Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.23912/9781911635000-3912
Dr. Janne Liburd
This chapter will provide conceptual clarifications of collaboration and sustainable development, and their application to tourism. Collaboration is not new in the contexts of tourism research, tourism higher education or the tourism industry. Academic life thrives on selection, classification and informed judgement, which are not at odds with collaboration. Without argument and counterargument, knowledge cannot be advanced. Tourism destinations are made up of many industry actors and stakeholders who are engaged in a myriad of networks and collaborative efforts. Tourists readily choose between destinations in a globally competitive field. Many travel to over-crowded destinations, where the tourism sector drives the destination to accommodate its demands, which may be at odds with sustainably living within the needs and wants of the destination and its local inhabitants. This chapter will attempt to overcome the all too frequent gap between sustainability in tourism theory and practice, by focusing on collaborative dimensions and possible critical engagements. The overall objective is to add three aspects to the current literature and appreciative understanding of the importance of collaboration for sustainable tourism development.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.23912/9781911635000-3916
Anja Hergesell, D. Edwards, A. Zins
One of the key factors shaping the future of tourism is climate change (Becken & Hay, 2007; Dwyer et al., 2009; Nordin, 2005). Burns and Bibbings (2009) even predict “the end of tourism” should current consumption patterns prevail. There is an alternative to this future, but to develop “new imaginations for the sustainable development” of tourism we must understand the wicked problem of tourists’ environmental behavior. Tourists’ environmental behavior impacts on sustainable development to varying degrees (Becken et al, 2003; Metz et al., 2007) depending on whether they behave responsibly or irresponsibly. People consider holidays as a break from everyday life (Becken, 2004; Dolnicar & Grün, 2009) which suggests that people may behave differently when they are tour- ists. For this reason, this chapter explores tourists’ uptake of environmental behaviors by examining their propensity to responsible environmental behavior while travelling. A better understanding of tourists’ environmental behavior can lead to strategies that support collaborative actions “towards facilitating tourism development that is inherently sustainable” (Jennings, 2018). Environmental behavior is a very complex field of research (Hergesell, 2017). Such behavior is determined by a range of internal and external factors with the significance of these factors differing dependent on the person, the context and the type of behavior under study. The question is hence how to reduce ‘irresponsible’ behavior.
塑造旅游业未来的关键因素之一是气候变化(Becken & Hay, 2007;Dwyer et al., 2009;Nordin, 2005)。Burns和Bibbings(2009)甚至预测,如果当前的消费模式盛行,“旅游业将终结”。这种未来是可以替代的,但要开发旅游业可持续发展的“新想象力”,我们必须了解游客环境行为的邪恶问题。游客环境行为对可持续发展有不同程度的影响(Becken et al ., 2003;Metz et al., 2007)取决于他们的行为是负责任的还是不负责任的。人们认为假期是日常生活的休息(Becken, 2004;Dolnicar & gr n, 2009),这表明当人们是旅游者时,他们的行为可能会有所不同。出于这个原因,本章通过考察游客在旅行中负责任的环境行为倾向来探讨游客对环境行为的吸收。更好地了解游客的环境行为可以制定支持合作行动的战略,“促进本质上可持续的旅游发展”(Jennings, 2018)。环境行为是一个非常复杂的研究领域(Hergesell, 2017)。这种行为是由一系列内部和外部因素决定的,这些因素的重要性取决于个人所处的环境和所研究的行为类型。因此,问题是如何减少“不负责任”的行为。
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.23912/9781911635000-3931
Chris Heape, J. Liburd
Tourism is a global social and economic phenomenon, which calls for a holistic approach to tourism higher education, where the broader aims of the industry and society are explicitly addressed. The indispensable complexity of the tourism phenomenon demands professionals with a far-reaching and integrated understanding of the multiple disciplines and paradigms that are concerned with sustainable tourism development and adaptive management. Rather than resting on predefined learning outcomes, where students simply acquire knowledge about sustainable tourism development, this chapter unfolds the processes of how complex and critical understandings of sustainable tourism development are collaboratively designed with students, tutors and teachers.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.23912/9781911635000-3924
M. Deery, L. Jago, C. Harris, J. Liburd
The tourism and hospitality industry is very much a ‘people industry’, which requires a stable and talented workforce as a fundamental component. However, there are some aspects of the industry that make it unattractive to potential employees. These aspects include the long and unsocial hours of work, the low pay and often stressful working environment (Deery and Jago, 2015: Karatepe, 2013). These aspects contribute to the industry’s reputation for not providing staff with an acceptable work-life balance. The question then becomes how the tourism and hospitality industry can contribute to a better balance and thus underpin the socio-cultural aspects of sustainability. This study examines the sustainability of the industry across three countries, Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and New Zealand, by focusing on whether tourism employees in hospitality organisations consider they have a balance between their personal and work lives. Hospitality is chosen as the focus for this study since it plays a fundamentally important role in underpinning the viability of the broader tourism industry. Current practices are confronted by larger societal changes in the labour market, where lifelong careers within the same firm (or industry) are challenged by rapid employee turnover, demands for greater flexibility, new technologies, and alternative work schedules. We discuss how collaboration between industry, employees and wider community may help underpin sustainable tourism development.
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