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Tourism and Governance

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Education for Sustainability in Tourism

Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance ((CSEG))

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This chapter discusses tourism education for sustainability with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with preparing students to work within complex tourism governance settings. It takes the position that the development of tourism within a sustainability framework requires that tourism professionals effectively engage in dynamic social discourses where difficult trade-offs are made between competing demands. The challenge for tourism education is therefore to prepare graduates to work in these complex, value-laden, socio-political environments where they can proactively and positively contribute to developing forms of tourism that progress the objectives of sustainable development. This chapter explores this challenge in terms of a philosophic tourism practitioner education, and in doing so, discusses three key dimensions of this education: historical antecedents and contemporary knowledge and understandings of governance; competencies for tourism governance for sustainability; and ethical action-oriented practice.

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    We recognize that reductionist approaches to the study of sustainable tourism management are inevitable given the complexity and interconnectedness of sustainable development problems. It is the inter-connections between studies that require more attention. Moreover, the nature of research funding and academic work in most countries exacerbates the challenge of taking a more integrative approach.

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    The term has earlier origins, but Plato’s Republic is generally thought to be the first time the term was examined in detail. Later, the Latin verb gobernare, ‘to direct, rule or guide’ was picked up and used in French (gouverner) and made its way into Italian and English.

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    Dianne Dredge

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    Pierre Benckendorff

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Dredge, D. (2015). Tourism and Governance. In: Moscardo, G., Benckendorff, P. (eds) Education for Sustainability in Tourism. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47470-9_5

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