Progress in tourism planning and policy: A post-structural perspective on knowledge production Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This paper examines progress in tourism planning and policy knowledge and identifies gaps and future directions for research. The study employs a post-structuralist perspective presented in two analytical movements: a bibliographic study of tourism policy and planning publications in Scopus and Science Direct and thematic analysis, plus an archaeological excavation. This combined approach pays attention to the disruptions, silences and diversity of knowledge in tourism policy and planning. It highlights the way tourism planning and policy has been problematized and reveals the social regularities shaping the production of tourism planning and policy knowledge. Multi-disciplinary, mainstream subjects related to destination development and management dominate while critical analysis of economic and political structures, interests and values is lagging. The results point to an urgent need to progress tourism planning and policy towards greater visibility, legitimacy and importance in tourism studies through more critical engagement with tourism public policy and planning practice.

authors

• Jamal, Tazim

published proceedings

• Tourism Management

author list (cited authors)

• Dredge, D., & Jamal, T.

citation count

• 145

complete list of authors

• Dredge, Dianne||Jamal, Tazim

publication date

• January 2015

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Tourism Management: research, policies, practice  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.06.002

start page

• 285

end page

• 297

volume

• 51

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2015.06.002