Integrated rural tourism:

Cawley, Mary; Gillmor, Desmond A.

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2007.07.011

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“…According to Saarinen (2006), "the term and idea of sustainability was transferred to tourism from the ideology of sustainable development following the publication of the Brundtland Commission's report 'Our Common Future' in 1987", defining sustainable development as a process that meets the needs of present generations without endangering the ability of future ones to meet their own needs (WCED, 1987). In this vein, the principles of sustainability are designed to make optimal use of resources whilst simultaneously protecting and enhancing them (Butler, 1999;Cawley and Gillmor, 2007;Saarinen, 2006). However, sustainable tourism is a multifaceted concept encompassing social, economic, ecological, cultural, perceptual, psychological, ethical, physical and political aspects among others, "each having different implications" (Saarinen, 2006(Saarinen, , p. 1125.…”

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The Economic Sustainability of Tourism Growth through Leakage Calculation

2015

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The development and growth of tourism depends on its sustainability over time and on its benefits for destinations as a whole. However, calculating sustainability is not an easy task. The aim of this article is to focus on the economic sustainability of tourism growth and, after an exhaustive review of literature, to propose a quantitative mathematical model to measure it by analyzing and calculating leakage in the hotel sector. Leakage analyzes the amount of revenue generated by tourists which does not stay in the destination. Through a sample of 204 interviews with managers, this study validates the model created and calculates leakage in a mass tourism destination (Valencian Region, Spain). Our paper opens new areas of research in sustainability literature and, as it provides orientations to outcomes for policy, it is of great value to tourism planners and governments in their tasks to implement appropriate tourism development policies.

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Section: The Importance Of Economic Sustainabilitymentioning

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The Economic Sustainability of Tourism Growth through Leakage Calculation

2015

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“…This is a method that can deeply describe and analyze a certain specific phenomenon based on abundant qualitative data [42], and most likely addresses "how" research questions [43]. It has been widely used in rural tourism research [4,5,25,29,31,[33][34][35][36][37][38]40,41].…”

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“…As for the methodologies, most of the research in tourism-based poverty alleviation and rural tourism domain used a case study method [4,5,25,29,31,[33][34][35]38,40,41], and many cases come from China [4,5,33,35,38,40,41].…”

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Innovating Rural Tourism Targeting Poverty Alleviation through a Multi-Industries Integration Network: the Case of Zhuanshui Village, Anhui Province, China

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Abstract:For an impoverished area to employ rural tourism (RT) as an avenue of poverty alleviation, there are two main challenges: building competitiveness with a very limited endowed resource base, and targeting the poor who generally lack financial capital or key capabilities as the main beneficiaries. With a case of Zhuanshui in China, an impoverished village without prominent tourism resource endowment, this paper has shown that the two challenges can be met through an innovation to construct a multi-industries integration network. This paper explores the development of the network, examines its characteristics, and analyzes its operation mechanisms. Results indicate that (1) the common objective of poverty alleviation and the same fundamental resource, combine RT and its extension industries tightly into an integration network; (2) sufficient evidence has been found for the embeddedness, endogeneity and empowerment of the network, but for empowerment, the poor's participation is just the first stage to make appropriate decisions about the development due to their inadequate capabilities; and (3) vision developing, demonstration driving and centralized decentralization governance are three vital operational mechanisms to encourage the participation and collaboration of stakeholders. We also discussed the possible challenges for sustainability, being replicability of established competitive advantages, temporality of the major leader, and potential environmental degradation.

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“…Applying this perspective within an EEG approach, we argue it is possible to distinguish patterns within the non-linear development of leisure. Where others choose an integrated approach to address the complexity of leisure and tourism (Cawley & Gillmor, 2008), we argue that integration alone is not sufficient to capture the essence of complex processes. Besides involving the content and context of leisure, specific focus should lie on how such aspects interact and how this is shaped by the actors in the sector.…”

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“…Research thus far tends to focus on the value of existing leisure services for rural areas (e.g. Cawley & Gillmor, 2008) but this leaves open the question of how leisure development can be stimulated. The goal is often to enhance leisure in a manner linked to the economic, social, cultural, natural and human resources of the specific localities (described as 'integrated rural tourism ', Cawley & Gillmor, 2008;Saxena & Ilbery, 2010;Saxena, Clark, Oliver, & Ilbery, 2007).…”

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Adaptation, interaction and urgency: a complex evolutionary economic geography approach to leisure

Meekes

Buda

Roo

2017

Tourism Geographies

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Local and regional governments in western European peripheral areas aim to spur leisure-led regional development. We explore planning for leisure by applying an evolutionary economic geography (EEG) approach from a complexity perspective. We identify conditions which enable and constrain leisure development and its effects on the region as a whole. This means combining the local level of individual adaptations with the institutional setting and with the regional scale. We examine the Dutch province of Fryslân and explore by means of case study analysis how current leisure development processes can be explained in a complex evolutionary manner. We explore economic novelty as a result of individual adaptations; how such adaptations through interactions create emerging spatial patterns; how these spatial patterns form self-organizing new types of order; and the way this process is dependent on previous paths whilst also creating new pathways. Our findings show that although development is dependent on individual adaptations often stemming from a few actors, for such adaptations to have an effect on the region requires a connectivity between actors and a sense of urgency amongst those actors. Using a complex EEG approach allows us to explain leisure-led regional development as the product of these conditions. This can help planners deal with the complexity and unpredictability of this process, focusing not on a desired end goal as such, but on creating the conditions in which a more autonomous development can take place.

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Integrated rural tourism:

Cited by 234 publications

References 65 publications

The Economic Sustainability of Tourism Growth through Leakage Calculation

The Economic Sustainability of Tourism Growth through Leakage Calculation

Innovating Rural Tourism Targeting Poverty Alleviation through a Multi-Industries Integration Network: the Case of Zhuanshui Village, Anhui Province, China

Adaptation, interaction and urgency: a complex evolutionary economic geography approach to leisure

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