The vast majority of academic research of coastal tourism resort management has been undertaken in northern and southern Europe at the expense of a wider global consideration. This book aims to address this deficit and develop a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal resorts.

The vast majority of academic research of coastal tourism resort management has been undertaken in northern and southern Europe at the expense of a wider global consideration. This book aims to address this deficit and develop a global perspective on the management issues facing coastal resorts. By drawing on examples, it incorporates a detailed analysis of a range of economic, socio-cultural, political and environmental issues that are being experienced, to differing extents, by coastal tourism resorts which are at different life-cycle stages of development.The major management themes highlighted include the processes of restructuring, attempts to develop sustainable agendas and environmental issues of developing resorts in sensitive areas. Written by key experts, this book provides a critical assessment of the key management issues facing coastal tourism resorts globally. In doing so, it represents more than a mere amalgamation of existing literature as it aims to advance conceptual understanding of resort evolution and change.

1 Introduction: The Development and Management of Coastal Resorts
Section 1: Coastal Resorts in Transition
2 The Problems and Dilemmas of Northern European Post-Mature Coastal Tourism Resorts
3 The Resort Economy
4 Institutional Change and Resort Capacity
Section 2: The Diversification and Sustainable Development of Coastal Resorts
5 Complexity, Interdisciplinarity and Growth Management
6 Planning for Sustainable Development in Spanish Coastal Resorts
7 Sustainable Resort Development in Cyprus and Tennerife
Section 3: The Pleasure-Periphery and Managing the Post-Modern Coastal Resort
8 The Post-modern Resort and the Pleasure Periphery
9 Coastal Resort Development and its Consequences
10 Natural Heritage as Place Identity
Section 4: Coastal Resort Structures: Variation Versus Standardisation
11 The Development of South Africa's Coastal Tourism Resorts
12 Resort Structure and 'Plantation' Dynamics in Antigua and Coastal South Carolina
13 Re-Engineering Coastal Resorts in Mexico
Section 5: State Intervention and the Planning and Development of Coastal Resorts
14 The Role of the State and the Rise of the Red Sea Resorts in Egypt and Israel
15 Implications for Tourism Development in the Declining Coastal Resort of Kusadasi, Turkey
16 Conclusion: Future Implications for the Development and Management of Coastal Resorts.