1st Edition

Critical Issues in Tourism Co-Creation

Edited By Giang Thi Phi, Dianne Dredge Copyright 2021
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

Co-creation is fast becoming a buzz word in tourism. Traditional approaches to value creation in tourism suggest that operators and suppliers produce goods and services which are consumed by tourists. The value produced is usually measured in economic terms. Co-creation challenges these assumptions, arguing that tourism producers and consumers co-create value together and that this value is more... Read more

Introduction: Critical issues in tourism co-creation

Giang T. Phi and Dianne Dredge

1. Collaborative tourism-making: an interdisciplinary review of co-creation and a future research agenda

Giang T. Phi and Dianne Dredge

2. Wildlife tourism through the co-creation lens

Giovanna Bertella, M. Fumagalli and V. Williams-Grey

3. Co-creating knowledge in tourism research using the Ketso method

Yana Wengel, Alison McIntosh and Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten

4. Co-creating an integrated curriculum alongside community partners: a creative analytic approach

Karla Boluk, Meghan Muldoon and Corey Johnson

5. Student living labs as innovation arenas for sustainable tourism

Eva Maria Jernsand

6. ‘Dig where you stand’: values-based co-creation through improvisation

José-Carlos García-Rosell, Minni Haanpää and Jenny Janhunen

7. The co-creation of diverse values and paradigms in small values-based tourism firms

Lucia Tomassini

8. The changing face of the tour guide: one-way communicator to choreographer to co-creator of the tourist experience

Betty Weiler and Rosemary Black

Biography

Giang Thi Phi is currently a researcher at the Hospitality and Tourism Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Duy Tan University, Danang, Vietnam. Giang holds a PhD in Tourism Management from Griffith University, Australia and researches in the areas of event and tourism, social entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable development. In 2020, Giang organised the first TEFI Walking Workshop in Vietnam to explore pathways for a School of Community-benefit Tourism & Social Entrepreneurship.

Dianne Dredge is Director of The Tourism CoLab, professor, entrepreneur and an internationally recognised thought-leader. She works with business, communities and governments to co-create solutions for more sustainable, inclusive and regenerative tourism futures. Dianne is an environmental planner, with higher degrees in tourism, regional development and organisational change.