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来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.25,Issue6,P.1013-1033

语言

英文

关键字

Cross-border cooperation; regional development; border regions; tourism governance; integrative rural tourism; institutional thickness; INTEGRATED RURAL TOURISM; ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNANCE; INSTITUTIONS; DESTINATIONS; PARADOXES; AREAS

作者单位

[Stoffelen, Arie; Vanneste, Dominique] KU Leuven Univ Leuven, Div Geog & Tourism, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Leuven, Belgium. Stoffelen, A (reprint author), KU Leuven Univ Leuven, Div Geog & Tourism, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Leuven, Belgium. E-Mail: arie.stoffelen@kuleuven.be

摘要

This paper aims to structurally analyse the role of tourism in regional development processes in European cross-border regions with different historical development paths. Departing from an institutional perspective, the research is based on comparison of the position of tourism in region-building processes in the newly developing German-Czech cross-border region and the more mature' German-Belgian borderlands. Results indicate that the development of local cross-border tourism projects is no guarantee for positive destination-wide regional development impacts. In some cases, these projects may even reinforce asymmetrical socio-economic development directions of neighbouring borderlands. Rather, the socio-spatially equitable distribution of tourism benefits in cross-border contexts depends on several process-based aspects. These include the presence of thick' (cross-border) institutional arrangements, multi-scalar representation of tourism stakeholders in decision-making processes and a transversal position of tourism in regional development strategies. However, both with cross-border institutional under-mobilization' (Germany-Czech Republic) and with institutional over-mobilization' (Germany-Belgium), the informal network position of institutional brokers proved key for safeguarding the integrative character of tourism in the inevitably complex cross-border region-building process.