Improving tourism destination governance: a complexity science approach
By Rodolfo Baggio, N. Scott, Chris Cooper. 2010
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Purpose – The growing interest in complexity science as a framework for understanding social and economic systems has had, in recent times, an influence on the study of tourism destinations. This paper aims to describe this approach and discuss its theoretical and methodological implications in terms of destination governance.Design/methodology/approach – Traditional research has adopted a reductionist approach to modelling tourist destinations: variables and relationships are embedded in simplified linear models that explain observed phenomena and allow implications for management or forecasting of future behaviours. In comparison, this paper adopts an adaptive management approach. Rather than imposing lines of action to force the evolutionary path of a system, the effect of different management actions are modelled, producing experimental results that provide information about the system that is being managed, and used to refine strategies and governance styles. Complex systems provide a theoretical fra...
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science
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- Rethinking resort growth: understanding evolving governance strategies in Whistler, British Columbia (2011, background): “Some recent studies on destination governance have adopted network approaches especially with respect to understanding the preconditions for innovation ( Baggio, Scott, & Cooper, 2010 ; Beritelli et al, 2007 ; Erkus-Osturk & Eraydin, 2010 ; Guia et al, 2006; Lazzeretti & Petrillo, 2006 ; Pforr, ”
- Tourism Governance and Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa (2019, background): “interactions, regardless of power relations to promote sustainable tourism (Baggio et al., 2010; Hall, 2011).”