PART I - Background and Conceptual Context. 16
CHAPTER 1 - Introduction. 17
Acolla Lewis-Cameron. 17 CHAPTER 2 - Understanding Small Island States and Territories. 24
Acolla Lewis-Cameron. 24
CHAPTER 3 - Conceptualizing Resilience in Small Island States. 39
Sherma Roberts. 39
PART II - Environmental Resilience. 66 CHAPTER 4 - Implications for Resilience in the Cruise Tourism-Marine Protected Area Nexus in the Caribbean: The Case of St. Lucia. 67
Myrna Ellis. 67 CHAPTER 5 - Tourism Resilience in the Caribbean island of Cozumel: Best practice and high-risk areas 82
Kennedy Obombo Magio. 82
CHAPTER 6 - A Resilient Eco-Tourism Island: A case study of Dominica and its tourism recovery strategies post 2017 hurricane Maria. 96
Tenisha Brown-Williams and Amanda Charles. 96
PART III - Socio-Cultural Resilience. 115 CHAPTER 7 - Community resilience in the face of natural disaster: Puerto Rico's adventure tourism industry 116
Mechelle N. Best and José H. González. 116 CHAPTER 8 - An Integrated Path towards a Resilient Tourism Sector in North-East Tobago. 131
Joanna Moses-Wothke, Aljoscha Wothke and Leslie-Ann Jordan. 131
CHAPTER 9 - Grenada: A vision of integrated technological advancements to build a resilient tourism future through youth involvement and consumer-centric service excellence. 146 Kimberly Thomas-Francois, Ye Shen & Marion Joppe. 146
PART IV - Economic Resilience. 160
CHAPTER 10 - Increasing the Resilience of Micro, Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises to Tropical Cyclones in Small Island Developing States. 161
Thalia Balkaran and David Smith. 161
CHAPTER 11 - Building Resilience by Strengthening the Link between Tourism and Agriculture: An Assessment of the Purchasing Patterns of Selected Hotels and Guesthouses in Jamaica. 181
Tolulope Bewaji, Eritha Huntley Lewis, Clive Scott and Twila-Mae Logan. 181
CHAPTER 12 - Collaborative Tourism Entrepreneurship as a Community Resilience Strategy: A Case Study of Castara, Tobago. 195
Shinelle Smith and Leslie-Ann Jordan. 195
PART V - Contemporary Landscape & Reflections. 216
CHAPTER 13 - COVID-19 Policy Responses - The tension between lives and livelihoods in tourism dependent Caribbean territories. 217
Acolla Lewis-Cameron and Sherma Roberts. 217
CHAPTER 14 - Conclusion. 232 Sherma Roberts, Acolla Lewis-Cameron and Leslie-Ann Jordan. 232
INDEX 238
About the Author: Acolla Lewis-Cameron is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. She is the lead editor of Marketing Island Destinations: Concepts and Cases and co-author of Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concepts and Cases.
Leslie-Ann Jordan is a Senior Lecturer of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. She is the lead editor of "Sports Event Management: The Caribbean Experience". Her research interests include tourism development in small island developing states in the Caribbean, tourism planning and development and tourism policy and decision-making'
Sherma Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She has co-edited three books and co-authored Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concept and Cases
