Informatologia, Vol. 50 No. 1-2, 2017.
Original scientific paper
RE-EVALUATING A STRATEGIC MODEL FOR TOURISM DESTINATIONS - PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THEORIES AND CONCEPTS
Marko Koščak
; Faculty of Tourism, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Tony O’Rourke
; ; Institute of Banking and Finance, London, United Kingdom
Dinko Bilić
; Croatian Communication Association
Abstract
In this paper we seek to identify what we see as a dysfunctional barrier in the development of environmentally and economically sustainable tourism at a local level. Changing shifts in tourism markets have led to the greater importance of sustainable tourism initiatives, which by their very nature will tend to have a locally oriented concept, as opposed to a national or international concept. Our research used four comparative case-studies to consider the potential advantage of locally focused bottom-up tourism models based on coalitions of key local actors over top-down models based on national or international structures.
Keywords
tourism destination; bottom-up approach; local coalition; multi-stakeholders concept; destination management
Hrčak ID:
183665
URI
Publication date:
28.6.2017.
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