Emergence of governance in cross-border destinations

Blasco, Dani; Guía, Jaume; Prats, Lluís Batlle i

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2014.09.002

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“…This finding conforms with the scientific literature (Blasco et al, 2014;Church & Reid, 1999). Of particular note has been the surge of cross-border trails; at least 11 waymarked transnational and interstate routes exist now in the study area.…”

Section: Transnational and Within-country Cross-border Tourism Projectssupporting

confidence: 77%

“…Within the general transnational governance literature, tourism regularly features as a prominent political strategy in European cross-border development plans and a major source of transnational municipal project work in Euroregions (Blasco et al, 2014;Church & Reid, 1999;. However, using tourism as a strategy to increase regional competitiveness requires integration of the sector and its stakeholders in regional socioeconomic and political contexts, something that is complicated (Stoffelen & Vanneste, 2016).…”

Section: Scalar Power Relations In Tourism Destination Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through inclusive and participative stakeholder contact, governance processes could empower all tourism-related stakeholders so that the positive and negative impacts of tourism development are socially and spatially balanced throughout the destination (Stoffelen & Vanneste, 2016). However, previous research in cross-border settings has indicated that the creation of tourism governance structures has generally been unsuccessful (Blasco et al, 2014) with potentially adverse effects. Absence of participative cross-border cooperation leads to growing competition between neighbouring areas, duplication of efforts in marketing or infrastructure development, and faltering regional innovation due to weak knowledge transfer (Ilbery & Saxena, 2011;Ioannides, Nielsen, & Billing, 2006;Weidenfeld, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Observers have established that structural governance and planning processes are fundamental when utilizing tourism to achieve regional development aims in such areas (Blasco, Guia, & Prats, 2014). Through inclusive and participative stakeholder contact, governance processes could empower all tourism-related stakeholders so that the positive and negative impacts of tourism development are socially and spatially balanced throughout the destination (Stoffelen & Vanneste, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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: Transnational and Within-country Cross-border Tourism Projectssupporting

confidence: 77%

Section: Scalar Power Relations In Tourism Destination Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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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“…The link between clustering, as presented in this paper on the example of the East and Central European countries' tourism industry at the NUTS 2 level, and tourism sustainability can be explained via serendipity [63][64][65]. According to Hom Cary [66] "serendipity in tourism is the effect by which one accidentally stumbles upon something fortunate, especially while looking for something entirely unrelated".…”

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Regional Tourism Clustering Based on the Three Ps of the Sustainability Services Marketing Matrix: An Example of Central and Eastern European Countries

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The impact of tourism on quality of life standards in regions is significant in terms of people, planet, and profit. This paper examines the subnational NUTS 2 level regions, (in line with Eurostat) by applying several interlinked and connected indicators. Adopting the three Ps (people, planet, profit) of the Sustainability Services Marketing Mix, this article discusses the fusion of 54 regions of Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Romania, and Bulgaria) into clusters according to the selected accommodation tourism indicators used by the European Statistical Agency (Eurostat) to evaluate tourism. Since many variables of the Prague region significantly exceed the values of the remaining regions, this region has been considered as an individual cluster, excluded from the cluster analysis. The cluster analysis resulted in the definition of six clusters consisting of regions with similar indicators’ statistics characteristics. The presented approach changes the traditional approach to clusters in tourism and provokes thinking about new criteria of clustering and solutions in the field of tourism, especially when considering future cooperation, competitiveness, and sustainable development.

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Borders, (Protected Area) Tourism and Prejudices: Theoretical and Conceptual Insights

Mayer¹,

Zbaraszewski

Pieńkowski

et al. 2019

Cross-Border Tourism in Protected Areas

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Emergence of governance in cross-border destinations

Cited by 72 publications

References 40 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

Regional Tourism Clustering Based on the Three Ps of the Sustainability Services Marketing Matrix: An Example of Central and Eastern European Countries

Borders, (Protected Area) Tourism and Prejudices: Theoretical and Conceptual Insights

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