Over the past few years, the tourist industry has come to be recognised as a way of providing strategic support for sustainable local business development. In this article we attempt to define an appropriate innovation concept in relation to tourism on the basis of an attractor principle. We...

This paper seeks to establish the factors related to the Human Development Index, incorporating the spatial dimension in the analysis of its determinants. The variables were classified into four groups: geographic, socio-economic, demographic and infrastructure and services. The results show...

In this study a systems approach is used to evaluate community responses and perceptions to natural hazards following Hurricane Lenny, which impacted the entire Eastern Caribbean between 17th and 20th November, 1999. Drawing on disaster evidence from various researchers a conceptual framework is...