Desirable tourism futures: stakeholders' participation in local strategic planning for sustainable tourism in Orkney Islands.

Roitershtein, Alona

Abstract

Comprehensive stakeholder engagement in tourism planning is vital for sustainable destination development, but many strategic plans fail to provide evidence of such engagement on a destination level. As a part of a wider doctoral research project, that aims to evaluate the sustainable tourism strategy in Orkney Islands, this paper aims to discuss a proposed process of developing the Strategy Evaluation Framework, which considers the high contextuality of sustainable tourism development, and the complex stakeholder structure in a specific rural island destination. It is argued that lessons learnt from this process, and the results of the wider Orkney case study, can aid in developing and implementing sustainable tourism strategies in other rural and island destinations, as well as provide a valuable contribution to future strategic planning for sustainable tourism development in Orkney. As a single case study, this research employs an in-depth analysis of sustainability needs in Orkney, as viewed by a variety of its stakeholders, and attempts to provide a pragmatic solution to a real-life sustainability challenge this remote island community is facing.

Citation

ROITERSHTEIN, A. 2022. Desirable tourism futures: stakeholders' participation in local strategic planning for sustainable tourism in Orkney Islands. Presented at the 30th Nordic symposium on tourism and hospitality research: participatory approaches to development for desirable tourism futures, 27-29 September 2022, Porvoo, Finland.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 30th Nordic symposium on tourism and hospitality research: participatory approaches to development for desirable tourism futures
• Start Date: Sep 27, 2022
• End Date: Sep 29, 2022
• Deposit Date: Nov 8, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 8, 2023
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Sustainable tourism; Island tourism; Rural tourism; Peripheral tourism; Tourism planning; Tourism strategy; Scotland
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2028587
• Additional Information: This paper has also been distributed in the book of abstracts from the event, which is available on the conference website: https://www.nordicsymposium2022.fi/files/2022/09/Book-of-Abstracts.pdf