"This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world, addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices. It reviews a variety of systems useful for analysing and understanding management issues to offer new...

Knowledge management and the development of the destination’s capacity of the intellectual skills needed to use tourism as an effective tool in the search for regeneration and development are central themes explored within this paper. The authors have lived and worked with the problems...

Introduction / Peter Wiltshier and John B. Read IV -- Appalachian Trail communities : gateway partners in parks and protected area management / Robert S. Bristow, Julie Judkins, and Jessica Schottanes -- Building a gateway to the Arctic : a political economy perspective on tourism development...

Purpose: Violent geo-political conflicts are on the rise across the globe, particularly within fragile states. Using path-dependency theory, this paper aims to explore Fiji in the context of its public administrative history examining the legacies of history that have contributed to its ongoing...

The early trapezitai (moneylenders) of Greece are credited with offering the first rudimentary payment system, in which a credit note given to a trader in one Greek port could be cashed with a moneylender in another, thus transferring funds (Lopez, 1979). Today, the provision of a payment system...