Tourism Communities and Growth Management

Gill, Alison

doi:10.1002/9780470752272.ch45

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“…For example, an incremental change in train services to Middlemarch may give both the community and the tourism industry the time needed for improving their services and infrastructure to cater for the increased number of visitors. In general, this aligns with recommendations from tourism sustainability research, which supports the view that changes to local community services need to be incremental and tourism impacts and benefits constantly reevaluated (e.g., Gill, 2004).…”

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Linking Tourism Products to Enhance Cycle Tourism: The Case of the Taieri Gorge Railway and the Otago Central Rail Trail, New Zealand

Reis¹,

Lovelock²,

Jellum³

2014

Tourism Review International

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This study, undertaken in rural New Zealand, discusses issues involved in enhancing linkages between an existing rail tourism product and a cycle tourism product. The article assesses demand for such a development and gauges current and potential future connectivity between the two products. The article draws on a survey of train passengers and rail trail visitors, along with interviews undertaken with key tourism and community stakeholders in relation to the rail trail. The data highlight problems around product development and integration. While participants agree that an enhanced link between the railway and the rail trail will be of benefit for all those involved with tourism in the region, stakeholders who currently benefit from the current (unenhanced) links between the two tourism products are hesitant about improved connectivity because of concerns centered around community growth management. Conversely, other stakeholders support enhanced rail/trail connections, lending weight to social exchange premises which infer that attitudes towards a particular issue are influenced by evaluations of the real and expected outcomes for individuals or their communities. The article highlights the complexities around the multistakeholder nature of managing such linear routes, especially in rural communities where the benefits and drawbacks of tourism developments are strongly felt.

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Section: Qualitative Findingssupporting

confidence: 73%

Linking Tourism Products to Enhance Cycle Tourism: The Case of the Taieri Gorge Railway and the Otago Central Rail Trail, New Zealand

Reis¹,

Lovelock²,

Jellum³

2014

Tourism Review International

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“…Tourism development has wide ranging impacts on many different groups of stakeholders, which can be defined as actors affecting and/or being affected by the development (Reed et al, 2009; see Starik, 1995). The success of a destination is often measured through growth; tourism impacts, however, are more complex and less commonly taken into account (Gill, 2004). According to Saarinen (2006: 1131), there is “an urgent need to re-evaluate the perspectives from which the industry and its sustainability are perceived.”…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Tourism brings financial benefits such as income, work, and leisure facilities (Ladkin, 2011; Leiper, 2004; Nelson and Matthews, 2018) but also risks such as instability in global markets (Smeral, 2010), overdependence on tourism (Diedrich and García-Buades, 2009), or domination by multinational companies (Liu and Wall, 2006). Social impacts linked to employment possibilities and empowerment, for example, may be beneficial but tourism can also dominate and change locals’ lives via rising housing costs, intensified usage of land and public spaces, and tourists’ misbehavior (Ashworth and Page, 2011; Bruttomesso, 2018; Gill, 2004; see Leiper, 2004; Reid et al, 2004). Based on the need to understand and respond to the challenges surrounding tourism, the sustainability approach has evolved.…”

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Social innovations and sustainability of tourism: Insights from public sector in Kemi, Finland

Partanen

Sarkki

2021

Tourist Studies

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This article proposes new insights on sustainability of tourism through social innovations. The underlying aim is to find practical ways to enhance sustainability in and through tourism, as sustainability has been criticized for its abstract nature. The marginally studied relationship of sustainability of tourism and social innovations is explored by utilizing ethnographic data on tourism, which is expected to grow in Kemi, Finland. Two examined examples of social innovations—related to social inclusion, employment, and using waste food—offer insights for tourism by bringing out non-traditional public sector perspectives and novel, multi-sectoral grass-root initiatives for coping with societal challenges at the local level. This paper suggests that sustainability of tourism can be informed through social innovations as cooperative processes, which respond to local needs and create novel solutions and social and other value at the destination. It is discussed how insights from social innovations can widen the understanding of what constitutes a tourism stakeholder, bring in the holistic, multi-sectoral dimensions of sustainability, and provide examples on the use of collaborative spaces for practical tourism planning.

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“…It is a philosophy that could enable Generation Tourism to engage in relationship building as it allows researchers to solve problems from different perspectives and connect seemingly opposing views, thereby bridging the positivist and relativist divide. Although greater attention to critical realism in tourism studies has been advocated by some tourism scholars (Botterill, 2007;Gill, 2004) it does not appear to have been widely adopted.…”

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Generation Tourism: towards a common identity

Filep

Hughes

Mostafanezhad

et al. 2013

Current Issues in Tourism

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The purpose of this article is to highlight the implications of the indiscipline of tourism academia for a new generation of tourism academics. Generation Tourism is characterised by scholars with a multi-disciplinary education associated with a broad field of study and commonly considered to lack the advantages of a disciplinefocused education with its strong theoretical and methodological foundations. The problem this article addresses relates to how new generations of scholars and their views on knowledge creation achieve ascendancy in ways that move on from existing paradigms and earlier cohorts of scholars. Our main argument is that Generation Tourism scholars would benefit from a more clearly developed and common academic identity. To begin the critical conversation around the identity of Generation Tourism we outline five possible points of departure. These points are: (1) learning from historical developments in parent disciplines; (2) spearheading inter-disciplinary scholarship; (3) working towards theoretical developments; (4) embracing mediating methodologies and (5) forming tourism nodes and networks. Recognising these as starting points rather than final statements, we hope that the conversation about Generation Tourism identity will continue in other forums.

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Tourism Communities and Growth Management

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

Linking Tourism Products to Enhance Cycle Tourism: The Case of the Taieri Gorge Railway and the Otago Central Rail Trail, New Zealand

Linking Tourism Products to Enhance Cycle Tourism: The Case of the Taieri Gorge Railway and the Otago Central Rail Trail, New Zealand

Social innovations and sustainability of tourism: Insights from public sector in Kemi, Finland

Generation Tourism: towards a common identity

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