TY - JOUR
T1 - Rural tourism governance
T2 - determinants of policy-makers’ support for tourism development
AU - Panyik, Emese
N1 - Funding Information:
This is particularly important considering that the LAGs represent considerable potential for tourism development, primarily by the harmonisation of the diverse state and European funds. As Wanhill (1997) notes, the most important financial support of the EU arises not from specific tourism-related policies, but rather from mainstream instruments such as the European Regional Development Fund of the Structural Funds and the EAFRD of the Common Agricultural Policy. Perhaps, the main issue of the present European tourism policy is inadequate policy coordination manifesting in discordant regulatory frameworks across tourism-related areas such as accommodation policy, conservation policy and cross-border cooperation, which often hinders tourism initiatives (Costa, Panyik, & Buhalis, 2013). Thus, tourism could profit the most by making further adjustments to the development priorities of these funds not only at the national but at the regional and local levels as well. Within this context, the potential hold by these organisations rests in their pivotal role in policy coordination at the most immediate level of development and in their ability to produce critical information in the design of regional tourism policies related to funding and tendering opportunities.
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PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - Governance is now generally accepted as a convenient conceptual term to characterise contemporary patterns of collective decision-making, particularly in the local public domain. However, there is a dearth of research into the attitudes of rural governance policy-makers towards tourism, despite the influence of the local rural policy arena on tourism development in rural areas. In order to fill this gap, this research aims to explore governance factors that influence rural decision-makers’ support for tourism. A cross-sectional field survey was designed and applied on the LEADER1 network in Hungary and analysed by multivariate data analysis methods. Results highlighted differences in the preferences of local planners regarding the dimensions of integrated rural tourism (IRT). In particular, findings suggest that local rural planners favour those qualities of IRT that enhance complementarity, sustainability, stakeholder and sectoral integration over the scale of IRT.
AB - Governance is now generally accepted as a convenient conceptual term to characterise contemporary patterns of collective decision-making, particularly in the local public domain. However, there is a dearth of research into the attitudes of rural governance policy-makers towards tourism, despite the influence of the local rural policy arena on tourism development in rural areas. In order to fill this gap, this research aims to explore governance factors that influence rural decision-makers’ support for tourism. A cross-sectional field survey was designed and applied on the LEADER1 network in Hungary and analysed by multivariate data analysis methods. Results highlighted differences in the preferences of local planners regarding the dimensions of integrated rural tourism (IRT). In particular, findings suggest that local rural planners favour those qualities of IRT that enhance complementarity, sustainability, stakeholder and sectoral integration over the scale of IRT.
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U2 - 10.1080/21568316.2014.960603
DO - 10.1080/21568316.2014.960603
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84911988823
SN - 2156-8316
VL - 12
SP - 48
EP - 72
JO - Tourism Planning and Development
JF - Tourism Planning and Development
IS - 1
ER -
