1st Edition

Tourism Interventions Making or Breaking Places

276 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together in one volume, the various types of interventions that can steer tourism towards positive impacts (and/or prevent negative impacts) on the destinations where tourism is taking place. Interventions in tourism studies have been viewed primarily as ‘public interventions’ and mainly in the sphere of public policies, planning, and development. This book, however, adopts... Read more

1 Introduction

Rami k. Isaac, Jeroen Na Wijn, Jelena Farkić, and Jeroen Klijs

PART I The Concept, Practices, and Realities of Tourism Interventions

2 Promoting Tourists’ Responsible Behaviour Through Nudges: A Systematic Literature Review

Viola Ammesdoerfer, Bartolomé Deyà-Tortella, and Sofía López‑Rodríguez

3 Differences That Make a Difference: Placemaking Through Imaging and Imagination

Marc Boumeester

4 Intervention(s) for Island Community Survival Through Tourism: The Case of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory

Richard R. Butler

5 Commodifying Landscape to Conserve It? The Politics of Highest and Best Use of Land in Indonesian UNESCO Geoparks

Rucitarahma Ristiawan, Edward Huijbens, and Karin Peters

PART II Cutting‑Edge Tourism Interventions

6 Artistic Cartographies and Place‑based Service Design for Making Places

Ella Björn and Satu Miettinen

7 The Tension is Rising: Storytelling as an Intervention

Ondrej Mitas, Juriaan Van Waalwijk, Bertine Bargeman, Licia Calvi, Lotte Van Esch, Moniek Hover, Wilco Boode, and Marcel Bastiaansen

8 Tourism Interventions: Contributions to Community Resilience

Simone Moretti

9 The Urban Leisure and Tourism Labs as Incubators for Sustainable Tourism Interventions: Sharing Insights from Educational Research Perspectives on Regenerative Placemaking in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

Roos Gerritsma and Donagh Horgan

10 The Role of Participatory Approaches in Developing Future Perspectives: Reconversion of St Godelina’s Abbey, Bruges

Bart Neuts, Steven Valcke, Clio Lambrechts, Vincent Nijs, and Jan Van Praet

11 Murals as Creative Placemaking Interventions: The Case of Blind Walls Gallery Breda, The Netherlands

Marisa P. De Brit O, Licia Calvi, Kristel Zegers, Josefien Boor, and Emma Braam

PART III Critical Analysis of Interventions as a Steppingstone for Future Success

12 Economic Impact of Niche‑based Tourism: Case Study of Off‑Highway Vehicle (OHV) Recreation

Eunhye Grace Kim and Deepak Chhabra

13 Interventions in the Tourism Market: Challenges, Opportunities and the Moral Limits of the Tourism Market

Can-Seng Ooi and Alberte Tøttenborg

14 The Challenge Contains the Solution: Designing Effective Tourism Development Interventions

Martine Bakker

15 Policy Failures, Action and Implementation Gaps, and Non‑Policy in Tourism: A Critical Appraisal

Alberto Amore and C. Michael Hall

16 Two Faces of the Adriatic Pearl: The Leader in Overtourism and Sustainability

Tina Šegota

PART IV Conclusion

17 Reflections and Future Perspectives on Tourism Interventions

Jeroen Nawijn, Jelena Farkić, Jeroen Klijs, and Rami K. Isaac

Biography

Rami K. Isaac is Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the Academy for Tourism, member of the Research Group Tourism Impacts on Society, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands and Vice‑President of the Research Committee 50 on International Tourism, International Sociologist Association ISA (2014–2025).

Jeroen Nawijn is Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the Academy for Tourism, member of the Research Group Tourism Impacts on Society, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.

Jelena Farkić is Lecturer in Tourism at the Academy for Tourism, member of the Research Group Tourism Impacts on Society Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.

Jeroen Klijs is Professor of Tourism at the Academy for Tourism, Research Group Tourism Impacts on Society, Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands and leads the Research Group Tourism Impacts on Society.

"This fertile, innovative text is a new interpretation of the transformative impact that tourism has on place and that place has on tourism. It is a re-imagination of place through art and science, and therefore, should be essential reading for anyone interested in seeing how this interdisciplinary concept has been pushed into new touristic frontiers." 

-David A. Fennell, Professor, Dept of Geography & Tourism Studies, Brock University, Canada.

"Tourism Interventions: Making or Breaking Places goes beyond simply exposing the benefits and costs of tourism growth and development by documenting some of the ways in which interventions by any of tourism’s key stakeholders enhance the positive impacts while alleviating its negative ones on destinations. Broadly understood as a policy, a strategy, action, event, business idea, collaboration, or partnership, interventions are not always successful, and these rarely discussed failures are also captured through case studies." 

-Marion Joppe, Distinguished Professor Emerita, School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management, University of Guelph, Canada.