Sustainable Development and Resilience of Tourism

This volume examines progress in sustainable and resilient development of niche forms of tourism from a health and wellbeing perspective. It also aims to offer deep and innovative insights on the supporting role of non-pharmaceutical interventions to enhance resilience and wellbeing of visited and visiting communities. A comparative and critical discourse of the role of hard medicine is also offered, from both a core and supplementary perspective, particularly, from eudaimonic and physiologically restorative standpoints. Furthermore, indigenous non-pharmaceutical interventions and spiritual healing mechanisms are discussed in the context of their potential to facilitate long term immunity and happiness. 

The book conceptually situates health as a fourth pillar of sustainability, and examines its role in stimulating long-lasting transformations rooted in positive psychology, inner transformation and sustainable consumption of organic productsand services. It designs an evolving transformational ‘Quality of Life’ paradigm that strengthens the foundations of health/wellbeing-based sustainable development initiatives and resilience of tourism systems. The work will be of interest to academic, professional, and various public and private stakeholders of tourism such as destination marketing organizations, policy makers, hospitality industries, tour operators, host communities, NGOs, and government agencies.

Dr. Deepak Chhabra, corresponding editor, teaches in the School of Community Resources and Development and holds the position of Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University, USA. Her research interests include authenticity and authentication of heritage; social and economic viability of different forms of tourism; wellness, and wellbeing through alternate healing/preventive therapeutic settings and programs. She has authored several books and published more than sixty articles in leading journals in the travel and tourism field. She serves on several advisory boards and is also currently serving as the ‘Section (Cultural Heritage and Authenticity in Tourism) Editor’ for the Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism journal.

Dr. Navin Atal is currently working as a senior consultant physician at Max Superspeciality hospital in Delhi (India) and specializes in Internal Medicine. He has special interest in Diabetes Mellitus and treats all types of Diabetic patients and diabetic complications.During and throughout the difficult first Covid wave he was responsible for managing Covid-19 infected diabetic patients admitted in the Pulmonology department at Max Superspeciality hospital. His areas of interest also include medicinal plants and bio enhancers derived from medicinal plants. He has treated numerous tuberculosis patients with bioenhanced antitubercular formulation since 2009, the year in which the formulation was released in the market. He has delivered a talk  as a guest speaker on bioenhancers at Vamscon 2016 (Vardhman Mahavir medical college) at Delhi, India. He has also published EDPA (East Delhi  physicians association) Medical journal for 4 years, and many articles for the EDPA medical journal.  He also holds the position of managing director of the Chand Kumar Atal Foundation and Atal Museum in Gurugram (NCR region of Delhi, India)

Dr. Alka Maheshwari is working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Travel and Tourism at Amity University (Noida, India). She holds a PhD in community-based tourism and her research areas of interest include community based tourism, tourism marketing, sustainable Tourism, tourism policy and planning, tourism products and services. She has published articles in numerous journals at the national and international level. She boasts over three decades of enriching experience in academia, including a distinguished 17-year tenure at South Delhi Polytechnic for Women, where she ascended from lecturer to the esteemed position of Head of the Department. During her remarkable journey, she also had the privilege of representing her institute at Lancashire University, Blackburn, as a team member for UKIERI.