.
This volume examines the effects of specific recent events including terrorism, financial crises and various political changes in the Mediterranean region. Looking at a range of destinations, island and mainland, urban and rural, summer and winter and emergent and declining zones, it provides a comprehensive overview of this area. It also draws on a number of wide-ranging themes such as gastronomy, (corporate) social responsibility, entrepreneurship, ethical issues, service quality, health and the slow city, offering an insightful study of the challenges the Mediterranean region faces and the sustainable practices that can be implemented in order to overcome them.
Written by leading academics in the field, this book will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers and academics in Tourism, Development Studies and Geography.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 A content analysis of sustainable development in the tourism literature
- 2 Sustainable tourism development: issues and applications in the Mediterranean region
- 3 Sustainability in gastronomy tourism: the Mediterranean region
- 4 Social sustainability and innovations in tourism: cases from Slovenia
- 5 Social entrepreneurship and ethical issues: examples from the Mediterranean
- 6 Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development in the Mediterranean: the case of the Spanish hotel industry in the Barcelona region
- 7 Customer relationship management and service challenges in the Mediterranean region
- 8 Freshwater and wastewater management in Mediterranean hotels and resorts: owner-operator issues
- 9 Food tourism and foodies in Italy: the role of the Mediterranean diet between resilience and sustainability
- 10 Promoting the Slow City concept as a sustainability strategy: the Seferihisar case
- 11 Health tourism in the Mediterranean
- Index