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Regional Tourism Networks and Social-Environmental Wellbeing in Rural Coastal Communities /

2 Feb 2016

Current tourism network building and collaboration is focused at the local and provincial scales, among the tourism sector and government agencies, despite the national and global reach of tourism markets. [...] Regional Tourism Networks and Social-Environmental Wellbeing in Rural Coastal Communities 5 Introduction Tourism development brings economic, social, and cultural benefits to rural coastal communities, including employment, skills development and community embeddedness, the preservation of tangible and intangible heritage, the protection of local environments, and a sense of community identity. [...] Our research examines tourism sector participants’ perceptions of the industry as a form of regional development, helping us to better understand the factors that facilitate or work against regional tourism network-building in four regions of Newfoundland and Labrador: Bonne Bay, the Burin Peninsula, the Labrador Straits, and the Northern Peninsula. [...] In our Bonne Bay focus group discussions, we also learned of several “challenges of success” that are specific to this region, including the need for increased housing for tourism employees, the need to shift perceptions of tourism as a viable career avenue for youth, and the need to adopt a more visitor- centric approach to envisioning the future tourism market for the area. [...] Our data point to a “collaboration gap” between the perceived value of network building for tourism development, and the challenges of engaging in the day-to-day practices of collaboration and network building.
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45
Published in
St. John's, NL, CA

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