Collaboration in local tourism policymaking

The politics of tourism development: a case of dual governance in Tobago

“…Generally, the tourism industry seems to be in an environment that does not allow for proper policy formulation and action, an issue addressed by several authors (Hall, 1994;Jenkins, 2003a, 2003b;Kerr, 2003). Evidently, tourism policy is not well formulated (Edgell, 1999;Bramwell and Sharman, 1999) in a framework of dual governance and as a result, tourism development in Tobago has not been to its fullest potential. In other words, tourism in Tobago has not been on a smooth path of development early in its life cycle (Butler, 1980).…”

“…The complexity of interests has resulted in a search for clarity on issues relating to tourism public policy. Nonetheless, tourism development is the result of a framework of tourism policies formulated through stakeholder buy-in (Edgell, 1999;Bramwell and Sharman, 1999;Sautter and Leisen, 1999). The role of government is critical in managing the public policy process.…”

“…Based on the complexity of interests in the policy process and the need for governmental control, it is understood that the institutional framework to formulate and implement tourism policy is a significant part of the tourism development process. It is perhaps the complexity of the policy process that has resulted in the emergence of local collaborative policymaking (Bramwell and Sharman, 1999). In addition, another level of government is sometimes necessary when national government does not allocate more of the scarce resources to a particular locality (Richter, 1985).…”

Research on Information System Applied to Regional Tourism Development for Evolution Process

“…Tourism economic main bodies from different regions of the area re-configure and combine resources according to the constitution, agreement, or contract, in order to maximize the overall efficiency (economic, social, and ecological benefits).During the course, the flow of information from the cooperative region both inside and outside is collected, collated, analyzed, stored, transmitted, fed back, and tracked. From the content point of view, the online information system is based on the Intranet (regional tourism cooperation intranet) as information infrastructure architecture aimed for wide information sharing (isomorphism and heterogeneous), data warehouse is used for data organization and processing [1]. It emphasizes on data mining and multidimensional data analysis, provides the ways and means to retrieve information from Intranet and Internet, and then supplies important basis and projects for decision-making, and to achieve a comprehensive grasp of the regional tourism cooperation.…”

Community understanding of the impact of temporary visitors on incidental destinations

“…In this context, ''active involvement'' implies that local citizens will participate in the process of opportunity identification and evaluation (Sautter & Leisen, 1999), the design of an overarching policy and strategy (Bramwell & Sharman, 1999), the operational monitoring of visitor industry activities (Hardy & Beeton, 2001), and the mitigation of any negative outcomes that arise (Choi & Sirakaya, 2006). Indeed, there are a significant number of instances in which this process has been at least superficially undertaken, and a catalogue of common benefits and costs has emerged as a result (Zhang, Inbakaran, & Jackson, 2006).…”