Symptoms of Complexity in a Tourism System

Baggio, Rodolfo

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“…It contains all the traditional elements of the tourism system (Baggio, 2008;Mill & Morrison, 2009), its distinguishing feature being its focus on wildlife as a resource tourists experience (Higginbottom, 2004;Newsome, Dowling & Moore, 2005;Shackley, 1996). In this light, the relationship between nature-based tourism, ecotourism and wildlife tourism can be represented schematically as shown in Figure 1. )…”

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Should dingoes die? Principles for engaging ecocentric ethics in wildlife tourism management

Burns

Macbeth

Moore

2011

Journal of Ecotourism

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Ethics underlie all our decisions and actions. The aim of this paper is to, first, highlight the sorts of ethical positions that inform wildlife management and, second, to propose a different set of ecocentric ethical principles that not only provide for a more authentic visitor experience of nature but also enhance the long-term survival of wildlife. An ecocentric approach involves locating people in, rather than separate from, nature and so is not possible in locations such as zoos where barriers are physically constructed and maintained between people and wildlife, but should be more compatible with wildlife tourism that is based in rather than on nature. Focusing on wildlife tourism based in nature, seven principles derived from the literature are applied to a case study of dingo management on Fraser Island in Queensland, Australia. The case study demonstrates that recognising the intrinsic value of wildlife and developing a sense of moral obligation and moral reasoning toward the wildlife tourism experience can have positive outcomes for both people and wildlife. If management strategies work within a precautionary principle, acknowledge the interconnectedness between people and nature, and accept that wildlife belongs in nature, then a more ecocentric ethic is possible. This requires managers to engage in a reflexive process with regard to their own ethical position to facilitate the practical application of an ecocentric approach.

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Should dingoes die? Principles for engaging ecocentric ethics in wildlife tourism management

Burns

Macbeth

Moore

2011

Journal of Ecotourism

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“…The tourism industry has been defined as a complex, uncertain, and unpredictable system (Farrell and TwiningWard 2004;Baggio 2008). However, limited attention has been paid to a whole system approach to tourism.…”

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Applying a Comprehensive Contextual Climate Change Vulnerability Framework to New Zealand’s Tourism Industry

Hopkins

2014

AMBIO

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“…Baggio, 2008;Farsari, Butler, & Szivas, 2011;Hartman, 2015;Ma & Hassink, 2013;McDonald, 2009;Russell & Faulkner, 1999;Zahra & Ryan, 2007). Russell and Faulkner (1999) use a chaos and complexity perspective to analyze the development of Gold Coast in Australia, and show how the actions of just a few individuals, which they refer to as 'movers and shakers', can have large and disproportionate effects on the development of an area.…”

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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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Symptoms of Complexity in a Tourism System

Cited by 311 publications

References 82 publications

Should dingoes die? Principles for engaging ecocentric ethics in wildlife tourism management

Should dingoes die? Principles for engaging ecocentric ethics in wildlife tourism management

Applying a Comprehensive Contextual Climate Change Vulnerability Framework to New Zealand’s Tourism Industry

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

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