This week’s topics
Approaches to Tourism Policy Formulation
- Top-down versus bottom-up policy models
- Institutional and public choice theory
- Power dynamics and interest group lobbying
- Participatory policy frameworks
- Citizen Lobbying: Find your voice to create a better society by Alberto Alemanno
- Actor and Strategy Models (Course Sample) – Multi-stakeholder Strategies Online Course
- Citizen Participation in City Politics
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Critically evaluate the different approaches that can be taken to tourism policy.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically evaluate the different approaches that can be taken to tourism policy.
Study materials
Videos
- Citizen Lobbying: Find your voice to create a better society by Alberto Alemanno · YouTube · HEC Paris · 5 min · for registered students
- Actor and Strategy Models (Course Sample) – Multi-stakeholder Strategies Online Course · YouTube · TU Delft · 6 min · for registered students
- Citizen Participation in City Politics · YouTube · TU Delft · 5 min · for registered students
- Ministerial Segment – Implementing innovative policy and governance models for cultural tourism · YouTube · UN Tourism · 118 min · for registered students
- How participatory approaches worked in the set-up of the Monitoring Centre in the Batanes Islands · YouTube · UN Tourism · 20 min · for registered students
Further resources
- OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2024 — whole report · PDF · Oecd, report; 353 pages · for registered students
- Transition Pathway for Tourism (European Commission, 2022) · Reading · Eu, report · for registered students
- Tourism: The International Business (Mill, 2010), ch. 7: The planning of tourism · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 150–161 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
