Global City Frontiers: Singapore's Hinterland and the Contested Socio‐political Geographies of Bintan, Indonesia

Bunnell, Tim; Muzaini, Hamzah; Sidaway, James D.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00647.x

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“…A pattern could be discerned where Balinese businesses appeared normally to be SMEs owned by local entrepreneurs, with larger companies being owned by foreigners or Jakarta conglomerates. This reinforces findings from other studies (Hitchcock and Darma Putra, 2007;Bunnell et al, 2012). …”

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Destination competitiveness: evidence from Bali

Chin

Haddock‐Fraser

Hampton

2015

Current Issues in Tourism

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Within the dynamic global tourism industry, understanding the reasons for a destination's competitiveness is essential in order to enhance its performance, facilitate more effective destination management, and inform its overall sustainable economic development. This paper applies Kim and Wicks' (2010) tourism cluster development model to Bali -a small, mature destination in the developing economy of Indonesia. It demonstrates that there are complex relationships between: (i) cluster actors; (ii) barriers preventing effective networking; and (iii) the significance of these interactions for the local host community. This paper contributes to the debate by addressing new and different attributes and actors such as transnational corporations (TNCs), universities, and the concept of co-opetition, as being significant attributes in Kim and Wicks' initial model. Through a qualitative approach involving n=23 semi-structured interviews, 2 this paper illustrates intricate issues and relationships that are identified in Bali, a small mature destination. Purposive sampling methods were employed to generate a range of key stakeholders who informed our understanding of 'cluster actors' in Kim and Wicks' terms. The systematic examination of these key tourism elements provides a detailed analysis of the destination's strengths and weaknesses, and a more nuanced understanding of what facilitates a destination's competitive position.Key words: destination competitiveness; cluster theory; impacts; island tourism; Indonesia As part of this, we explore the elements within Porter's Diamond (reformulated by Kim and Wicks); the relationship of cluster actors ( Figure 1); and how such factors affect the competitiveness of a small developing destination. This analysis illustrates complex relationships and linkages between cluster actors; barriers preventing effective networks; and highlights the significance of those interactions, which leads to wider understanding of the socioeconomic implications for the host community. Our analysis enables tourism policymakers to develop a more comprehensive understanding to enable strategic planning; helps identify destination strengths and weaknesses; as well as identification of barriers to progress.The paper is divided into six sections. First, we explore and critique the key literature relating to competitiveness models, rationalising the application of the Kim and Wicks (2010) model for this research. Second, a description of tourism in Bali is presented, followed by the methodology and research approach used. The main findings are analysed, highlighting destination competitiveness issues specifically for Bali, followed by a discussion. The paper concludes noting how this framework provides academics and policymakers with a useable tool to understand certain complexity, destination dynamics, and main actors. Literature Review of Competitiveness modelsMost academic work on destination competitiveness models (Dwyer and

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Section: The Arrival Of Tncssupporting

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Destination competitiveness: evidence from Bali

Chin

Haddock‐Fraser

Hampton

2015

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…Moral geographies describe a thrust of research that understands moral ordering as a spatial practice embedded in uneven power relations (Driver 1988;Law 1994;Sack 1997;Smith 2000;Cutchin 2002;Bauman 2004). In the polarized debates about the positive or negative impacts of economic globalization as a form of moral ordering (Sen 1999;Kaplinsky 2000;Stiglitz 2003), it is easy to lose sight of the fact that actual human experiences of such ordering rarely fit into dichotomies like 'positive' or 'negative', 'good' or 'bad' (Cresswell 1996;Chavez 2004;Lindquist 2004;Bunnell et al 2006). Mapping the international trade in ewaste suggests the complex moral geographies through which broader societal orderings of 'justice' and 'inclusion' aspire to be achieved yet which in practice constitute geographies of waste and value that tend to reinforce existing patterns of exclusion, insecurity and marginalization.…”

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Mapping international flows of electronic waste

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Mcnabb

2010

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…Singaporean visitors at the resort enjoy Singaporean and international food, all priced in Singapore dollars, often imagining the resort "as an extension of 'home'" (Bunnell et al 2006b, p. 11;see also Ng 2014). 5 The architecture of hotels, marinas and residences also spot a panAsian resort look, devoid of cultural referents to Bintan and the Riau province, and in some cases even Indonesia (Bunnell et al 2006b). As a Singaporean tourist remarked, the look and feel "could be 'anywhere' and perhaps even 'in Singapore'" (cited in Ford and Lyon 2006, p. 266;see Lindquist 2010, p. 45 for a comment on the similarity of Batam island's industrial park to Singapore).…”

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Tourism Unbounded: Mobilities and Border Crossings in Singapore

Chang¹

2016

AJTR

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Abstract:Tourism is an 'unbounded' phenomenon where people, capital and information defy geographic barriers by crossing borders. This paper explores the notion of un-bounding through a case of Singapore tourism. Under a state-engineered scheme of Tourism UnLimited, the country's tourism economy is de-territorialized under a dual strategy of 'Bringing Singapore to the World' and 'Bringing the World to Singapore'. Applying the concept of mobility, Singapore's tripartite role as an exporter of tourism skills and services, a partner to neighbouring countries through collaborative projects, and an importer of tourism ideas and technologies is critically examined. Tourism mobilities are, however, not without frictions, challenges and negative consequences. Regional competition and rivalry, suspicions of Singapore's expansionist intent and the loss of place identity are some consequences that frustrate the country's tourism mobilising ambitions.

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Global City Frontiers: Singapore's Hinterland and the Contested Socio‐political Geographies of Bintan, Indonesia

Cited by 74 publications

References 32 publications

Destination competitiveness: evidence from Bali

Destination competitiveness: evidence from Bali

Mapping international flows of electronic waste

Tourism Unbounded: Mobilities and Border Crossings in Singapore

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