Tourism and Governance

Dianne Dredge ()
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Dianne Dredge: Aalborg University, AAU-Copenhagen

Chapter Chapter 5 in Education for Sustainability in Tourism, 2015, pp 75-90 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses tourism education for sustainability with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with preparing students to work within complex tourism governance settings. It takes the position that the development of tourism within a sustainability framework requires that tourism professionals effectively engage in dynamic social discourses where difficult trade-offs are made between competing demands. The challenge for tourism education is therefore to prepare graduates to work in these complex, value-laden, socio-political environments where they can proactively and positively contribute to developing forms of tourism that progress the objectives of sustainable development. This chapter explores this challenge in terms of a philosophic tourism practitioner education, and in doing so, discusses three key dimensions of this education: historical antecedents and contemporary knowledge and understandings of governance; competencies for tourism governance for sustainability; and ethical action-oriented practice.

Keywords: Tourism; Governance; Philosophic practitioner; Ship of the state; Sustainability; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-47470-9_5

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