Most of the contributors are scholars of the tourism business, but others include economists, geographers, and legal scholars. They cross research on sustainable tourism with research on islands to discuss ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable perspectives of island tourism. Among their topics are a difficult journey towards sustainable tourism for Fraser Island, the risk of climate change for tourism in the Maldives, casino development in St. Croix and Christmas Islands as an antithesis of socioculturally sustainable tourism, the Shetland Islands and sustainable tourism in high-latitude islands, the case of Okinawa, and a holistic approach to sustainable tourism transportation in Hawaii. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)