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How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible tourism encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee-cultivating communities in Nicaragua, providing a conceptual tool to facilitate reflection on alternative ways of doing togetherness between ourselves.

Positive Tourism in Africa provides a crucial counter-narrative to the prevailing colonial and reductionist perspective on Africäs tourism trajectory and future. It offers a uniquely optimistic outlook for tourism in Africa whilst acknowledging the many challenges that African countries continue to grapple with.

Tourism and Hospitality in Conflict-ridden Destinations provides insight into the various types of current and post-conflict destinations worldwide and the steps that might be taken to transform them into future tourist destinations.

Sustainable Tourism Practices in the Mediterranean showcases and examines the current and future trends in sustainable tourism in this popular region where tourism is one of the leading determinants of economic development.

Overtourism explores this growing tourism phenomenon which is currently creating tensions in tourist destinations worldwide. This volume proposes a framework for possible solutions and management strategies for dealing with 'overtourism' and the various negative impacts that large quantities of tourists can impose.

This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of place.

This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world, addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices.