Lessons learned : globalization, change, and resilience in tourism communities

Alan A. Lew, Joseph M. Cheer

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Abstract

![CDATA[Assessing how human social systems respond to social change is a challenge because, in most instances, the systems that are being examined are implicated as both agents and victims of the change that is taking place. This is especially true of tourism, which, as an economic activity, is an active agent in creating a more globalized and homogenous world, while also being deeply dependent on at least the perception of heterogeneous places and the uniqueness of destinations. The chapters in this book were roughly structured on this awareness, grouped into chapters that discussed how tourism (as a system) responds to broad changes in social, economic, and political conditions, and chapters in which tourism is actively used to bring about changes in those same conditions.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTourism, Resilience and Sustainability: Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change
EditorsJoseph M. Cheer, Alan A. Lew
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages319-323
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781315464053
ISBN (Print)9781138206786
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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