Archipelago Tourism Revisited

This timely and innovative book explores the dynamics of inter-island/island-island tourism - also known as archipelago tourism - on the cusp of the post-pandemic epoch.

Autorentext

Godfrey Baldacchino, PhD (Warwick, UK), is Professor of Sociology at the University of Malta and Malta Ambassador-at-Large for Islands and Small States. He is founding Editor of Island Studies Journal (20062016), former Canada Research Chair and UNESCO Co-Chair in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island (20032013; 20162020), and former President of the International Small Island Studies Association (ISISA) (20142022). His tourism-related books include Global Tourism and Informal Labour Relations: The Small Scale Syndrome at Work (1997), Extreme Tourism: Lessons from the World's Cold-Water Islands (2006), and Archipelago Tourism: Practices and Policies (2015).

Inhalt

Foreword Richard W. Butler. Editorial: The archipelagic turn in island tourism Godfrey Baldacchino PART I. Internal, sub-national archipelagos. 1. Covid-19 and post-Covid times in the Croatian archipelago. 2. Beyond glossy tourist images: Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan, through the stories of Machas, a small local grocery store. 3. Nightlife, well-being, nature, and a lighthouse: Differentiation and convergence of the post-pandemic images of the Balearic Islands through tourism. 4. Tourism in Madeira and Porto Santo: Resigned subordination or partnership?. 5. Tranquility and exclusivity: Archipelago tourism after the pandemic in Romblon, The Philippines. 6. Beyond 'the Atlantic Bubble': Considering archpelagic tourism on Canada's east coast. PART II. Complete, sovereign, archipelagic states. 7. Archipelago tourism in the tri-island state: Grenada. 8. Archipelago tourism in Seychelles: Journeys through space, time, authenticity, and exclusivity. 9. Culture, Covid-19, cyclones, and supply chains: The contraction of tourism in Vanuatu. PART III. Trans-national, regional archipelagos. 10. Challenging the 'status quo': Archipelago tourism in the central Mediterranean after the Pandemic. 11. The impromtu archipelago: Sint Maarten as the hub of the Northeastern Caribbean. 12. The complex and unequal tourism triangle of the Mascarene Islands: Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues. Conclusion. Conclusion: Unsettling cartographic imaginations.