Can Community Action Groups Produce Structural Change in the Blue Mountains Tourism Industry?

1995 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIZA TONKIN
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Blue Mountains ◽  
Action Groups

scholarly journals Promoting Low-Carbon Tourism through Adaptive Regional Certification

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Alex Baumber ◽  
John Merson ◽  
Chris Lockhart Smith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Blue Mountains ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Impact

Climate change is a key issue in sustainable tourism, both in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the tourism sector and the potential impacts of climate change on tourism-dependent regions. Low-carbon tourism is an emerging paradigm based around emissions reduction by tourism businesses, as well as broader values of adaptation, transition and behavioral change. This article presents the results of a low-carbon tourism case study in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, where the Low-Carbon Living Program has successfully designed and implemented a low-carbon rating and certification scheme. This scheme covers emissions related to energy, waste and water and is based on regionally-specific data. The program has also succeeded in its aim of using the tourism industry as a catalyst for broader community action, having been expanded to schools and retailers in the case study region. A transferable regional model has been developed that is being adapted for use in new regions under a modular and decentralised program structure. However, questions remain around the impact of the program on participants’ carbon footprints and customer levels over time, as well as the suitability of a common scorecard system to diverse participant types.

scholarly journals Fundamental study on development of the analysis method for role structure on community action groups

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-364
Author(s):  
Yusuke Yabutani ◽  
Akio Shiino ◽  
Masaya Saito ◽  
Koichiro Kakiyama ◽  
Hiroshi Nakahara
Keyword(s):  
Community Action ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Fundamental Study ◽  
Role Structure ◽  
Action Groups

The Fight to Preserve Local Control

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Local Control ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Local People ◽  
Community Action Agencies ◽  
Action Groups

This chapter discusses the Office of Economic Opportunity’s shift away from local ideas. This primarily entailed OEO funding fewer projects originating from local people and instead pushing national emphasis programs, such as Head Start, designed by federal officials. Although congressional cuts to OEO’s budget in 1967 played a role, the federal campaign to standardize the types of programs within the nation’s Community Action Agencies was perhaps more in response to other factors. For one, there was growing congressional disapproval for the controversial (and sometimes violent) direction of some local community action groups. Additionally, there was a continuing belief within OEO that national-emphasis programs would be more effective in reaching those most in need than were programs conceived by local people, most of whom were not poor themselves.

Growing degrowth-oriented tourism? CSR certified tour operators as change agents.

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
Sabine Panzer-Krause
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
Audit Reports ◽  
Corporate Social

Abstract This chapter acknowledges the substantial role tour operators play in the tourism industry as intermediaries bundling different individual tourism offerings together. The study adopts an evolutionary approach through the analyses of tour operators' sustainability and audit reports and investigates whether German tour operators who have gained the corporate social responsibility (CSR) certification 'TourCert' have the potential to act as change agents, upscale the downscaling idea of degrowth and contribute to a reformist pathway of structural change. The findings reveal that CSR certification schemes do not seem to genuinely foster the restructuring of the tourism market within the capitalist system, but can only marginally advocate and diffuse certain elements of degrowth-oriented tourism. At the same time, CSR certification schemes lack the influence necessary for a paradigm shift and for this reason the approach of degrowth-oriented tourism seems unsuitable for mainstream application.

Coastlines, Cags and Communications

2008 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Johnston ◽  
Steve Gration
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
New South ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Australian Coastline ◽  
Action Groups

This paper layers communication theory over a cultural context by examining how Community Action Groups (CAGs) have responded to development along Australian coastlines. It analyses how communication and media strategies and techniques have been adopted by the third sector to challenge commercial and government organisations which have proposed coastal development. As noted by Huntsman (2001): ‘It is this appropriation of the beach for the purposes of capitalism, and the contesting ideas about the beach that have captured the attention of critics.’ Indeed these critics, who in this paper are members of strategic alliances, or CAGs, exist all along the Australian coastline. The paper seeks to highlight how the connections that are felt with Australia's coasts provide a special impetus and motivation for CAGs which have emerged in response to development along Australia's coasts, from Western Australia to New South Wales and Queensland.

A Structural View of Tourism Growth

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egon Smeral
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Durable Goods ◽  
Income Elasticity ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Growth Effect ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Demand Effect ◽  
Tourism Services

Structural factors are important when it comes to explaining tourism growth. In this connection, crucial roles are played by structural change in demand and differentials between productivity in tourism and in manufacturing. The demand factor stimulates the rise of tourism demand and explains why tourism grows faster than the global economy as such or why the income elasticity is above 1: tourism is a luxury good, and structural change in demand is a key factor in analysing its development. Once saturation has been achieved in basic needs and durable goods, a growing economy has more money left to spend on, first, leisure and tourism services and, secondly, knowledge-based goods and services. In contrast to manufacturing, opportunities to increase productivity are limited in the tourism industry. Because there are fewer options for rationalization, tourism services become more expensive in the long term than manufactured goods or other services, and this weakens the demand-triggered growth effect. Nevertheless, in sum the demand effect is stronger than the productivity disadvantages. As a side-effect of the productivity disadvantages and the demand effect, employment grows as a share of total employment in the hotel and restaurant industry, the core segments of the tourism business.

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