Tourism Planning and Development in South Asia

by Dimitrios Stylidis (Editor), Boopen Seetanah (Editor)

Overview

Tourism has huge significance as a global economic and social phenomenon, and given the growing reliance on the industry by service-dependent economies around the world, the lack of focus on tourism planning and development in South Asia is surprising. Current issues including social, environmental and cultural aspects underpinned by security challenges have defined the tourism development narratives in many South Asian countries over the last decades and lead to fluid demand and supply patterns. The appetite for and reliance on tourism growth is seen regardless of the numerous challenges faced by the region. Despite a rich and steady history of tourism and demand driven by numerous pull-destinations, most South Asian countries have not invested or benefitted from global tourism growth trends.This book discusses tourism planning and development in South Asian countries and reveals successful and unsuccessful stories by:providing thorough analyses of the nature and focus on tourism development in South Asia;analysing the experiences and challenges addressed via country-focused chapters;identifying the key impacts and current challenges;including cases from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and more.Written by scholars with extensive research experience on tourism in these countries, this book is a much-needed resource and an invaluable reference for researchers, policy makers and other tourism stakeholders involved in tourism planning and development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789246698
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	04/30/2021
Series:	CABI Regional Tourism Series
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dimitrios Stylidis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Tourism Marketing at the University of Crete, Greece. Prior to this, he was Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Research Cluster Leader at Middlesex UniversityLondon, and a Postdoc Researcher and Visiting Lecturer at the Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Dimitrios holds an MSc and PhD in tourism from the University of Surrey, U.K. His research interests include place image and marketing, tourist destination image and behaviour, tourism impacts and sustainable development. His work has been published in several journals including Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, and Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Boopen Seetanah is Professor in International Economics and finance at the University of Mauritius and the WTO Chair Programme Co-Chair. He is also the director of research at the International Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality (ICSTH) at the University of Mauritius. Boopen's research interest is in international tourism and trade, international finance and applied economics. He is/has been a consultant for a number of international organisation such as the World Bank, UNEP, COMESA, RMCE, UNDP and ADB among others.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1: A Case Study on Impacts of Community Participation in Tourism Planning And Destination Management in Kerala, India.
2: Planning Agritourism Development in Sri Lanka: Farmers’ Incentives and Barriers
3: History of Tourism Planning and Development in Nepal: Achievements and Challenges to Sustainable Future of Tourism
4: Tourism in Afghanistan
5: Planning for Sustainable Tourism Development in Bhutan
6: Tourism Policy Planning in Bangladesh: Perspective and Propositions
7: Tourism Development And Its Impact On Economic Growth In Pakistan
8: The Role of International Tourism in the Maldives
Conclusions