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Author : Dani Blasco, Jaume Guia & Lluís Prats
School/Work Place : University of Girona, Spain
Contact : jaume.guia@udg.edu
Year : 2014

It is well recognized that the local borders of a tourism destination are not easy to delineate as they are constantly changing through complex practices and discourses due to historical, political, and economic factors. In fact, recent studies suggest that actual tourism destinations should be delimited on the basis of tourists’ consumption patterns, instead of on conventional administrative boundaries (Blasco, Guia & Prats, 2014). This is particularly so in places where local destinations lie on the border of their countries, where there is easy access to and from the cross‐border neighbouring destinations, and there is the added value of the cross‐border experience for visitors.

It is argued that the particular location of regions with such conditions calls for an integrated governance of the cross‐border destination as a whole. However, achieving collaboration has proved to be a problematic process due to differences in interests among stakeholders and their changing dynamics. In this context, some historical studies on the development of local tourism organisations have helped to gain insight into their genesis and managerial implications (Beaumont & Dredge, 2010; Dredge, 1999, 2001, 2006; Dredge and Pfor, 2008; Reed, 1999).

There is, though, little knowledge of local governance in cross‐border Settings (Timothy, 2001). We aim thus at gaining further understanding of the processes through which crossborder destinations relational structures emerge. Firstly, by way of a case study, we seek to describe the processes through which networks emerge and shape opportunities and constraints for cross‐border integrated governance at the local level. We also seek to find the main elements that either foster, or constrain both the initiation and consolidation of shared cross‐border managerial structures in this type of destination.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
254 Think Tank VIII Tourism Professionals’ Attitudes towards Climate Chang... file 5423 Oct 13, 2013

This paper discusses three aspects of the interrelationship between tourism and climate change: the perception of the problems related to global warming by tourism professionals, their suggestions concerning possible actions that can be tak...

Author: Xavier Matteucci & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher 

Year: 2008 

253 Think Tank XIV The Prospects for Sustainable Tourism in Vanuatu in th... file 5433 Jun 26, 2014

This paper explores the feasibility for Vanuatu of implementing several key international recommendations for policy-makers for the sustainable development (SD) of national tourism sectors (UNEP-WTO, 2005). It shows that the remarkable fragm...

Author: Valentina Dinica 

Year: 2014 

252 Think Tank VII Innovative Technologies in Travel and Tourism - Toward... file 5470 Oct 13, 2013

While it seems to be gradually dawning on humankind that the quality of our lives and (in extremis)survival of our and subsequent generations will depend to a significant extent on our ability and willingness to make urgent and significant ...

Author: Ivo Martinac 

Year: 2007 

251 Think Tank XV Lifelong learning for guiding and interpretation file 5505 Jul 27, 2015

Scholarship on guiding and interpretation positions formal training as a central factor in guide instruction. Guide training operates in the area that mediates between personal characteristics, attitudes and knowledge of the guides and what ...

Author: Julia N. Albrecht & Trisha Dwyer 

Year: 2015 

250 Think Tank VI National Park as a Social Corporation file 5536 Oct 13, 2013

The issue is discussed how authorities of National Parks that aim to preserve biosphere can enlarge income. A review indicates that many Parks generate high income from tourism. A Dutch case illustrates that one can find sustainable innovat...

Author: Yoram Krozer & Else Christensen-Redzepovic 

Year: 2006 

249 Think Tank XIII Assessing Community Quality of Life in the Context of ... file 5547 Nov 06, 2013

One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However...

Author: Chia-Pin Simo Yu, Shu Tian Cole & H. Charles Chancellor 

Year: 2013 

248 Think Tank VII Thematic Analysis of Sustainable Tourism and the Tripl... file 5564 Oct 13, 2013

The relationship between the themes in sustainable tourism publications and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was explored in this article. A categorised list of 3719 sustainable tourism articles was thematically analysed to determine the conten...

Author: Michael Hughes & Jack Carlsen 

Year: 2007 

247 Think Tank XV Environmental beliefs and feelings toward nature among... file 5564 Jul 27, 2015

Tourists are often depicted as irresponsible consumers, with mass tourism being linked to extensive consumerism in society (Sharpley, 2012; Singh, 2012)and tourists as consumers are part of the “culture-ideology of consumerism” (Higgins-Desb...

Author: Elizabeth Ann Kruger 

Year: 2015 

246 Think Tank XII Does Migration Have a Bigger Impact on VFR than Total ... file 5580 Nov 06, 2013

As an important global market by purpose of travel, visiting friends and relatives, VFR, is closely associated with the history and development of international migration patterns which are a more permanent form of travel. Further, the impor...

Author: Larry Dwyer, Neelu Seetaram, Peter Forsyth & Brian King 

Year: 2012 

245 Think Tank XII Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study... file 5623 Nov 06, 2013

This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Au...

Author: Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin 

Year: 2012 

244 Think Tank IV Sustainable Tourism and Innovation in Mobile Tourism S... file 5627 Oct 13, 2013

This paper presents a joint public and private sector research project entitled Mobile Digital City and Nature Walks - the development of content and software for a mobile tourism device. Focusing on sustainable tourism, marketing and innova...

Author: Janne J. Liburd 

Year: 2004 

243 Think Tank XII The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu... file 5636 Nov 06, 2013

The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an...

Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson 

Year: 2012 

242 Think Tank XII Civic Tourism, Environmental Art and Tourism Mobility:... file 5641 Nov 06, 2013

For several decades the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created and installed art all over the world. Their art projects are large scale, temporary, and outdoor-environment inspired, and usually involve woven fabric that is suspended ...

Author: Diane Gaede & James Gould 

Year: 2012 

241 Think Tank VIII Assessing Whose Quality of Life: A Critical Examinatio... file 5666 Oct 13, 2013

Almost all the academic literature on tourism impacts has focussed on the consequences of tourism for the destination and its residents. Very little attention has been paid to the impacts of tourism on tourists. Virtually all cost-benefit an...

Author: Gianna Moscardo 

Year: 2008 

240 Think Tank V Analysing the Risk of Drowning at Surf Beaches file 5706 Oct 13, 2013

Surf beach drowning is an example of a tourist injury problem in Australia. In this paper, a process is outlined to identify and tease out the roles and relationships among causal risk factors, markers of risk, and components of risk exposur...

Author: Damian Morgan 

Year: 2005 

239 Think Tank IX Using Social and Political Values to Assess Host Commu... file 5744 Oct 13, 2013

Tourism, like any other endeavour, operates within the social and political domains of a community, and it is therefore likely that residents with different social and political values would hold different representations of tourism. In the ...

Author: Margaret Deery, Leo Jago & Liz Fredline 

Year: 2009 

238 Think Tank VII A Community of Heroes file 5760 Oct 13, 2013

Sense of place is the human response to natural and built surroundings, geography, history and population. Over time, that response evolves into a shared consciousness, woven by memory, story and experience. Distinct from written history, th...

Author: Regina Binder 

Year: 2007 

237 Think Tank IV The Benefits of Visitor and Non-Visitor Research in th... file 5779 Oct 13, 2013

Our premise in this paper is that if sustainable tourism development and management is to meet the needs of both the present and the future then it is equally important to prioritise research on those who visit tourism destinations (and incl...

Author: Pat Sterry & Debra Leighton 

Year: 2004 

236 Think Tank XIV Sustainable Tourism Mobility: Recommended Strategies f... file 5784 Jun 26, 2014

Transport is a vital and integral component of the tourism system yet it contributes the most emissions in tourism (Dubois, Peeters, Ceron, & Gössling, 2011; Peeters & Dubois, 2010). In line with the global concerns for sustainabilit...

Author: Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn 

Year: 2014 

235 Think Tank XIV Heritage Trails through Dolenjska and Bela krajina in ... file 5787 Jun 26, 2014

One of the beneficial methodologies for growing and developing a level of tourism which is sustainable and enhances the totality of local and regional environments is a multi-stakeholder approach to tourism development. In this paper, we pre...

Author: Marko Koscak 

Year: 2014 

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