Tourism and Public Policy

This chapter summarizes important aspects of tourism public policy research. It focuses on research approaches and methodologies, and considers the limitations of policy analysis. Debates and discussions concerning shifts in focus, for example from government to governance, are described. Future directions for research in areas such as metagovernance, digital citizenship (“citizen 2.0”), and e-governance are presented. We conclude that research in tourism public policy remains fragmented, and there appears to remain a reluctance by most scholars in this field to engage in deeper discussions of public policy and political studies in ways that make contributions to those disciplinary areas outside the field of tourism studies.

# Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research # Business, Management and Accounting # Public Policy and Administration Research # Social Sciences # Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

John Michael Jenkins, C. Michael Hall, Muchazondida Mkono (2014). "Tourism and Public Policy". Wiley eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118474648.ch43