Tourism and Sustainable Community Development (Routledge Advances in Tourism)

This collection of international case studies addresses the crucial issue of sustainable tourism development by asking what local communities can contribute to sustainable tourism, and what sustainability can offer communities in return.

Derek Hall is Head of the Leisure and Tourism Department at the Scottish Agricultural College and has a personal chair in regional development. He has particular interests in welfare issues in tourism and in the role of tourism in restructuring processes in central and eastern Europe.

Greg Richards is Lecturer in Tourism Management at Tilburg University and is co-ordinator of the European Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS). He has directed a number of ATLAS projects for the European Commission on topics including sustainable tourism.