Tourism Policy-Making in the Context of Contested Wicked Problems

Politics, Paradigm Shifts and Transformation Processes

Christof Pforr, Markus Pillmayer, Marion Joppe, Nicolai Scherle, Harald Pechlaner

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781835499863
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

Embedded in and interrelated with its broader socio-economic and political context, the tourism system currently faces profound challenges. Against this backdrop, the book Tourism Policy-Making in the Context of Contested Wicked Problems offers a contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective on tourism public policy to aid the description, analysis, and explanation of these wicked and interconnected, complex policy problems. Current problem-solving capabilities and competences of governments to deal with specific tourism policy issues (or wicked problems) such as the climate emergency, tourism mobility, indigenous disadvantages, the COVID-19 pandemic, or the P2P economy are critically analysed and some interesting insights are offered into transition pathways towards tourism sustainability.

The book is part of the Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research series which seeks to advance knowledge and sense-making skills in interpreting cultural, organisational, and personal influences relating to tourism and hospitality behaviours. This broad objective includes examining unconscious and conscious thinking processes of tourists, guests, and/or service providers in contexts that relate to tourism and hospitality.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Chapter 1. Interrogating Tourism and Hospitality’s Wicked Employment Issues Through the Lens of Paradox Theory
• Chapter 2. Wicked Contexts Pushing for Change in Argentina: Tourism, Labour Informality and PreViaje Policy
• Chapter 3. 50 Years UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Curse or Cure?
• Chapter 4. Tourism Policymaking in Finland: A Multilevel Governance Perspective
• Chapter 5. Only Those Who Can Shout Loud Enough Will be Heard? Tourism Lobbying in a Turbulent World of Wicked Problems in Germany
• Chapter 6. Bulgarian Tourism Policy: Intentions VERSUS Reality
• Chapter 7. Indigenous Tourism Policy: A Perspective from Australia
• Chapter 8. Indigenous Tourism and Political Recognition of Rights in Chile
• Chapter 9. Politics of Migration and Tourism in the Gambia
• Chapter 10. The Trajectory of Public Tourism Policies in Brazil (1922–2022): From Wicked Problem to a Geopolitical Strategy?
• Chapter 11. Towards Social Innovation Governance in Developing Country Destinations: A Comparative Analysis Between Tourism Ecosystems in Azerbaijan and Ecuador
• Chapter 12. Nothing About Us without Us: Citizens’ Role in Urban Tourism Policy-making
• Chapter 13. Socio-Political Dynamics of Airbnb and the Platform Economy
• Chapter 14. Gender Inequity in Tourism: A Policy Challenge
• Chapter 15. More Than Just Anti-discrimination Policy: Conceptual Reflections on the Strategic Benefits of Diversity Management in Tourism
• Chapter 16. When Policy Conflicts with the Data Science: Predicting the Cost Overrun of the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games
• Conclusion
• Index