Tourist Destination Governance : Practice, Theory and Issues / edited by Eric Laws ... [et al.].
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Wallingford : CAB International, c2011.Description: xiv, 222 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781845937942 (hbk.)
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Forward 1. Tourist Destination Governance: Practice, Theory and Issues
Part I 2. Tourist destination governance challenges and concerns: Questions of development, community involovement, responsiveness and future outcomes 3. Governance approaches in new tourist destination countries: Introducing tourism law in Cambodia, laos and vietnam 4. Tourism is St andrews: Conflicting governance in the mecca of golf 5. Issues and pressures on achieving effective community destination governance: A typology 6. The role of knowledge in good governance for tourism
Part II 7. Tourist destination governance decision making: complexity, dynamics and influences 8. Responding to crises in thailand: A governance analysis 9. Controversial ecotourism and stakeholder roles in governance: 'swim with humpback whales' in vava'u 10. Community empowered tourism development
Part III 11. Tourist destination governance approaches and solutions: structural change, community engagement, networks and collaborations 12. Structural change and Re-engineering in tourism: A chance for destination governance in grisons, switzerland? 13. Design of tourism governance networks 14. A stakeholder approach for sustainable community-based rural tourism development in thailand 15. Dynamics of destination governance: Governance and metagovernance in the composite industrial environment of destinations 16. Tourist destination governance: Some approaches and suggestions for future research
Managing and co-ordinating tourism in a destination requires the organisation and co-operation of a large number of sectors, businesses, local authorities and individuals. Since tourism is an important driver in many economies, destination governance in tourist destinations needs to be done well, to achieve economic aims and maintain sufficient infrastructure. This book provides a guide to the theoretical and methodological understanding of how to implement best practice governance procedures, with case studies illustrating good performance. It is suitable for researchers and students in touri.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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