Stakeholder consultations serve as powerful legitimising devices upon the balance of
participants, the quality of the process and its effective results. We propose a deliberative …

Policy-making always appears to lag behind the times. Initially, Amsterdam developed
policies that promoted tourism. However, when Amsterdam showed signs of becoming an …

Regional competitiveness has become a truism for many places today. In line with this
“competitive discourse”, planners in Umeå, Northern Sweden, are seeking to create a …

Useful lessons can be drawn from realist evaluation and appreciative inquiry for the
evaluation of tourism interventions in complex contexts. We combine the strengths of these …

This paper dwells upon transmedia storytelling as a cutting-edge tourist-oriented approach
to promote a territory in a smart perspective with a focus on the power of a hashtag …

Although information and communication technologies (ICTs) possess a multitude of
possibilities to improve and enhance access for people with disabilities to tourism services …

This paper contributes to tourism's conceptual, methodological and ethical debates by
discussing the potential offered by arts-based participatory approaches to enrich tourism …

Mega-sport events (MSEs) target, sequestrate and territorialise a 'host'(city–or nation) to
exist, sustain themselves, survive and deliver on organisational objectives. Yet, little …

In this study, we combined reflexive monitoring—a critical assessment, evaluation, and
practice-adjustment process—with participatory learning through educational games to …

Sustainable cultural tourism, understood as heritage-based tourism, can support inclusive
and sustainable development, especially in remote or peripheral areas. While participatory …