Smart Citizens, Wise Decisions

2019 ◽  
pp. 974-997
Author(s):  
Maria de Lurdes Calisto ◽  
Ana Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter takes as its research starting point a critical and convergent review and reexamination of existing theory and knowledge about entrepreneurship and sustainability. We question whether smart cities provide the ideal context for sustainability entrepreneurship (SE) to emerge and how sustainability-driven entrepreneurs can contribute to the development of smarter and more sustainable tourism destinations. Hence, we examine SE tourism and hospitality businesses implemented by these so-called ‘smart citizens' in Lisbon (Portugal), a city that arguably provides the necessary context for smart decisions to flourish. This chapter thus aims at opening up new modes of inquiry and questioning existing epistemologies on the study of smart cities and entrepreneurship that help breaking new ground about the role of entrepreneurs in the tourism activity.

Smart Citizens, Wise Decisions

2017 ◽  
pp. 20-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria de Lurdes Calisto ◽  
Ana Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter takes as its research starting point a critical and convergent review and reexamination of existing theory and knowledge about entrepreneurship and sustainability. We question whether smart cities provide the ideal context for sustainability entrepreneurship (SE) to emerge and how sustainability-driven entrepreneurs can contribute to the development of smarter and more sustainable tourism destinations. Hence, we examine SE tourism and hospitality businesses implemented by these so-called ‘smart citizens' in Lisbon (Portugal), a city that arguably provides the necessary context for smart decisions to flourish. This chapter thus aims at opening up new modes of inquiry and questioning existing epistemologies on the study of smart cities and entrepreneurship that help breaking new ground about the role of entrepreneurs in the tourism activity.

scholarly journals Good Governance Implementation in the Development of Sustainable Tourism; The Portrait of Padang City Government

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Eka Siskawati ◽  
Armel Yentifa ◽  
Zahara ◽  
Haniva Dela Gusta
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
City Government ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
City Culture ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
The Relationship

This article describes on how the implementation of good governance is carried out by Padang City Government in sustainable tourism management. This research is aimed to (1) Overseeing the good governance implementation in Padang City Government in term of the development of sustainable tourism destinations. (2) Analyzing the sustainable tourism management viewing it from agency theory. It is a qualitative descriptive research, and performed in Padang City Culture and Tourism Office. More over, data collection utilizes observation, interview, and documentation. The good governance principle employed in this research are accountability, participation, and transparency. The result shows that the implementation of good governance at Padang City Culture and Tourism Office has been achieved well. It is as a result of the agency relationships occured within local government; the relationship with the executive in the role of Culture and Tourism Office, and with public as the community.

Feminist Democratic Representation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Celis ◽  
Sarah Childs
Keyword(s):  
Group Representation ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Democratic Representation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Marine Le Pen ◽  
Account Giving ◽  
Women's Dress ◽  
The Ideal

When are women well represented, politically speaking? The popular consensus has been, for some time, when descriptive representatives put women’s issues and feminist interests on the political agenda. Today, such certainty has been well and truly shaken; differences among women—especially how they conceive of their “interests”—is said to fatally undermine the principle and practice of women’s group representation. There has been a serious loss of faith, too, in legislatures as the sites where political representation takes place. Feminist Democratic Representation responds by making a second-generation feminist design intervention; firmly grounded in feminist empirical political science, the authors’ design shows how women’s misrepresentation is best met procedurally, taking women’s differences as their starting point, adopting an indivisible conception of representation, and reclaiming the role of legislatures. This book introduces a new group of actors—the affected representatives of women—and two new parliamentary practices: group advocacy and account giving. Working with a series of vignettes—abortion, prostitution, Muslim women’s dress, and Marine Le Pen—the authors explore how these representational problematics might fare were a feminist democratic process of representation in place. The ideal representative effects are broad rather than simply descriptive or substantive: they include effects relating to affinity, trust, legitimacy, symbolism, and affect. They manifest in stronger representative relationships among women in society, and between women and their representatives, elected and affective; and greater support for the procedures, institutions, and substantive outputs of representative politics, and at a higher level, the idea of representative democracy. Against the more fashionable tide of post-representative politics, Feminist Democratic Representation argues for more and better representation.

scholarly journals Can indicators for sustainable tourism improve tourism planning in the coastal destinations?

Tourism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Kristina Brščić ◽  
Lluis Prats Planaguma ◽  
Antonio Raschi ◽  
Valentina Marchi ◽  
Tina Šugar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
First Year ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Tourism Flows

Due to the continuous increase of the tourism industry, tourism destinations need to be managed under a sustainable framework, with the main aim of minimizing the adverse effects caused by tourism flows. In recent years, several attempts have been made to measure those effects and value the level of sustainability of every destination. A clear example of this is the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS). In the paper, the results are presented of a project which aimed to test indicators of sustainable tourism in coastal destinations of Catalonia, Istrian Region, and Tuscany Region. The results of 33 collected indicators are available on the online platform of the project INTERREG MED MITOMED+. During the first year, in every category of indicators (economic, social-cultural and environmental) only some indicators were collected, which was expected because different regions apply different methodologies. The collected data is the starting point that shows destinations how the indicator can be obtained and what its purpose is. Furthermore, collected data can help local and regional tourism stakeholders to prevent factors of risk, to take decisions and to improve the implementation of policies for sustainable maritime and coastal tourism development in the Mediterranean area.

Mediating role of legal services in tourism development: a necessity for sustainable tourism destinations

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (22) ◽  
pp. 2866-2883
Author(s):  
Suhad Othman Qasim ◽  
Mustafa Tumer ◽  
Ali Ozturen ◽  
Hasan Kilic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Tourism Destinations

scholarly journals Sustainable Tourism Planning: A Strategy for Oecusse-Ambeno, East Timor

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Miguel Amado ◽  
Evelina Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Visitor Attractions ◽  
Common Future ◽  
Insight Into

This paper aims to explore the topic of sustainable tourism activity. The subject has emerged in the last two decades from discussions about the content of the report, Our Common Future. The decision to transform developing countries into new offerings for ecological and cultural tourism brings to the discussion the imprecise and conflicting definitions of the concept and the need to distinguish between the development of tourism, and sustainable tourism supported on the principles of sustainable development. The research reviews the environmental and social contexts of the Oecusse-Ambeno region in East Timor. It discusses the new sustainable tourism activities in the region with the need to ensure that the concept includes a strong base of perceived authenticity in the human context and the physical environment. The problems of the carrying capacity control of tourism development, and the term’s relevance to mass or conventional tourism, are strategically anticipated. The region is confronted with an offer that supports more peacefulness, and that is more aligned to the culture and the natural environment. This paper provides insight into the ways in which tourists perceive the authenticity of visitor attractions and highlights the importance of the cultural and environmental values of tourism destinations for strategic planning and marketing purposes.

The Role of Public and Private Sector for Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality Business Development in Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-215
Author(s):  
Yezihalem Sisay Takele
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Public And Private Sector

In order to achieve the objective of the study, both primary and secondary data were generated by employing qualitative (using group discussion, in depth interview, and observation) and quantitative (mainly using survey and visitor survey questionnaires) methods. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select both private and public tourism sectors and 80 samples, respectively. The quantitative data was analyzed using frequency, percentage, and mean when appropriate while qualitative data was used to triangulate and substantiate the study. The finding result shows the visitor experience on the area of transportation and accommodation is the area where Addis Ababa falls far behind. There are several areas of poor performance (supported by both visitor questionnaires during the preparation of this study). Overall, the analysis identified that the industry (the role of public and private sector for sustainable tourism development in Ethiopia) is underperforming relative to the tremendous potential value to fasten for a tourism industry in the country.

scholarly journals Introduction: what are the challenges and opportunities for tourism sustainability in Cyprus?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zanete Garanti ◽  
Galina Berjozkina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

PurposeThis paper provides an overview and explains the context of this theme issue. The paper outlines the theme issue approach and profiles the articles written in response to the strategic question that aims to explore the challenges and opportunities for sustainable tourism development in Cyprus.Design/methodology/approachThe paper outlines the theme issue approach to exploring challenges and opportunities for sustainable tourism development in Cyprus. The strategic question is tackled in a series of articles that contain literature reviews, reviews of data and evidence, interactions with practitioners and practical solutions.FindingsThe findings of the theme issue focus on sustainability challenges and opportunities in Cyprus and provide insights into the history, current state of development and progress made in implementing sustainable development in its tourism and hospitality industry.Originality/valueThis theme issue outlines the challenges that the tourism industry faces in a small island state that is highly dependent on income generated by conventional tourism activity. In turbulent times where all stakeholders actively demand more sustainable, balanced tourism activity, the articles in this theme issue provide insights on stakeholder involvement, support availability, residents' perceptions of tourism activity, opportunities to develop innovative, technologically advanced solutions, themed tourism activities in remote regions and destinations and the implementation of sustainability concepts in tourism and hospitality education.

scholarly journals Africa’s Capital Cities: Tourism Research in Search of Capitalness

2021 ◽  
pp. 654-669
Author(s):  
Christian M Rogerson ◽  
Jayne M Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

Although African cities are significant tourism destinations scholarship on African tourism is rural biased. This paper centres on one aspect of the neglected urban tourism research agenda of Africa, namely the state of tourism research in Africa’s national capital cities. A review of extant research is conducted on tourism in Africa’s capital cities. It pinpoints an upturn of research over the past decade with a concentration of scholarly contributions on a small group of cities and with many capitals lacking any research on aspects of the local tourism industry. Prominent thematic foci in research on capital cities are tourism and planning related issues and the development and impacts of various forms of niche tourism, most commonly of heritage and culture. Only minimally represented in Africa literature is investigations of the role of ‘capitalness’ in defining and impacting the character of capital city tourism. Arguably, therefore, Africa’s capital cities provide the setting for examining a variety of issues in tourism and hospitality research albeit that ‘capital city tourism’ is scarcely evident in contemporary scholarship about urban Africa.

scholarly journals Political Office and the Rule of Law in Plato’s Statesman

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-417
Author(s):  
Anders Dahl Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Political Office ◽  
And Control ◽  
Constitutional Analysis ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract The article discusses the relation between political office (archē) and the rule of law in Plato’s dialogue Statesman. Taking its starting-point from an observation about the Statesman’s peculiar approach to constitutional analysis, the article argues that what Plato is concerned to show is how the reconceptualisation of the role of law in government proposed in that dialogue has important implications for what we take the role of the institution of office-holding to be. While Greek political tradition held the main aim of archē to be the formal circumscription and control of official power within a constitutional order, Plato insists that it should primarily be understood as ensuring that the exercise of political power approximates, by means of law, the ideal rule by a political expert. The article ends by pointing out how this reading complements another recent discussion of office-holding in the Statesman.

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