Stories of Practice: Tourism Policy and Planning

Аннотация

This book fills a significant gap in approaches and methods used in tourism policy and planning analysis. as the political landscape of and around tourism continues to change, we hope this book continues to give valuable insights into how a social constructivist perspective can be used to explore policy and planning issues at a range of scales and in a range of settings over time. in brief, the stories here are all very different. they reveal part of the ‘art’ in the science of studying planning and policy. the book reveals how differently our own world views and engagement with an issue can significantly shape our understandings and knowledge. indeed, if we consider tourism as an important aspect of contemporary life and an inherently valuable element in many people’s lives, it would be fair to say that studies of tourism planning and policy firmly grounded in the social sciences can tell us as much about contemporary life and governance as that of similar research in the fields of health, environment and technology.