Tourism Collaboration and Partnerships

The central importance of involving diverse stakeholders in effective sustainable tourism planning and management is increasingly recognised. Collaboration and partnerships are valuable ways of achieving this. Leading researchers and practitioners examine the processes, issues and politics involved in this new and fast growing field.

Part I Process and patterns: cross-border partnerships in tourism resource management, Dallen Timothy; interest based formulation of tourism policy for environmentally sensitive destinations, Brent Ritchie; collaboration on tourism policy making, Steven Parker; the World Wide Fund for Nature Arctic Tourism Project, Peter Mason, Margaret Johnston and Dave Twynam; an Australian Research Partnership between industry, universities and government, Terry de Lacy and Madelaine Boyd; developing a typology of sustainable tourism partnership, Steve Selin. Part II Politics and practice: rethinking collaboration and partnership, Michael Hall; community Roundtable for tourism-related conflicts, Tazim Jamal and Donald Getz; tourism development regimes in the inner city fringe, Philip Long; is there a tourism partnership life cycle?, Alison Caffyn; developing partnership approach to tourism in central and eastern Europe, Lesley Roberts and Fiona Simpson. Part III Emerging issues: collaborative tourism planning as adaptive experiments in emergent tourism settings, Maureen Reed; stakeholder assessment and collaborative tourism planning, Bill Bramwell and L. Medeiros de Araujo; collaboration and cultural consent, Mike Robinson; an evolution interpretation of the role of collaborative partnerships in sustainable tourism, Pascal Tremblay. Collaborative tourism planning - issues and future directions, Brill Bramwell and Bernard Lane.