Tourism collaboration and partnership : politics, practice and sustainability / edited by Bill Bramwell and Bernard Lane.

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This book explores the concept, techniques and implications of establishing stakeholder collaboration in sustainable tourism. The importance of involving a wide range of stakeholders in tourism planning and management is increasingly recognised. This reflects a move to less top-down, more decentralised and more inclusive forms of governance in tourism and in other policy fields. Twenty-two leading researchers and practitioners from around the world contribute their views and expertise to this pioneering volume. Case studies examining key issues are drawn from Europe, North and South America, Australia and the Arctic. Section 1 examines the processes, patterns and typologies involved. Specific concerns addressed include stakeholder interaction and negotiation, boundary issues in regional and international partnerships and stages of collaborative development. Section 2 evaluates the effects of politics and power on the practice of collaboration. Specific topics here include the changing roles of the state in tourism governance, regime theory and tourism, the public sector and partnership development and partnerships in a post socialist context. Section 3 looks at emerging thinking and approaches, sums up key issues affecting collaborative tourism planning and suggests future research directions. The book will be invaluable for final year undergraduate tourism students, for postgraduate students in tourism, environmental studies or planning and of interest to tourism planners, managers and consultants.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Collaboration and Partnerships in Tourism Planning
• 2 Cross-Border Partnership in Tourism Resource Management: International Parks along the US-Canada Border
• 3 Interest Based Formulation of Tourism Policy for Environmentally Sensitive Destinations
• 4 Collaboration on Tourism Policy Making: Environmental and Commercial Sustainability on Bonaire, NA
• 5 The World Wide Fund for Nature Arctic Tourism Project
• 6 An Australian Research Partnership Between Industry, Universities and Government: The Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism
• 7 Developing a Typology of Sustainable Tourism Partnerships
• 8 Rethinking Collaboration and Partnership: A Public Policy Perspective
• 9 Community Roundtables for Tourism-related Conflicts: The Dialectics of Consensus and Process Structures
• 10 Tourism Development Regimes in the Inner City Fringe: The Case of Discover Islington, London
• 11 Is There a Tourism Partnership Life Cycle?
• 12 Developing Partnership Approaches to Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe
• 13 Collaborative Tourism Planning as Adaptive Experiments in Emergent Tourism Settings
• 14 Stakeholder Assessment and Collaborative Tourism Planning: The Case of Brazil's Costa Dourada Project
• 15 Collaboration and Cultural Consent: Refocusing Sustainable Tourism
• 16 An Evolutionary Interpretation of the Role of Collaborative Partnerships in Sustainable Tourism
• 17 Collaborative Tourism Planning: Issues and Future Directions