Power, community involvement, and sustainability of tourism destinations

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

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI:10.1177/14687976221144335

Xuan Dong, T. Nguyen

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Abstract

Power to influence is essential to encourage stakeholder involvement in tourism development, yet little is known about how power can affect stakeholder involvement in achieving sustainable tourism. This paper reports a qualitative case study to explore power relations between stakeholders concerning the sustainability of tourism destinations. The data collection involves document analysis and interviews with tourism stakeholders in Da Nang, a flagship tourist destination in central Vietnam. Our findings revealed the influence of the local community and public opinion on the change of government decisions related to a new tourism development plan. The combination of top-down influence (exercised by the central government) and bottom-up influence (manifested by the local community) forced the Da Nang government to consider the community’s voice. This research contributes to the tourism literature on community involvement in sustainable tourism by providing an understanding of reshaping power relations to increase the power balance between stakeholders. The finding recommends practical implications for destination governance in achieving environmental sustainability by involving the local community and mobilising public actions.

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旅游目的地的权力、社区参与和可持续性

影响力对于鼓励利益攸关方参与旅游发展至关重要，但对于权力如何影响利益攸关方参与实现可持续旅游，我们知之甚少。本文报告了一个定性的案例研究，探讨利益相关者之间的权力关系对旅游目的地的可持续性。数据收集包括文件分析和对越南中部旗舰旅游目的地岘港的旅游利益相关者的访谈。我们的研究结果揭示了当地社区和公众舆论对政府改变与新的旅游发展计划有关的决策的影响。自上而下的影响(由中央政府行使)和自下而上的影响(由当地社区体现)相结合，迫使岘港政府考虑社区的声音。本研究通过提供重塑权力关系以增加利益相关者之间的权力平衡的理解，为社区参与可持续旅游的旅游文献做出了贡献。该研究结果建议通过让当地社区参与和动员公众行动来实现环境可持续性，从而对目的地治理产生实际影响。

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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.