Island Tourism: Sustainable Perspectives

摘要

In the preface, Carlsen and Butler acknowledge that "[t]here is already a significant body of knowledge of sustainable island tourism development presented in previous books" because "islands form perfect 'living laboratories' that enable researchers to isolate the causal and immediate effects of tourism development on the community, environment, and economy of islands and to study them at a level of detail that is not possible in other tourism destinations" (p. xii).