Managing Uncertainties in the Governance of Sustainable Tourism Networks

Abstract

At the turn of the millennium, the Journal of Sustainable Tourism special issue on collaboration and partnerships (Bramwell & Lane, 1999), and the book Tourism Collaboration and Partnership: Politics, practice and sustainability (Bramwell & Lane, 2000), set the agenda for research about the role of collaboration in sustainable tourism. Since then, many more articles on the topic have been published and as a result a solid corpus of knowledge has emerged over the years. This lit- erature can be divided into three main blocks according to whether the focus is on collaborative structures for sustainable tourism (partnerships, networks and governance), on stakeholder identification and involvement, or on the obstacles that these collaborative processes may face.