Trust, Tourism Development and Planning

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The dynamics of trust and distrust are central to understanding modern society, social relations and development processes. This book for the first time situates trust within the context of tourism development and planning. It theoretically explores the relationship by reviewing how diminishing societal trust may have adversely affected tourism planning systems, the role of trust in good tourism governance and sustainable tourism, how trust can be used as a facilitator of participatory tourism planning, political trust in tourism institutions, power and how tourism development can be a basis for trust creation among society members by using social capital theory. N° de ref. del artículo 9780415826013

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Robin Nunkoo is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Management, University of Mauritius. His research draws widely from political science and uses a political economy approach to investigate the interplay between citizens' trust (distrust) in government (and institutions), and power issues in development and political support for development and government policies. He is further interested in citizens' support for tourism development and the factors influencing such support.

Stephen Smith is Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests include economic impacts of tourism, tourism policy and visitor profiles.