Knowledge and Tourism Development: Coping with Diversity
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Explore knowledge dynamics in tourism sector; focus on policy concerns, industry sectors, knowledge types and sites, and organizational strategies for development. From individual pleasure to organized package tourism, understanding diverse dynamics is key for sustainable growth.
Knowledge and Tourism Development: Coping with Diversity
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KNOWLEDGE AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT Coping with diversity Henrik Halkier Professor of Regional and Tourism Studies Aalborg University Denmark halkier@ihis.aau.dk http://www2.ihis.aau.dk/~halkier/
KNOWLEDGE AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT Coping with diversity Henrik Halkier Aalborg University Denmark halkier@ihis.aau.dk
KNOWLEDGE AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT Coping with diversity Henrik Halkier Aalborg University Denmark halkier@ihis.aau.dk
KNOWLEDGE AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT Coping with diversity Issues: Knowledge and tourism (and EURODITE) Conceptualising knowledge dynamics Knowledge, public policy, and tourism diversity http://www2.ihis.aau.dk/~halkier/
KNOWLEDGE, TOURISM (and EURODITE) Policy concerns • EU Lisbon strategy in practice: high-tech, big-science ? • cluster-mania in policy communities across Europe EURODITE 2005-2010 • network researching regional knowledge dynamics • focus on seven selected sectors, including tourism • sectoral / territorial knowledge dynamics • firm-level case studies
CONCEPTUALISING KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICS • knowledge types: different truth criteria • analytical, synthetic, symbolic • knowledge phases: purpose of activity • exploration, examination, exploitation • knowledge sites: location • explicit, complicit, implicit • individual, collective • knowledge processes: drivers, strategies, institutions • regulation, markets, networks, corporate objectives • organisational, professional, markets, products/processes
On-site services • accommodation • catering • transport • Travel services • commercial • infrastructural • On-site activities • prescribed/voluntary • non-/commercial FROM TOURISM TO TOURISMS Market intelligence Conception/ design / marketing Production /consumption Consumption monitoring
INDIVIDUAL PLEASURE: DESTINATION TOURISM Market intelligence (Inter)national chains SMEs Promotional bodies Conception/ design / marketing (Budget) airlines Public/private providers Promotional bodies Targeted tourists • On-site services • hotels/B&Bs • rentals/campsites • restaurants, shops • car hire Production /consumption • Travel services • flights • roads • On-site activities • voluntary, attractions • cultural/natural Consumption monitoring
INDIVIDUAL PLEASURE: DESTINATION TOURISM Destination SMEs Hotel chains Airlines
Market intelligence TOUR OPERATORS Subcontractors in transport/accommodation Conception/ design / marketing Tour operators Public/private providers Promotional bodies Targeted tourists • On-site services • hotels • restaurants, shops • car hire Production /consumption • Travel services • flights • roads • On-site activities • voluntary, excursions • 4 Ss (sun, sex,...) • attractions Consumption monitoring ORGANISED PLEASURE: PACKAGE TOURISM
KNOWLEDGE SITESIN TOURISM Complicit Formal/informal networks Package holidays Hotel chains Airlines Destination SMEs
KNOWLEDGE DYNAMICSISSUES IN TOURISM Intersection of tourisms • expectation of different knowledge dynamics • degree of coexistence within localities/regions/nations • some actors involved in different tourisms • a challenge for schizophrenic public policies • ... and for EURODITE case studies • diverse dynamics and their interaction