Part 1: Foundations. Chapter 1: Sustainable Tourism in an Emerging World of Complexity and Turbulence -- Chapter 2: The Changing Meanings of Sustainable Tourism -- Chapter 3: Tourism, Development, and Sustainability -- Part 2: Frameworks -- Chapter 4: Frameworks for Tourism as a Development Strategy -- Chapter 5: Strategic Community Participation in Sustainable Tourism -- Chapter 6: Framework for Understanding Sustainability in the Context of Tourism Operators -- Chapter 7: Frameworks for Managing Tourism in Protected Areas -- Part 3: Case Studies -- Chapter 8: When dem come: Political Ecology of Sustainable Tourism in Cockpit County, Jamaica -- Chapter 9: Understanding the Himalayan Townscape of Shimla through Resident and Tourist Perception -- Chapter 10: Community-based Tourism and Development in the Periphery/ Semi-periphery Interface: A Case Study from Viet Nam -- Chapter 11: The Concept of Environmental Supply in National Parks -- Chapter 12: Sustainable Tourism in Brazil: Faxinal and Superagui Case Studies -- Chapter 13: Tourism Development as Building Social Capital -- Part 4: Conclusion -- Chapter 14: The Way Forward.

This book examines the need for a new way of describing sustainable tourism and also looks at the frameworks needed to rethink how to apply this to communities, private operators and protected area managers. It makes it clear that tourism is just one of many human activities that affects host communities. The work includes informative and provocative case studies with realistic applications. References included in the book will help graduate students formulate new hypotheses and suggest literature for them. Tools and techniques useful to tourism practitioners suggest innovative approaches to marketing, management and community development.