This book deals with how tourism can change behaviour and have a positive impact. It focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, and environmental threats. It also identifies tourism types that can transform humans, such as educational and volunteer tourism.

Contributions by: Gregory J Ashworth, Mark Kanning, Sagar Singh, Bianca Freire Medeiros, Ignacio de las Cuevas, Melanie Smith, Anya Diekmann, Michael Ireland, Isaac Rami, Omar Moufakkir, Stephen Wearing, Adrian Deville, Eric Brymer, Keith Hollinshead