Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Geography & Tourism, KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, 3001 Leuven, Belgium;2. Department of Tourism Studies and Geography, Mid-Sweden University, Kunskapens Väg 1, 831 25 Östersund, Sweden;1. Wageningen University & Research, Cultural Geography, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, Building number 101/GAIA, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands;2. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Tourism Research Unit, Department of Culture and Global Studies, A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, DK-2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark;3. University of Iceland, Askja v/Sturlugötu, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland;1. International Chair in Ecotourism Research, Griffith University, 4222, Australia;2. School of Environment, Griffith University, 4222, Australia;3. Griffith Business School, Griffith University, 4222, Australia;1. KU Leuven, Division of Geography and Tourism, Celestijnenlaan 200E – Box 2409, 3001 Leuven, Belgium;2. Utrecht University, Division of Human Geography and Planning, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands;1. Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand;2. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA;3. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | This paper aims to identify distinctive obstacles to the establishment of tourism destination governance in both transnational and within-country borderlands. Analysis of the German-Czech borderlands, a region also incorporating within-country borders between three German federal states, indicates the multi-scalar and political contestations of cross-border tourism collaboration. Local tourism projects are generally successful, both on a transnational German-Czech level and between the German states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. However, structural cross-border destination management does not exist because of (transnational) multi-scalar institutional alignment problems and (internal) tourism-specific destination-level power contestations. Understanding destination management processes in borderlands, therefore, requires: (i) explicit multi-scalar analysis; (ii) recognition of both transnational and within-country contexts; (iii) more cross-pollination between tourism planning and cross-border governance research. |
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| Keywords: | Tourism planning Destination management Multi-level governance Cross-border tourism Cross-border cooperation Border regions |
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