Cruise Tourism in the Caribbean: Selling Sunshine

This Routledge book provides an analysis of travel and tourism supply chains and business models for hotels, tour operators, cruise lines, airlines and airports and proposes environmental management techniques. A pragmatic set of solutions are offered to support the transition to lower impact tourism development worldwide.

This Routledge book contains case studies and theoretical insights applicable to the tourism development challenges of tropical coastal and island destinations throughout the world and offers tourism managers and planners insights into both the positive and negative aspects of alternative tourism development in tropical destinations. Featured case studies include: Madagascar, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Pitcairn Island, Cape Verde Islands, and the Lesser Antilles.

This Routledge book, designed for educators, researchers and students of tourism, sociology and geography, presents a synthesis of the changes in thought leadership and societal shifts in ecotourism in the 21st century. This also provides new and international case studies from emerging markets in China and Brazil.