This edited collection considers sustainability in the context of destination branding and marketing. Through the presentation of cases and examples, the book provides a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for branding and marketing for sustainable tourism development. Throughout the 20...

This chapter investigates how a major hotel group based in Mauritius, LUX* Resorts & Hotels, has implemented policies geared towards sustainable development. It discusses how the group aligns its strategies with national and international sustainable policies and sheds some light on the types...

This chapter provides practical guidelines to study the incorporation of sustainability into public tourism policies, with an intensive focus on promoting the incorporation of sustainability into tourist's behaviour. The output allows the identification of a set of issues of great interest,...

This chapter offers a critical analysis of tourism development policy in Chile. It specifically analyses the commitment of public policy to sustainability as a pillar of indigenous tourism and highlights the contradictions of tourism development under the country's economic model. It is...

This chapter refers to long-term observations and research carried out in different touristic environments in the French Alps over the past 30 years. Focusing on the dilemmas and challenges of tourism policy and engineering facing climate and cultural change, it examines and discusses the processes ...

This book aims to update the last volume, Disappearing Destinations (2011), and presents new cases that discuss current threats and consequences of climate change predictions on coastal tourism destinations. In this context, predicted changes and implications for management and policy at such...

This chapter explores current challenges to managing expedition-style cruise activities from the perspective of destination sustainability through a comparative case study of three heritage destinations: the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area in Queensland; the West Kimberley National Heritage...

This chapter examines the global, international and national policy and planning infrastructure that contributes to rural tourism sustainability from which regional and local development can emerge. It uses examples from developed economies to illustrate the points made.

This chapter studies the profile of sustainable tourists and the expenditure patterns at destinations, using data from a survey of 1180 tourists who visited Andalusia, Spain, during 2013. The study begins by identifying the profile of a 'sustainable tourist'. Then, by means of a regression model,...

This chapter provides an overview of the historical phases of the development of tourism in Latvia, evaluating how tourism governance arrangements in Latvia inform tourism policy, planning and management. It considers how tourism policy and planning, in Latvia, has incorporated the principles of...