Current Issues in Tourism
Editor: C. Michael Hall (Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand) and Chris Cooper (Foundation Professor of Tourism, University of Queensland, Australia) Michael and Chris are joint editor of the book series Aspects of Tourism. Reviews Editor John Jenkins (University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia)
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Volume: 10 Number: 1 Page: 1–32
doi:10.2167/cit267.0
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Interorganisational Relationships in Small Twin-Island Developing States in the Caribbean – The Role of the Internal Core-Periphery Model: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago
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Leslie-Ann Jordan
Department of Management Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies
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This paper explores the issues of tourism collaboration, cooperation, coordination and conflict that exist between dominant and subordinate islands in small twin-island developing states (STIDS). Previous research on tourism in small island developing states (SIDS) have neglected to examine the role that internal core-periphery (ICP) relationships can have on the ability of twin-island states to design institutional arrangements that foster effective collaboration, coordination and cooperation between public sector tourism organisations. Results from the qualitative in-depth interviews conducted show that the ICP relationship between Trinidad and Tobago has set the stage on which institutional structures are designed; organisational roles, responsibilities and authority are assigned; organisations and their actors interact and relate with each other; actors' values and interests are conditioned; distribution of power is determined; and conflicts are played out. It has also contributed to present-day conflicts and tensions between the key public sector organisations responsible for tourism policy-making. Respondents' comments confirmed that contemporary inter-organisational frictions are the product of over one hundred years of inter-island conflict. It is clear that recognition of a wider historical context is necessary in order to obtain a fuller understanding of the social, cultural, economic and political complexity of the environment within which institutional arrangements for tourism are designed.
Keywords: Caribbean, internal core-periphery, interorganisational relationships, small island developing states (SIDS), small twin-island developing states (STIDS), Trinidad and Tobago
© 2007 L-A. Jordan
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