Tourism Public Policy, and the Strategic Management of Failure

by Kerr,William Revill

• ISBN13: 9780080442006
• ISBN10: 0080442005
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is concerned with the development of tourism and tourism public policy, and the strategic management of failure of tourism to realize its commercial potential. The particular salience of this research lies in the fact that it has been conducted during conceivably the most interesting (politically) and volatile (globally) period for the world's tourism industry. Increasing competition, economic, and environmental issues combined with the continued threat of terrorism, and instability in the middle-east, necessitated governments assessing and redefining their tourism public policies. How they approached this in the late nineties and new Millennium is reflected in the first part of the book. The second part focuses on Scotland whose tourism public policy issues in the late nineties were focused, concentrated, and mutated by globalization, political devolution, and the restoration of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. In consequence tourism and economic development powers were devolved to Edinburgh from,Westminster. However, other powers such as fiscal and employment policies which impacted greatly on tourism were reserved to Westminster, a complex situation which the book has also set out to explain, as it does the Scottish Parliament's inability to influence such powers.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
Appendix Contents	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	xv
Part I: Global Tourism
1. Aspects of the Tourism Industry in the 21st Century	3	(20)
2. Tourism and Public Policy Approaches and Theories	23	(24)
3. Tourism and Public Policy - The Globalisation of Tourism	47	(38)
4. The Development, Structure, and Public Policy of Tourism in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland	85	(30)
Part II: Scottish Tourism
5. The Development, Structure, and Public Policy of Tourism in Scotland	115	(22)
6. The Impact on Devolution and Scottish Tourism of Reserved Powers	137	(16)
7. The Strategic Management of Failure of Scottish Tourism	153	(14)
8. Approaches to Scottish Tourism Public Policy	167	(12)
9. Initiatives, Consultations, Reviews, and Strategies that Evolved During the First Scottish Parliament (1999-2003)	179	(26)
10. Scottish Tourism: Where to Now?	205	(20)
References	225	(20)
Further Reading	245	(6)
Appendix	251	(28)
Author Index	279	(4)
Subject Index	283