Self-organisation in tourism planning: complex dynamics of planning, policy-making, and tourism governance in Santa Elena, Ecuador
- Authors
- Ricaurte Quijano, Carla Valeria
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
La investigaci?n tiene como objetivo explorar la aplicaci?n de la teor?a de sistemas complejos para la comprensi?n de formas loales auto organizaci?n en la planificaci?n y gobernanza de destinos tur?sticos. Se investigaron roles y mecanismos de interacci?n social de diferentes actores sociales del turismo en la pen?nsula de Santa Elena, as? como iniciativas locales de auto organizaci?n, soluci?n de problemas y toma de decisiones que podr?an mejorar la gobernanza y el funcionamiento del sistema tur?stico provincial. /This research explores the dynamic interplay between self-organised tourism planning and formal, linear and institutionalised tourism governance structures in the Santa Elena province, Ecuador. Complexity theory provides a framework and a language to understand actor-led, non-linear, bottom-up, and highly contextualised self-organised planning efforts that can change the future of tourism destinations amidst unstable and changing tourism governance conditions. For the purpose of this research, the tourism destination was understood as a complex socio-political system resultant from the interactions between tourism stakeholders. In the destination, the instability of the political landscape together with lack of ties among groups of social actors, and the low implementation of tourism plans provided the context in which key social actors self-organised to steer the tourism system. Critical realism, as the philosophical position and a single embedded case study as the research strategy, allowed the identification of three layers of analysis within the destination?s tourism system, each one involving different but overlapping methods of data collection and interpretation.
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- GOBERNANZA DEL TURISMO
POL?TICAS P?BLICAS
POL?TICAS TUR?STICAS
AUTOORGANIZACI?N
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- openAccess