The evolution of destinations: towards an evolutionary and relational economic geography approach

Sánz-Ibáñez, Cinta; Clavé, Salvador Antón

doi:10.1080/14616688.2014.925965

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“…On closer inspection, co-evolution is apparent in the development, promotion and continuation of sustainable tourism activities in protected areas. Co-evolution also provided a perspective that saw the combination of a path dependent and path creating trajectory within a tourism institution, rather than separate distinct categories as noted in other studies [11], [12], [18].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When these concepts are used in tourism research they are often drawn from research in the academic field of "evolutionary economic geography" [8], [9]. Some of these recent studies of tourism and temporal change recognise that path creation and path dependence are better understood if they are not seen as binary or separate categories [10]- [12]. Brouder and Fullerton [13, p. 152], for example, note how incremental path creating changes have occurred in the established tourism development path in Niagara, Canada, and that these "new paths co-evolve with the dominant tourism paths".…”

Section: Tourism and Co-evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This new manager represented change because he sought substantial engagement in decision-making by interested parties to diffuse previous conflicts around the estate's management of recreation, tourism and environmental protection. Stanage's unexpected new institutional arrangements reflected the two path-creating catalysts outlined here, but they also resulted from dialectical, co-evolving and coconstituting relationships between both path creation and path dependence [11], [12], [29]. The path-creating step of setting up the Forum and Steering Group in 2000, for example, was in dialectical relationship with an established, path dependent trend in the 1990s in the UK toward more participatory governance [30].…”

Section: Co-evolution Between Path Dependence Trajectories and Path Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Co-Evolution, Sustainable Tourism and Protected Areas

Mellon

2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper explores the concept of co-evolution and its role in achieving a greater understanding of sustainable tourism in the context of protected areas. Adopting a co-evolutionary perspective has potential to be a fertile ground for studying governance and policy of Sustainable Development. In the context of protected areas where social and ecological systems run parallel with each other, and where Sustainable Development has become a key objective, co-evolutionary development may be expected. Therefore, this exploration of sustainable tourism policy and governance in a protected area through a co-evolutionary lens uncovers a wide range of linkages and relationships to other policies, internal and external influences and the protected area's historical context. The paper reveals how sustainable tourism policies in the Lake District National Park, England, developed incrementally and gradually over a period of 20 years and were often reformulated and reframed during this time scale. Similarly, the paper also discusses findings from research within the Peak District National Park Authority, England which reveal how drivers for sustainable tourism increased greater partnership working and how policies for sustainable development and sustainable tourism "co-evolved" during the studied period. The paper draws attention to the value of adopting a co-evolutionary approach to sustainable tourism research, particularly if institutions are operating in an environment where the ability to learn and understand the complexity of sustainable tourism and can contribute to their wider goals of Sustainable Development.

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Section: Tourism and Co-evolutionmentioning

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Section: Co-evolution Between Path Dependence Trajectories and Path Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Co-Evolution, Sustainable Tourism and Protected Areas

Mellon

2018

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…In recent years, a number of scholars have applied an EEG approach to the field of leisure and tourism (Brouder, 2013(Brouder, , 2014Brouder & Eriksson, 2013;Brouder, Clav e, S., A., & Ioannides, 2017;Ioannides, Halkier, & Lew, 2014;Sanz-Ib añez & Anton Clav e, 2014). EEG adds the idea that history matters to geographical and spatial sciences (Gill & Williams, 2014) combining past and present of a region to explain spatial differences in economic development (Boschma & Frenken, 2011).…”

Section: Complex Evolutionary Economic Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…It has specially been used to understand the emergence, rise and decline of a tourism area and the path dependence and lock-in of dominant tourism products and sectors [23] or to understand why destinations change over time [24][25][26].…”

Section: Path Dependency Of Hotels Within Sustainable Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green practices in hotels: the case of the GreenLeaders Program from TripAdvisor

Londoño¹,

Hernández-Maskivker²

2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Green or eco-friendly practices in the accommodation sector are growing around the world. Conscious customers demand these services. The purpose of this paper is to analyse eco-friendly practices developed by hotels within the GreenLeaders Program from TripAdvisor in six destinations: Boston and Chicago, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris and Toronto. This information gathered is based on customer reviews published on TripAdvisor and hotel websites. The information is analysed from the concepts of evolutionary economic geography combine with consumer behaviour literature. Taking the six destinations as the main case study, this approach allows not only the comprehension of the green practices implemented by hotels, but also, customer recognition and perception about those practices related to sustainability.

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The evolution of destinations: towards an evolutionary and relational economic geography approach

Cited by 90 publications

References 92 publications

Co-Evolution, Sustainable Tourism and Protected Areas

Co-Evolution, Sustainable Tourism and Protected Areas

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

Green practices in hotels: the case of the GreenLeaders Program from TripAdvisor

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