Sustainability is one of the most important issues currently facing the tourism sector. Recently the role of resilience thinking has been highlighted in sustainable development discussions as an alternative perspective. This book approaches these concepts as interwoven processes and looks at change through a socio-ecological lens.

Jarkko Saarinen is a Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor (Sustainability Management) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Alison M. Gill is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Geography and School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

Section I: Introduction 1. Resilient Destinations: Need for Governance Strategies in the Transition towards Sustainability Section II: Frameworks and Conceptualizations 2. Resilience theory and tourism 3. Governance and resilience: Evolving logics 4. Conceptualizing Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Tourism from an Indigenous Pacific Islands Perspective 5. Coevolution and resilient regions: Moving towards sustainable tourism development 6. The Mobilities Paradigm and Resilience in Sustainable Tourism Section III: Applications and Cases 7. Resilience and Climate Change 8. Natural Disaster, Vulnerability and Resilience: Lessons Learned from Kathmandu, Nepal 9. Building resilient and sustainable tourism destinations: Evidence from two Swiss mountain communities 10. Hosting the Nation: Rural Revitalization and Resilience through Ecotourism in Okinawa, Japan 11. Dynamics in tourism-landscape interactions in the public discourse: the case of Terschelling in the Wadden sea area 12. Refugee Flows and Tourist Mobility: Challenges to Destination Resilience Section IV: Conclusions: 13. Conclusions: A Way Ahead?