Developing sustainable tourism through public-private partnership to alleviate poverty in Ghana

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-22 DOI:10.1177/1468797620955250

Tamakloe Geoffrey Deladem, Zhongdong Xiao, T. Siueia, S. Doku, I. Tettey

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Abstract

Encouraging sustainable tourism is an essential aspect of driving economic growth, social responsibility and safeguarding the ecology. This study, therefore, aimed at examining how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in sustainable tourism development helps eradicate poverty in tourism host communities. A qualitative design was employed by using a semi-structured interview to collect primary data from experts from diverse backgrounds using both purposive and snowball sampling techniques. The findings were thematically analysed and discussed by focusing on general issues related to sustainable tourism and how PPP implementation in the tourism sector has impacted on the economic, social and environmental conditions of the tourism destination areas in Ghana. The findings indicate that the potential of PPP development for long-term economic infrastructural needs of tourism destination have not been sufficiently realized. We suggest that the sole involvement of the private sector and a poor commitment from government has led to a failure to create enough jobs to improve prosperity among the local people in these tourism host communities. Nonetheless, PPP development and implementation have improved the preservation of traditional values, cultural heritage and inter-cultural tolerance in the tourism destination areas. As a result, tourism host communities have seen a positive impact on intercultural interaction, business activities, entrepreneurial development and economic empowerment to eradicate poverty in the host communities. Commitment and the poor involvement of the tourism host communities can have long-term negative effects on poverty eradication in the locales.

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通过公私伙伴关系发展可持续旅游业以减轻加纳的贫困

鼓励可持续旅游业是推动经济增长、社会责任和保护生态的重要方面。因此，本研究旨在研究可持续旅游业发展中的公私伙伴关系如何帮助旅游业所在社区消除贫困。采用定性设计，使用半结构化访谈，使用目的性抽样和滚雪球抽样技术从不同背景的专家那里收集主要数据。对调查结果进行了主题分析和讨论，重点关注与可持续旅游业有关的一般问题，以及旅游业PPP的实施如何影响加纳旅游目的地的经济、社会和环境条件。研究结果表明，PPP发展对旅游目的地长期经济基础设施需求的潜力尚未充分发挥。我们认为，私营部门的单独参与和政府的糟糕承诺导致了未能创造足够的就业机会来改善这些旅游接待社区当地人的繁荣。尽管如此，PPP的开发和实施改善了旅游目的地对传统价值观、文化遗产和文化间宽容的保护。因此，旅游业所在社区对文化间互动、商业活动、创业发展和经济赋权产生了积极影响，以消除所在社区的贫困。旅游业东道社区的承诺和参与不力可能会对当地的消除贫困产生长期的负面影响。

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Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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6.90

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.