This chapter summarizes the content and themes of this book on tourism crisis and disaster management in the Asia-Pacific, and identifies future research opportunities.

This chapter outlines the development of a transnational tourism risk, crisis and recovery management network, using a case study of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)'s Rapid Response Taskforce (PRRT). The core paradigm in preparing contingency measures and crisis response necessarily...

This chapter first provides the context by defining and conceptualizing tourism crises and disasters and explaining why the Asia-Pacific was chosen for this book. It then outlines the aim of the book and provides a detailed overview of subsequent chapters before finishing with a short conclusion.

The aim of this book is to contribute a much deeper understanding of tourism crisis and disaster management with a specific focus on the Asia-Pacific. Chapters contributed by international tourism scholars and practitioners discuss both the theoretical and practical approaches towards successful...

This chapter discusses the principles of sustainable water resources management, the functions of water resources systems, and the emerging challenges and opportunities for integrated water resources management in Asia and the Pacific. A case study is then presented of water quality management and...

This chapter presents options for ensuring a sustainable 'water future' for tourism as much as for community and environmental water supplies. The discussion is centred on the Asia Pacific Region and focuses on river basins (catchments); however, the comments made apply to river basins across the...

This chapter explains the role played in the globalization of the theme park industry by the main operators, the large corporations (led by Disney) and other, smaller-sized operators. Both are shaping the industry in the USA as well as in Europe and Asia/the Pacific. Case studies from Germany,...

This chapter focuses on the worldwide expansion of theme parks since the 1950s to the present, especially regarding the intensification of their growth dynamics in Europe and Asia during the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s, just when in the USA the development of the industry saturated the...

This book describes and analyses the challenges and opportunities of amenity migration to mountain areas and its management, and offers related recommendations. The book's chapters cover the subject through case studies at international, regional and local levels, along with overarching themes such ...

This chapter presents a collection of 43 Asia-Pacific case studies that exemplify ecotourism in action, illustrate some aspect of ecotourism or test the concept of ecotourism. Types of operation covered include: community projects, private tours and lodges, and public reserves and enterprises.