In the mid-1900s, park and protected area (PPA) management agencies began to acknowledge the environmental, socioeconomic and cultural connections that existed between PPAs and gateway communities. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand the effects of shifts in the...

A major theme in the broader literature on community development planning is the need to be more flexible and inventive, calling for greater creativity in the design of tourist experiences. These calls are especially applicable to gateway communities that rely upon, and are impacted by, tourism....

This chapter discusses four case studies in Uk and one in New Zealand. The case studies present different farm management experiences of the farm owners, the problems encountered and the solutions to these problems to achieve sustainable agriculture.

In Japan, the shortage of accommodation facilities has become a concern due to the increasing number of tourists. In light of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games (moved to 2021 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic), this problem is likely to escalate and raises the need for the ...

Through a qualitative approach, including autoethnography and open-ended interviews, this study focuses on how offline peer-to-peer (P2P)-accommodation trading was used as a post-crisis recovery tool. We focused our study on Radunica Street, situated in the city centre of the Croatian city of...

In recent years, Airbnb has gained tremendous attention in sense-of-place and community-resilience research. Yet, we find few scholarly efforts to relate particular issues of community resilience to a sense of place that emerges in the wake of conspicuous place dynamics of Airbnb beyond the urban...

This chapter starts with an overall evaluation of resources for marine tourism, then applies stakeholder theory and other methodological approaches to the analysis of marine tourism policy formulation and implementation. To highlight the current problems associated with marine tourism policies, two ...

The chapter first provides background information on the evolution of community-based tourism (CBT) in Vietnam before exploring critical areas of the CBT literature. Next, the qualitative approaches utilized for the study, on which the findings and discussions are drawn upon, are presented. The...

This chapter analyses policies and stakeholders' engagement in the planning and management of festivals and cultural events. The authors, Dang et al., utilize a case-study approach with four vignettes: (i)Giong Festival (Ha Noi city); (ii)Thanh Tuyen Festival (Tuyen Quang province); (iii)Tich Dien...

This chapter offers a critical analysis of practices adopted for the implementation of sustainable development goals in the English Midlands. Through the lenses of various discourses, this case study epitomizes a long-held belief in the positive outcomes of rejuvenation and regeneration following...