Tourism planning: a perspective paper
ISSN: 1660-5373
Article publication date: 19 December 2019
Issue publication date: 20 February 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyse past tourism planning and discuss how it is going to evolve in the future.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on literature review, but it also advances a model for future tourism planning.
Findings
The paper demonstrates that there is a strong need for tourism planning to be carried out with close links between territorial planning and its economics and management.
Research limitations/implications
The paper is not based on primary data collection.
Practical implications
The paper is useful for planners, academics and practitioners. It shows how a new planning model may be put in practice in the future.
Social implications
By linking physical and economic planning, the paper has good management implications to involve people and make them benefit from tourism.
Originality/value
Most tourism models fail to associate physical and economic planning, while this paper brings an innovative perspective of doing this.
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Citation
Costa, C. (2020), "Tourism planning: a perspective paper", Tourism Review, Vol. 75 No. 1, pp. 198-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/TR-09-2019-0394
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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