The BIG Picture Flashcards
Policy Planning
Policy - creates vision for the future - with guidelines
Planning - practice to getting to goal (action)
Together - process to envision and achieve goals for future
Goals of Planning
Max benefits to stakeholders
Min negative impacts
Evolution of Tourism Planning
Pioneer modern tourism Planning - Hawaii (1950s) - set stage for WTO and major destinations (1960s)
Tourism Planning research (1970s) - WTO, Clare Gunn …
Expansion (1980s) - Interdisciplinary: leisure, entertainment, and resort planning
Ecological tourism planning - sustainability (1990s)
Broad Approaches to Planning
- Boosterism
- Econ, industry-oriented
- Physical/spatial
- Community-oriented
- Sustainable tourism
Boosterism
- Tourism development is good
- Tourism should be developed at all costs
- Dominant tradition towards tourism planning and development since mass tourism
Econ Tradition - tourism as an industry
- tool for Econ develop
- creates job
- expert industry
Physical/Spatial Approach
based on:
- work of geogr, land use planners
- capacities
- early form of Envior protect
- min impacts by manipulating patterns
Community-Oriented Tourism Planning
- emerged to address neg. impacts
- Framework to give benefit to both sides (local and vist)
- local control over tour develop
Sustainable Tour Approach
- longer term ‘holistic’ lens
- coordination/inputs across sectors/stakeholders
- raising consumer/product aware
- industry coordination mechanism
- increased regulation
Triple Bottom Line
a sustainable approach where profit, people and planet meet equally
Goals of Toursim Planning
- enhanced vist satisfaction
- improved Econ/business success
- Sustainable resource use
- Community integration
Tourism Production Function
- Primary input - resources
- Intermediate inputs - facilites
- Intermediate outputs - services
- Final outputs - experiences
Tourism Planning scales
International
Regional
Destination
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