Golf tourism development, stakeholders, differing discourses and alternative agendas: the case of Malta
✍ Scribed by Marion C Markwick
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 266 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0261-5177
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✦ Synopsis
As one of the most rapidly expanding types of extensive land-use, golf course development has often attracted controversy when proposed as a policy to promote special-interest tourism. Malta is an extreme case in which such con#icts have arisen, being one of the world's most densely populated countries and having limited land and water resources. Focusing on the disputes arising from Malta's golf development proposals, this paper examines stakeholders' arguments in the context of contemporary concerns about sustainability. Using interview narratives and newspaper reports, the paper unpacks the di!erent discourses involved to reveal some surprising collaboration as well as con#ict. The paper points to the di$culties of generalised conceptualisation of such development con#icts, suggesting stakeholder mapping of power-interest matrices as a way forward by which tourism scholars and managers may interpret the complex relationships involved.