Tourism development after the crisis

摘要

In a time when crisis (if not recession) hits severely the life of the majority of the people in the globe, a book dealing with this draws attention immediately. Both professionals and academics are eager to find new insights into the current crisis, how to understand its complexity and how to manage it, and find ways out of it. The tourism industry and its agents are not an exception. As indicated in its introduction, tourism is particularly vulnerable to crises of all kinds. It is well known that cycles characterise the capitalist system, but apparently its ups and downs are more and more compressed in time, and more acute, as a result of the globalisation process and the lack of control on its many chaotic interrelations worldwide. So, learning to survive and thrive in an almost permanent crisis, in an era of endless change, seems wise.