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Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands

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  • Stoffelen, Arie
  • Ioannides, Dimitri
  • Vanneste, Dominique

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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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  • Stoffelen, Arie & Ioannides, Dimitri & Vanneste, Dominique, 2017. "Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 126-138.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:64:y:2017:i:c:p:126-138
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.03.003
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