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Table 9.3: Tourism planning approaches:
assumptions, problem definition, methods and
models
Planning
tradition
Underlying assumptions
and related attitudes
Definition of the
tourism planning
problem
Some examples
of related
methods
Some
examples of
related
models
Boosterism
• tourism is inherently good •
how many tourists
can be attracted
and
accommodated?
• promotion
• demand
forecasting
models
• tourism should be
developed
• public relations
• cultural and natural
resources
• advertising
should be exploited
how can obstacles
be overcome?
• growth targets
• industry as expert
• development defined in
business/corporate terms
• convincing hosts
to be good to
tourists
Economic
tourism equal to other
industries
can tourism be
used as a growth
pole?
• supply-demand
analysis
• management
processes
• benefit-cost
analysis
• tourism
master plans
use tourism to create
employment, earn foreign
revenue and improve terms
of trade, encourage
regional development,
overcome regional
economic disparities
maximisation of
income and
employment
multipliers
• product-market
matching
• motivation
• development
incentives
• economic
impact
• influencing
consumer choice
•market
segmentation
• economic
multipliers
providing
economic values
for externalities
• hedonistic
pricing
providing
economic values
for conservation
purposes
• planner as expert
• development defined in
economic terms
Physical/spatial • tourism as a resource user • physical carrying
capacity
• ecological
studies
• spatial
patterns and
processes
ecological basis to
development
manipulating
travel patterns and
visitor flows
environmental
impact
assessment
• physical
impacts
•resort
morphology
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