Managing Crises in Tourism: Resilience Strategies from the Caribbean

This book examines the dilemma of overdependence on tourism in Caribbean countries and territories, and the need for a resilient path to address the industry’s vulnerability in the face of natural disasters. The chapters in the book question how tourism resilience is understood and practiced in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) and the factors that inform, undermine, or indeed redefine the sustainable resilience agenda for these territories.

With its overreliance on tourism and vulnerability to climate, the Caribbean region finds itself susceptible and in need of an innovative approach in order to survive economically. Contributors to this volume touch on all three sustainability pillars and spanning across many tourism sector considerations, such as product development, stakeholder management, hotel management, marketing and entrepreneurship.

By spanning the geography of the Anglophone and Spanish Caribbean this book offers a smorgasbord of conceptual and applied perspectives to researchers in the area of tourism resilience in SIDS. It also presents strategic considerations to public and private sector practitioners in implementing measures to strengthen the competitive positioning of their destinations as they contend with the dynamism of the external and internal environments.

Acolla Lewis-Cameron is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. She is the lead editor of Marketing Island Destinations: Concepts and Cases and co-author of Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concepts and Cases.

Leslie-Ann Jordan is a Senior Lecturer of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. She is the lead editor of ＂Sports Event Management: The Caribbean Experience＂. Her research interests include tourism development in small island developing states in the Caribbean, tourism planning and development and tourism policy and decision-making’

Sherma Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She has co-edited three books and co-authored Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concept and Cases