Indian Tourism brings together leading experts from all over the world to assess the challenges and opportunities of the tourism sector in India and its correlation to the country’s economic performance and prospects. Comparing current Indian tourism practices and performance with other global
destinations enables a fascinating critical analysis of India's tourism sector in past and future national contexts.
Establishing Indian Tourism in relation to global practices, as well as reviewing the research on the nation’s tourism industry, authors also examine tourism products and experiences in the Indian context, including wellness tourism, cultural tourism, rural tourism, and dark tourism. The work
is concluded by charting the way forward for Indian tourism performance, examining issues including converging responsible tourism with SMART destinations, climate change and India, and making India a safe destination.
Many cities focused on tourist development and city marketing to keep their economies afloat during the financial crisis of 2008-2013, but the subsequent economic recovery saw a combination of growing visitor numbers, changing behavior patterns and price hikes, especially in real estate, that
created the conditions for a 'perfect storm'. Anti-tourism protests have emerged and have even started to dominate the political debate in cities around the world, especially in Europe. Cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin and Lisbon have developed policies to mitigate the negative
externalities of tourism growth for their residents. Jeroen Oskam's wide ranging work examines many of the most important issues in the debate on overtourism including:
crowdedness and competition between tourists and locals in the use of city services
displacement of services catering to locals by tourist amenities
cultural or physical alienation
protests against overtourism often associate the phenomenon with the presence of urban vacation rentals
measures against overtourism, e.g. restrictions on short-term rentals, access restrictions, economic measures and reconducting tourist streams.
The academic debate in this book spans multiple disciplines, such as Tourism, Geography, Urban Planning, Law and Economics. The approaches are equally varied: while many Tourism scholars try to save or justify tourism growth, Urban Planners may preferably seek to prevent gentrification, to minimize
tourism externalities and to 'return' the city to its residents. The purpose of this book is to include the different positions in the debate; to give insight in the potential future evolution of the phenomenon; to propose policies and strategies and to identify underlying mechanisms of the
massification of travel.
The tourism industry is made up of a wide cluster of sectors having specific requirements related to planning for and recovery from tourism destination disasters. Crises faced by tourism destinations have been examined by authors from many angles, including recovery strategies, models for analyzing
and developing effective tourism disaster management strategies, economic assessment of policy responses, effects on tourism forecasting and processes for a holistic approach to crises and disaster management in public and private sector organizations.
Tourism Risk: Crisis and Recovery Management is structured in two parts. The first part focuses on “disaster management strategies” and collects chapters analyzing potential obstacles to preventing destruction from (natural) disasters through advocacy, knowledge management, better
coordination, capacity building strategies, and better preparedness through advanced emergency response. The second part focuses on recovery management strategies and collects chapters focusing on the tasks which managers face after the immediate consequences of a crisis have been dealt with,
addressing the question of how to rebuild the market for a tourism service or destination which has experienced a significant catastrophe, and how to learn from the experience to plan for future crisis response strategies.
Tourism Risk: Crisis and Recovery Management is the result of research from varied nationalities and aims to provide a comprehensive collection of new insights for traditional paradigms, as well as exploring more recent developments in research methodology in the context of crisis management in
tourism.