Collaboration and Cultural Consent: Refocusing Sustainable Tourism

Robinson, Mike

doi:10.1080/09669589908667345

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“…Stakeholder theory has also been used to illustrate the cross-sectional and integrated approach required in tourism destination planning (Bramwell and Sharman 1999;Costa 2001;Roberts and Simpson 2000;Robinson 1999;Sadler 2004;Timur and Getz 2002;von Friedrichs Grangsjo 2003}. Freeman's (1984 stakeholder theory suggests that an organization is characterized by its relationships with various groups and individuals, including employees, customers, suppliers, governments and members of the community.…”

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Stakeholder Participation in Tourism Destination Planning Another Case of Missing the Point?

Ruhanen¹

2009

Tourism Recreation Research

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A legacy of adverse impacts from tourism activity has led to widespread, and generally well accepted, calls for multiple stakeholder groups, in particular the resident community, to participate in the process of planning tourism activity within a destination. While this notion has infiltrated the rhetoric of governments' worldwide, authors have questioned the extent to which stakeholder participation actually occurs in tourism destination planning practice. Indeed, some authors have claimed that despite the abundance of policy statements and documents endorsing the approach, such examples are still the exception rather than the rule. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate whether multiple stakeholder groups do actually participate in the tourism destination planning processes and determine the underlying motives, benefits and challenges of stakeholder cooperation and collaboration in this context. Focusing on the planning practices of local tourism destinations in Queensland, Australia, it was found that the resident community are often excluded from the planning process and, where they are involved, it is because of planning mandates as opposed to genuine motivations to engage in cooperative and collaborative planning. Additionally, the study found that some stakeholder groups have considerably more power than others and use this influence to limit the involvement of the resident community to token engagement. The research highlights that destination planners and managers continue to 'miss the point' regarding the need for, and benefits of, engaging multiple stakeholder groups in the planning process.

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Stakeholder Participation in Tourism Destination Planning Another Case of Missing the Point?

Ruhanen¹

2009

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…This is again a social goal or outcome, where the partnership can help to bridge social divides (Robinson, 1999;Fuller, Buultjens and Cummings, 2005;Mburu and Birner, 2007) or 'encourages greater respect for local communities and traditional and indigenous peoples' (Phillips, 2003: 21), a hallmark of the paradigm shift in protected area management towards shared governance and use of local knowledge, identified earlier in this paper. SC theory also covers the building of shared norms, values and attitudes of a community (Falk and Kilpatrick, 2000 Now that the most important features and outcomes of partnerships associated with protected areas have been identified, the next section focuses on determining which theories were prominent in explaining partnership success, as well as the broader concern of progressing postdisciplinary research approaches for tourism / protected area partnerships.…”

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Advancing conceptual understanding of partnerships between protected area agencies and the tourism industry: a postdisciplinary and multi-theoretical approach

Laing

Lee

Moore

et al. 2009

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…He has identified access to natural resources for tourism purposes as an issue linked to social equity in sustainable development, a socio-cultural benefit and form of empowerment. The potentially divisive nature of ecotourism development certain social groups are identified to be included and excluded has received much attention (Brennan and Allen 2001;Gray 2007;Robinson 1999;Sproule 1996). These ideas tend to focus on divisions and tensions that exist within and between local communities rather than considering the ways in which defined roles exist which are often not only accepted by community members but also help communities to function (Mbwaia 2005).…”

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Societal values and local responses to appropriate livelihoods, fairness and decisionmaking involvement in ecotourism: Chiang Rai, Thailand

Palmer¹,

Chuamuangphan²

2017

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This paper examines local responses to ecotourism within the broader context of societal values. It acknowledges a strong contextual dimension to understanding those responses, and supports that with in-depth research on three villages in Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. The paper finds that land ownership is a central issue: those without land are those who consider alternative livelihoods to agriculture. Tourism, rather than a development option denied to under-privileged or unconnected members of society, appears to be a key development option for those without land. An uncontested view was expressed that benefits from tourism should be individually received by those involved rather by the community. Involvement in tourism decision-making was low and only desired by those directly involved, as a means of potentially increasing their personal incomes. For those stakeholders, involvement is dependent on village leaders and the representation that local tourism entrepreneurs and workers have through those leaders (based on shared ethnicity). These findings question an understanding within the tourism development literature that situates host communities as empowered through tourism, and adds to increasing criticism of aspects of community--based tourism.

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Collaboration and Cultural Consent: Refocusing Sustainable Tourism

Cited by 78 publications

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Stakeholder Participation in Tourism Destination Planning Another Case of Missing the Point?

Stakeholder Participation in Tourism Destination Planning Another Case of Missing the Point?

Advancing conceptual understanding of partnerships between protected area agencies and the tourism industry: a postdisciplinary and multi-theoretical approach

Societal values and local responses to appropriate livelihoods, fairness and decisionmaking involvement in ecotourism: Chiang Rai, Thailand

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