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This theme issue aims to persuade practitioners and academics of the need to collaborate in support of sustainable development and to identify and implement solutions that enable sustainable tourism development in North Cyprus. The strategic question underlying this theme issue is as follows: transitioning from unsustainable to sustainable: what are the solutions for tourism industry stakeholders in North Cyprus?

The key outcomes of this issue as they relate to the strategic question are reviewed, with particular reference to the contributions made to knowledge, policy and practice as well as the implications for future applied research concerning sustainable tourism development in North Cyprus and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in general.

Arising from the analysis and synthesis of recommendations, the following themes were proposed as critical concentration points for transitioning from unsustainable to sustainable in the North Cyprus tourism industry: the importance of sustainable tourism indicators (STIs), sustainable development through good governance, engaging cooperatives in urban areas for sustainable development, cultural heritage as a driving force for sustainable development, transportation as a tool for accessible and sustainable tourism, contemporary trends in technology for sustainable development and other factors that could facilitate sustainable tourism development.

This article provides a narrative analysis of the findings and makes recommendations for consideration by politicians and tourist industry executives. The solutions include advancing sustainable tourism practices through technology and increasing policymakers' and tourism stakeholders' consciousness. This paper and the collection of articles on which it is based are the first to examine various academic and practitioner approaches to solutions that would help to address the challenges arising and then facilitate sustainable tourism in North Cyprus.

A good deal of research is currently being devoted to the question whether early malnutrition can play any part in reducing an individual's ultimate human achievement. In this context “achievement” means higher mental function, and “reducing” implies an attainment lower than was his original genetic potential.

No day passes in the United States without the invention of new kinds of adult education programmes, in which new subjects are taught to new audiences of American adults whose educational needs have been neglected. Moreover, the established programmes grow ever larger. These learning activities take such a profusion of forms that we are forced to use abstract terms such as ‘programmes’ or even ‘experiences’ to encompass them. The motives of the continuing learners, are equally diverse; they study almost any subject one could mention, from the minutely practical to the sublimely abstract. Even now, almost every significant agency and institution in American society is involved, somehow, in the provision of these programmes, since the formal education system, though ever more deeply involved in adult education, can never meet all the educational requirements of these millions of adults.

Campbell postulates that: first, the city as source area should be the focus of study in urban recreation research rather than the destination, which is more often selected by researchers; and that, second, concern should also focus on the spatial interaction of the city with the recreational area (Campbell, 1966, 87). He proposes a model to represent these concerns and in this he suggests that the type of movement pursued is related to the recreational experience desired and that the spatial distribution of the tourist industry is similarly associated.

Some will perhaps continue to dispute tourismology as a science but there is no doubt that it will find its full assertion in the near future.

When Mr Gordon Walker pointed out, in his stormy speech recently at Manchester University, that there was confusion as to the role of the polytechnics in higher education — he was no doubt right. Though by his answers he seemed as confused as anyone else as to the ways in which they might develop. On one thing he was adamant, the polytechnics would not be universities. Also, whatever else they would be rested on the cohesion of the constituent colleges and the skill of the local authority in managing them. Results from our previous surveys have shown this skill to be as variable as the general understanding of the polytechnic principle.

These days, all three sectors of education are the subject of controversy and activity. For further education it is the establishmemt of polytechnics, for secondary education it is comprehensive re‐organization and the raising of the school‐leaving age, in the primary sector it is educational priority areas and Plowden. The Liverpool authority is heavily engaged in all three.

The conventions, conferences, assemblies, meetings and transient trade shows of voluntary membership organizations may be grouped together under the general heading of “conventions”. Conventions have been growing in number and size throughout the world as the necessity of the interchange of information and specialized knowledge increases. In the professional, academic, and business fields, the mutual benefits obtained through personal contacts, the main reason for holding conventions, foster expanding attendance. Continuing improvements in the ease and efficiency of communications and transportation have been instrumental in facilitating more national and international conventions. It is as though the growing usage of electronic means of communications have stimulated rather than replaced face‐to‐face exchanges of ideas and of data.