Part III: Developing Accessible Destinations
Principles and Practices of Effective Inclusive Stakeholder Community Engagement
Abstract
In this chapter, we present the case that, to be inclusive and accessible, tourism destination management requires important (re)consideration of the processes used to involve community stakeholders in the tourism planning process. Whilst the importance of community collaboration is frequently heralded in tourism destination management, traditional community engagement tends to involve an organisational-centric approach, positioning the research/practitioner as expert and adopting one-way consultation methods for working with stakeholders. To achieve accessible ...
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