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The practicalities of a Learning Tourism Destination: a case study of the Ningaloo Coast

✍ Scribed by Karin Schianetz; Tod Jones; Lydia Kavanagh; Paul A. Walker; David Lockington; David Wood

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 175 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 1099-2340
DOI: 10.1002/jtr.729

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Abstract

The complex and dynamic nature of tourism, and the need to address triple bottom line sustainability, has encouraged a search for adaptive tourism management approaches based on organisational learning. In this paper, the authors discuss a practical approach for the implementation of a Learning Tourism Destination (LTD), a new concept derived from the theory of learning organisations. Preliminary results from a case study undertaken at the Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia are discussed. The conducted surveys indicate that the LTD forms a useful framework for fostering consensus building, dialogue and collective learning processes among stakeholders. The proposed approach has the potential to improve decision‐making within the concept of sustainable tourism development by facilitating participative planning processes. The overall strategy of this paper is to explore the practicalities of the LTD implementation process, and to spark further conceptual and practical debate, based on the analysis of the Ningaloo case study. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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