Description
Book SynopsisTimely and accessible, this Handbook offers a thorough account of the growth, development, and changes in the field of tourism planning over recent decades. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international range of top scholars, it examines critical issues and challenges facing contemporary tourism planning.
Covering research at local, national, and global levels, chapters unpack and frame planning strategies in various destinations, expanding the definition of tourism planning to encompass a range of successful case studies. The Handbook looks at reimagining tourism planning through sustainability; engaging with forms of creative cultural tourism, the smart city, and rethinking how we see, communicate, understand, and can transform tourist destinations. It also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified pre-existing issues in the tourism sector, including sustainability, policy, and governance.
Providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on tourism planning, this Handbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the field. The diversity of perspectives and action-oriented, project-specific approach also make this an invigorating read for tourism planners and practitioners, particularly those focusing on making tourism practices more sustainable.
Trade Review‘This Handbook provides a fresh, interdisciplinary and postmodern approach to tourism planning that considers topical issues such as overtourism and community participation. Chapters are contributed by various scholars that not only refresh our understanding of the processes and outcomes of tourism planning, but they also give insights from different type of destinations all over the globe. The Handbook is a valuable source of reference for tourism researchers and policy makers alike.’ -- Marianna Sigala, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
‘Xie’s Handbook on Tourism Planning
is a comprehensive and timely compilation that documents progress in research and practice during the half century since the publication of Gunn’s pioneering book Vacationscape (1972). Contributing scholar practitioners from 15 countries and regions show the enduring importance of effective and multidisciplinary tourism planning in the complex and interconnected post-pandemic era.’ -- Brian King, Texas A&M University, US
‘Given the pandemic and the importance of sustainability, Professor Philip Xie has curated an excellent collection of tourism planning research exploring genius loci, “a sense of place”, through 26 chapters spanning 15 different countries. This volume will be essential reading for those interested in tourism planning, and its impacts.’ -- Stephen Pratt, University of Central Florida, US
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Tourism Planning 1 Philip F. Xie PART I FOUNDATIONS OF TOURISM PLANNING 1 An important legacy of Clare Gunn: the championing of multidisciplinary thought and action 26 Michael Fagence 2 Creating new tourism stories: participatory tourism futures planning 39 Gianna Moscardo 3 Regional tourism planning within a developing economy context 55 Walter Jamieson and Michelle Jamieson 4 Understanding tourism impacts: a heterogeneous constructionism approach 77 Edieser Dela Santa and Mary Anne Ramos-Tumanan 5 Stakeholders’ perceptions and networking capacity in tourism planning: grounded theory applied to the Northern Region of mainland Portugal 92 Paula Remoaldo, Juliana Alves, Mansour Ghanian, António Azevedo and Sara Silva 6 The role of governance in tourism planning 119 Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo and Unathi Sonwabile Henama 7 National peripheries, borderlands and tourism planning 132 Dallen J. Timothy PART II THE CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF TOURISM PLANNING PRINCIPLES 8 Global risks and challenges of tourism planning 147 Wieslaw Alejziak 9 Existentialist authenticity model for eco-spiritual destinations 170 Deepak Chhabra 10 The importance of policies and planning in the tourism job market: a reflection on actions and inactions in the United Kingdom 182 Alberto Amore 11 Extracting the unique qualities of place: adding value to Clare Gunn’s spatial framework 195 Michael Fagence 12 Linking urban morphology to tourism planning 211 Philip F. Xie 13 Residents’ attitudes toward tourism development in the Azores, Portugal: effects of tourist-to-resident interaction 225 José Cadima Ribeiro, Laurentina Vareiro and Isabel Cristina Monjardino 14 The impact of tourist perception of fraud risk on tourism planning 242 Rasha Kassem and Daniel Santamaria PART III REIMAGINING TOURISM PLANNING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY 15 Sustainability indicators for assessing tourism planning: the case of the application of the European tourism indicator system to County Sligo, Ireland 256 Emmet McLoughlin and Kelly Maguire 16 Planning local and neighbourhood commercial districts through a visitor economy lens 274 Walter Jamieson 17 Tourism planning and cross-border cooperation: the case of Iberian Eurocities 292 Ana Sofia Duque and Paulo Carvalho 18 Disintegrated coastal tourism development: reconnecting landscape research and planning practice 305 Kai Gu and Ye Li 19 Sustainable tourism: innovating path through smart city projects 321 Silvia Fernandes and Fatima L. Carvalho 20 Scenario planning for sustainable social tourism development 339 Omid Salek Farokhi and Samereh Pourmoradian PART IV CASE STUDIES OF SUCCESSFUL TOURISM PLANNING 21 Heritage tourism planning in Kazakhstan: authenticity, niche tourism development and diversification 352 Guillaume Tiberghien 22 A strategic planning for agritourism in Taiwan 370 Tsung-Chiung (Emily) Wu, Alex Yang-Chan Hsu and Wen Horng Yu 23 Ethnic tourism planning: a developing country perspective 387 Li Yang 24 Community-oriented approach for the development of cultural tourism destinations: the case of “LAG Terra Barocca” 398 Nicola Cerpelloni, Francesco Lucifora and Marco Platania 25 Planning a creative cultural tourism destination 417 Yang Zhang 26 Scuba diving attraction planning: seeking best practices in Queensland, Australia 437 David Coffey, Alexandra Coghlan and Sarah Gardiner Index 461
