Stories of Practice: Tourism Policy and Planning

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Dianne Dredge, John Jenkins
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011 - Business & Economics - 379 pages
Illustrated with a set of cohesive, theoretically informed case studies of tourism planning and policy-making from around the world, this volume expands readers' practical knowledge about how tourism planning and policy making takes place.
 

Contents

Historical Development
13
Stories of Practice
37
Tourism Planning Community Engagement and Policy Innovation
79
The Controversy Over Southern
105
Neoliberal Urban Entrepreneurial Agendas Dunedin Stadium and
133
Enlightening the Process of Branding and Place
173
Converging Forces Contesting
199
A Participatory Approach to Planning Using Geographic
227
How the Use of Power Impacts on the Relationship between
295
The Introduction of Tourism Destination Management Organisations
311
Why Cluster? Text and Subtext in the Engagement of Tourism
335
Conclusions
359
Index
369
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John Major Jenkins is an independent researcher on ancient Mesoamerican cosmology who has worked with the highland Tzutujil and Quiche Maya communities. He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.

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