Politics and sustainable tourism: The case of Cyprus

Farmaki, Anna; Altınay, Levent; Botterill, D.; Hilke, Sarina

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2014.09.019

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“…The cross-border governance literature has emphasized the need to assess complex multi-scalar relations in cross-border regionalization processes (e.g. Jakola, 2016;Johnson, 2009), and tourism planning research stresses territorial and scalar contestations in destination management (e.g., Farmaki et al, 2015;Stoffelen & Vanneste, 2016). Studies on tourism development in cross-border contexts lag behind in this respect.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yet, tourism planning scholars have widely acknowledged that destination-level governance is highly politicized and involves power relations among different stakeholders, who aim at shaping the tourism system in their favour. They have shown that the distribution and use of power is key toward understanding the development direction of tourism in destinations and for deducing who profits from these processes (Farmaki, Altinay, Botterill, & Hilke, 2015). Intrinsic contestations between tourism stakeholders, resulting from the composite and global-local characteristics of the present-day tourism sector, may limit the success of destination governance in reaching intended regional development outcomes (Farmaki, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands

Stoffelen

İoannides

Vanneste

2017

Annals of Tourism Research

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This paper aims to identify distinctive obstacles to the establishment of tourism destination governance in both transnational and within-country borderlands. Analysis of the German-Czech borderlands, a region also incorporating within-country borders between three German federal states, indicates the multi-scalar and political contestations of cross-border tourism collaboration. Local tourism projects are generally successful, both on a transnational German-Czech level and between the German states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. However, structural cross-border destination management does not exist because of (transnational) multi-scalar institutional alignment problems and (internal) tourism-specific destination-level power contestations. Understanding destination management processes in borderlands, therefore, requires: (i) explicit multi-scalar analysis; (ii) recognition of both transnational and within-country contexts; (iii) more cross-pollination between tourism planning and cross-border governance research.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands

Stoffelen

İoannides

Vanneste

2017

Annals of Tourism Research

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“…Such an effort was undertaken to determine more sustainable and suitable hotel scales for the existing conditions of Northern Cyprus. Such an area faces various problems of limited natural resources from the environmental point of view, limited employment opportunities for local people, high costs of investment and construction [12,15]; high rate of energy and water consumption in the hotel sector [81]; lack of economic responsibility, lack of construction skills and skilled hotel sector personnel.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite undergoing numerous land disputes over the last half century, in the 1980s, the Mediterranean destination began to focus efforts on tourism as a primary means for economic growth (see Figure 1) [15]. Northern Cyprus attracts various types of visitors, including traditional family travellers on holidays, young adults in search of advanced degrees at colleges and universities, and skilled labourers in pursuit of employment.…”

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Developing a Model for Sustainable Hotels in Northern Cyprus

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Abstract:The purpose of this work is to develop a sustainable hotel building model (SHBM) that will allow for the measurement of sustainability in determining what conditions are most ideal for hotels in Northern Cyprus. This research method is based on the synthesis of international sustainable building assessment criteria from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and the localization of these criteria in Northern Cyprus. Thus, this article proposes an SHBM, which is especially localized for Northern Cyprus that can be used for new hotel buildings' design and construction and renovations of existing buildings as well as to measure their sustainability regarding environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects. To serve this purpose, various methods of measurement of sustainability and green certificates (both qualitative and quantitative), global in scale were studied, which provided the basis for the development of the SHBM and local conditions of Northern Cyprus. Six hotels of differing sizes were studied in order to understand localized situation, conditions and priorities. The results of this study suggest that to have a more sustainable hotel in the aimed context, hotels of different scales (based on bed capacity and classification) must be evaluated adopting the SHBM model to achieve a better result for the sustainability of large-scale as well as small-scale hotels. In addition, this model helps the tourism industry and the hotel sector of Northern Cyprus benefit from sustainability in terms of environmental, economic and sociocultural aspects, which consequently help the local community in several ways.

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“…Within the CBT literature, power relations have been discussed extensively (Farmaki, Altinay, Botterill, & Hilke, 2015;Hall, 2003;Hampton, 2005;Hampton & Jeyacheya, 2015;Kayat, 2008; T. J. Lee et al, 2010;Mgonja et al, 2015;Nunkoo, 2015;Nunkoo & Ramkissoon, 2010Reed, 1997;Salazar, 2011;M.…”

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confidence: 99%

Conflict management within the context of community based tourism: an exploratory study

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Community based tourism (CBT) as a concept offers a multitude of opportunities and benefits; however, there are numerous challenges in achieving such positive outcomes in real world communities.While conducting the review of the literature, the term 'conflict' emerged as a concept that could be used to describe many of the challenges occurring within CBT and the term 'conflict management' was recognised as the process responsible for positive or negative outcomes during the CBT process. The research gap became evident through the realisation that conflict and conflict management had not been specifically studied within the CBT context.To address the research gap, the purpose of this study was developed: to explore conflict and its management during CBT initiatives. To initiate this process, a model of conflict management was developed after reviewing both the CBT and conflict management literature.As a result, an original contribution towards understanding conflict management was developed, which was presented as a linear model.The conceptualisation of the linear model involved an 'instance' of conflict occurring, followed by a 'response' to the conflict, which then initiated an 'impact' on the CBT project. To determine if this logic was appropriate, a systematic review of the CBT literature was then conducted to assess the context of these three CBT-related concepts. This review determined the linear model to be a logical progression and also distinguished which CBT related concepts were most frequently mentioned as being 'instances', 'responses', and 'impacts'.The five research objectives developed for this study were 1) to explore instances of conflict that occur within CBT initiatives; 2) to investigate the conflict management techniques used to respond to the identified conflict; 3) to explore how the response to the conflict impacted the CBT initiative; 4) to determine whether the proposed model of 'instances', 'responses', and 'impacts' provides an initial understanding of the 'conflict theme' components that can be identified when addressing conflict management during CBT; and 5) to consider how the investigation of 'instances', 'responses', and 'impacts' of conflict in CBT can inform future projects to increase the likelihood of success. Page | iiTwo stages of the exploratory research design were undertaken to attain qualitative data from CBT examples across the globe from representatives of four CBT stakeholder groups affiliated with CBT development: community, government, non-governmental organisations, and private enterprise. The first stage was an online survey, which investigated the conflict themes of 'instances', 'responses', and 'impacts' across the four stakeholder groups. The respondents were invited to participate in the second stage and the results were used to inform and develop the Stage 2 interview guide. During the Stage 2 interviews, the Constant Comparative Method (CCM) was used to acquire a dataset that constantly grew in detail and richness due to the evolution of the intervi...

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Politics and sustainable tourism: The case of Cyprus

Cited by 104 publications

References 78 publications

Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands

Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands

Developing a Model for Sustainable Hotels in Northern Cyprus

Conflict management within the context of community based tourism: an exploratory study

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