The practice of sustainable tourism : resolving the paradox / edited by Michael Hughes, David Weaver and Christof Pforr.

Introduction / Michael Hughes, Christof Pforr and David Weaver -- Enlightened Mass Tourism as a "Third Generation" aspiration for the 21st Century / David Weaver -- Tourism Policy for the Pursuit of Sustainability : Discrepancies between Rhetoric and Reality / Christof Pforr -- Promoting inter-disciplinary sustainable tourism / Michael Hughes and Angus Morrison-Saunders -- The End of Sustainable Tourism? : Re-orienting the debate / Sanjay Nepal, Stephanie Verkoeyen and Tom Karrow -- Sustainable tourism : paradoxes, inconsistencies and a way forward? / Richard Butler -- Island tourism : Systems modelling for sustainability / Jack Carlsen -- Tourists' perceptions of community based tourism products for sustainable tourism in Bali, Indonesia / Ni Made Ernawati, Ross Dowling and Dale Sanders -- The governmentality approach to sustainable tourism : Bhutan's tourism governance policy and planning / Simon Teoh -- Last Chance tourism : a race to be last? / Jackie Dawson, Harvey Lemelin, Emma Stewart and Justin Taillon -- Sustainable tourism development on Niue : a catch 22? / Christof Pforr and Dirk Reiser -- An integrated approach to climate change and tourism in an alpine destination : assessing impacts and strategies in the Vinschgau/Venosta valley, Italy / Lon-Marie Lun, Marianna Elmi and Harald Pechlaner -- Good governance : managing growth and long-term resort destination sustainability and resilience / Valerie Sheppard, Rachel Dodds and Peter Williams -- Geotourism's contribution to sustainable tourism / Ross Dowling -- The paradox of adopting tourism ecolabels : What is the problem? / Minjuan Deng-Westphal, Sue Beeton and Alastair Anderson -- The role of events in creating sustainable tourism destinations / Judith Mair -- Sustainable tourism : the Rottnest Island experience / Roland Mau and John Tedesco -- Paradox as a pervasive characteristic of sustainable tourism : Challenges, opportunities and trade-offs / David Weaver, Michael Hughes and Christof Pforr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.