Self-organisation in tourism planning: complex dynamics of planning, policy-making, and tourism governance in Santa Elena, Ecuador

Abstract

This research explores the dynamic interplay between self-organised tourism planning and formal, linear and institutionalised tourism governance structures in the Santa Elena province, Ecuador. Complexity theory provides a framework and a language to understand actor-led, non-linear, bottom-up, and highly contextualised self-organised planning efforts that can change the future of tourism destinations amidst unstable and changing tourism governance conditions

Date of Award	May 2013
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	University of Brighton
Supervisor	Peter Burns (Supervisor) & Phil Haynes (Supervisor)