Tourism Planning and Development: Contemporary Cases and Emerging Issues

Academically complex and challenging to apply, development and planning are increasingly relevant to the growing tourism industry.

This collection contains critical studies on tourism development and planning, and calls for proactive, holistic and responsible thinking. It addresses conceptual and contemporary issues in development and planning research including political trust, innovation networks, sustainability, moral encounters, enclavisation and evolutionary economics. It argues that recognition of the contextual and historical dimensions around tourism development and planning is essential to help both researchers and practitioners better understand destination and place-based decision-making. In addition, it will lead to improvements in stakeholder relations, and explains how tourism best works with localities and localities with tourism.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies.

Jarkko Saarinen is a Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Christian M. Rogerson is a Research Professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

C. Michael Hall is a Professor in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.