Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Editors: Bill Bramwell (Sheffield Hallam University) and Bernard Lane (Visiting Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University)
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Volume: 7 Number: 3 Page: 331–355
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Collaborative Tourism Planning as Adaptive Experiments in Emergent Tourism Settings
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Maureen G. Reed
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In this paper, the concept of adaptive management is modified from its contemporary usage in environmental management to collaborative planning in emergent tourism settings. This application is possible
because both emergent tourism settings and environmental planning situations are considered turbulent, characterised by change, uncertainty, complexity and conflict. Adaptive management attempts to embrace
these conditions by establishing focused interventions from which unexpected outcomes provide opportunities for learning. While adaptive management shares some features of collaboration, its focus on learning
is considered more appropriate for confronting and addressing local power relations within emergent tourism settings. Yet similar problems are encountered in applying the concept. These opportunities and
limitations are considered in light of a case study in Squamish, Canada.
© Channel View Publications 1999
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