Cases in Sustainable Tourism: An Experiential Approach to Making Decisions (Hospitality, Travel and Tourism) (Hospitality, Travel and Tourism)

"Cases in Sustainable Tourism" is a groundbreaking teaching tool that places students in real-life situations where they are faced with complex decisions on the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of actual cases from the tourism and hospitality industry. Cases are based on actual organisations or activities and accompanied by resource guides, illustrations, exhibits, multi-media materials, and photographs to help students make difficult but realistic decisions about travelling responsibilities (accommodations and airlines), adventure tourism, the sustainability of national parks, and land development and governance. This unique casebook includes an extensive "Instructor's Manual" with additional teaching materials on an accompanying CD. Each of the 15 cases is based on a real-life incident, and flexible enough to present students with a variety of challenges that organisations face. Scenarios range from the state of the whale-watching industry in the Pacific Northwest to the conflict that arises when a banana plantation owner wants to expand onto land adjacent to a national park in Costa Rica to how a backwoods lodge in the Canadian Rockies addresses its responsibility to the environment. With a little imagination, all 15 cases can be applied to local situations or organisations and embellished with field trips, newspaper articles, and local speakers to turn a classroom project into a real-life experience. Cases were written from a management perspective, but are easily adapted for use with graduate and undergraduate courses in business management, environmental design, environmental science, geography, and planning. "Cases in Sustainable Tourism" will prepare students to become "problem solvers" when faced with real-life decisions in the hospitality and tourism industry. The book is equally valuable as a training tool for professional development programs offered by corporations, professional associations, and park personnel.