Handbook on Tourism Planning

Edited by Philip Feifan Xie, Professor of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management, Bowling Green State University, US

Contents:

Introduction to the Handbook on Tourism Planning 1
Philip F. Xie

PART I FOUNDATIONS OF TOURISM PLANNING
1 An important legacy of Clare Gunn: the championing of multidisciplinary thought and action 26
Michael Fagence
2 Creating new tourism stories: participatory tourism futures planning 39
Gianna Moscardo
3 Regional tourism planning within a developing economy context 55
Walter Jamieson and Michelle Jamieson
4 Understanding tourism impacts: a heterogeneous constructionism approach 77
Edieser Dela Santa and Mary Anne Ramos-Tumanan
5 Stakeholders’ perceptions and networking capacity in tourism planning: grounded theory applied to the Northern Region of mainland Portugal 92
Paula Remoaldo, Juliana Alves, Mansour Ghanian, António Azevedo and Sara Silva
6 The role of governance in tourism planning 119
Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo and Unathi Sonwabile Henama
7 National peripheries, borderlands and tourism planning 132
Dallen J. Timothy

PART II THE CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF TOURISM PLANNING PRINCIPLES
8 Global risks and challenges of tourism planning 147
Wieslaw Alejziak
9 Existentialist authenticity model for eco-spiritual destinations 170
Deepak Chhabra
10 The importance of policies and planning in the tourism job market: a reflection on actions and inactions in the United Kingdom 182
Alberto Amore
11 Extracting the unique qualities of place: adding value to Clare Gunn’s spatial framework 195
Michael Fagence
12 Linking urban morphology to tourism planning 211
Philip F. Xie
13 Residents’ attitudes toward tourism development in the Azores, Portugal: effects of tourist-to-resident interaction 225
José Cadima Ribeiro, Laurentina Vareiro and Isabel Cristina Monjardino
14 The impact of tourist perception of fraud risk on tourism planning 242
Rasha Kassem and Daniel Santamaria

PART III REIMAGINING TOURISM PLANNING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY
15 Sustainability indicators for assessing tourism planning: the case of the application of the European tourism indicator system to County Sligo, Ireland 256
Emmet McLoughlin and Kelly Maguire
16 Planning local and neighbourhood commercial districts through a visitor economy lens 274
Walter Jamieson
17 Tourism planning and cross-border cooperation: the case of Iberian Eurocities 292
Ana Sofia Duque and Paulo Carvalho
18 Disintegrated coastal tourism development: reconnecting landscape research and planning practice 305
Kai Gu and Ye Li
19 Sustainable tourism: innovating path through smart city projects 321
Silvia Fernandes and Fatima L. Carvalho
20 Scenario planning for sustainable social tourism development 339
Omid Salek Farokhi and Samereh Pourmoradian

PART IV CASE STUDIES OF SUCCESSFUL TOURISM PLANNING
21 Heritage tourism planning in Kazakhstan: authenticity, niche tourism development and diversification 352
Guillaume Tiberghien
22 A strategic planning for agritourism in Taiwan 370
Tsung-Chiung (Emily) Wu, Alex Yang-Chan Hsu and Wen Horng Yu
23 Ethnic tourism planning: a developing country perspective 387
Li Yang
24 Community-oriented approach for the development of cultural tourism destinations: the case of “LAG Terra Barocca” 398
Nicola Cerpelloni, Francesco Lucifora and Marco Platania
25 Planning a creative cultural tourism destination 417
Yang Zhang
26 Scuba diving attraction planning: seeking best practices in Queensland, Australia 437
David Coffey, Alexandra Coghlan and Sarah Gardiner

Index 461