From Global Frameworks to Local Meanings: Assessing Resilience for Sustainable Destinations through the Lens of Transdisciplinary Research
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Elena Eckert
und Eva Posch
Abstract
Tourism destinations are increasingly confronted with complex, multifaceted and interconnected risks. Building resilience is an important step to address these risks and achieve sustainable development. While global frameworks serve a guiding function, the dynamic and adaptive nature of resilience requires innovative and transformative approaches that support the operationalisation of these socio-political goals on a local level. This chapter introduces a destination resilience assessment methodology that uses a transdisciplinary research (TDR) approach to guide a process- oriented, locally contextualised and participatory resilience assessment. Drawing on evidence from three case study destinations in the Dominican Republic, Namibia and Sri Lanka, this study explores how TDR can give meaning to resilience building initiatives on a destination level. It advances resilience building from a practical and conceptual viewpoint by exploring the underlying conceptualisations of sustainability and resilience, by integrating system, target and transformative knowledge into the assessment and by critically reflecting potentials and limitations of using TDR for developing a locally meaningful resilience building strategy.
Abstract
Tourism destinations are increasingly confronted with complex, multifaceted and interconnected risks. Building resilience is an important step to address these risks and achieve sustainable development. While global frameworks serve a guiding function, the dynamic and adaptive nature of resilience requires innovative and transformative approaches that support the operationalisation of these socio-political goals on a local level. This chapter introduces a destination resilience assessment methodology that uses a transdisciplinary research (TDR) approach to guide a process- oriented, locally contextualised and participatory resilience assessment. Drawing on evidence from three case study destinations in the Dominican Republic, Namibia and Sri Lanka, this study explores how TDR can give meaning to resilience building initiatives on a destination level. It advances resilience building from a practical and conceptual viewpoint by exploring the underlying conceptualisations of sustainability and resilience, by integrating system, target and transformative knowledge into the assessment and by critically reflecting potentials and limitations of using TDR for developing a locally meaningful resilience building strategy.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword VII
- Preface IX
- Contents XI
- The Need to Engage with Destination Development 1
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Part I: Developing Competitive Destinations
- Tourism Destinations: Risk, Management and Communication 11
- Destination Competitiveness and AI-based Methods 33
- Change Management Approaches to Encounter Rural Overtourism 55
- Visitor Management in Tourism Destinations: Current Challenges in Measuring and Managing Visitors’ Spatio-Temporal Behaviour 81
- Supporting Economically and Socially Sustainable Destination Development through Branding: Opportunities and Challenges 105
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Part II: Developing Sustainable Destinations
- From Global Frameworks to Local Meanings: Assessing Resilience for Sustainable Destinations through the Lens of Transdisciplinary Research 127
- Destination Resilience in the Context of COVID-19 and Its Hysteretic Impact on the Tourism System of South Tyrol 149
- Local Participation for a Higher Commitment to Destination Development 173
- Residents’ Attitudes and Sustainable Destination Development: Introducing the Tourism Acceptance Score 197
- Dogs, Frogs and Degrowth: Sustainable Development and Arctification as a Destination Development Dilemma in Northern Sweden 219
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Part III: Developing Accessible Destinations
- Principles and Practices of Effective Inclusive Stakeholder Community Engagement 243
- The Role of Universal Design in the Future of Tourism Planning and Development 261
- Developing Social Sustainable Tourism for and with People with Hidden Disabilities: Reflections from Fyn, Denmark 287
- Tourism Promotional Materials: Examining the Intersections of Accessibility and Inclusion 309
- Inclusive Destination Management Strategies 333
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Part IV: Developing Future-Proof Destinations
- Business as Usual or Completely Different? COVID-19 and Its Influence on the Participation in Tourism of the German Population 361
- Beyond Overtourism, Undertourism, the End of Tourism: New Perspectives for Urban Tourism 381
- Flight and Migration in the Context of Destinations: Conceptional Approaches and Empirical Insights Based on the Repurposing of Tourist Accommodation as Accommodation for Refugees – Case Study Bavaria 405
- The Challenge of Climate Change and Net-Zero Emissions for Destinations 425
- Techno-Utopia or Techno-Dystopia: Current and Future Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence Developments in Destinations 453
- The Contribution of Academia to Destination Development 473
- List of Figures 483
- List of Tables 487
- List of Contributors 489
- Index 497
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Foreword VII
- Preface IX
- Contents XI
- The Need to Engage with Destination Development 1
-
Part I: Developing Competitive Destinations
- Tourism Destinations: Risk, Management and Communication 11
- Destination Competitiveness and AI-based Methods 33
- Change Management Approaches to Encounter Rural Overtourism 55
- Visitor Management in Tourism Destinations: Current Challenges in Measuring and Managing Visitors’ Spatio-Temporal Behaviour 81
- Supporting Economically and Socially Sustainable Destination Development through Branding: Opportunities and Challenges 105
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Part II: Developing Sustainable Destinations
- From Global Frameworks to Local Meanings: Assessing Resilience for Sustainable Destinations through the Lens of Transdisciplinary Research 127
- Destination Resilience in the Context of COVID-19 and Its Hysteretic Impact on the Tourism System of South Tyrol 149
- Local Participation for a Higher Commitment to Destination Development 173
- Residents’ Attitudes and Sustainable Destination Development: Introducing the Tourism Acceptance Score 197
- Dogs, Frogs and Degrowth: Sustainable Development and Arctification as a Destination Development Dilemma in Northern Sweden 219
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Part III: Developing Accessible Destinations
- Principles and Practices of Effective Inclusive Stakeholder Community Engagement 243
- The Role of Universal Design in the Future of Tourism Planning and Development 261
- Developing Social Sustainable Tourism for and with People with Hidden Disabilities: Reflections from Fyn, Denmark 287
- Tourism Promotional Materials: Examining the Intersections of Accessibility and Inclusion 309
- Inclusive Destination Management Strategies 333
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Part IV: Developing Future-Proof Destinations
- Business as Usual or Completely Different? COVID-19 and Its Influence on the Participation in Tourism of the German Population 361
- Beyond Overtourism, Undertourism, the End of Tourism: New Perspectives for Urban Tourism 381
- Flight and Migration in the Context of Destinations: Conceptional Approaches and Empirical Insights Based on the Repurposing of Tourist Accommodation as Accommodation for Refugees – Case Study Bavaria 405
- The Challenge of Climate Change and Net-Zero Emissions for Destinations 425
- Techno-Utopia or Techno-Dystopia: Current and Future Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence Developments in Destinations 453
- The Contribution of Academia to Destination Development 473
- List of Figures 483
- List of Tables 487
- List of Contributors 489
- Index 497