Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Editors: Bill Bramwell (Sheffield Hallam University) and Bernard Lane (Visiting Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University)
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Volume: 8 Number: 6 Page: 491–509
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Help or Hindrance? Sustainable Approaches to Tourism Consultancy in Central and Eastern Europe
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Fiona Simpson and Lesley Roberts
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This year celebrates the start of a second decade of partnerships with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as transfers of know-how and technology continue to support economic, social, civil
and political restructuring processes. Although the sustainability of consultancy inputs from advanced capitalist countries of the West to traditional recipients of aid has been increasingly questioned,
the debate has neither addressed the specific problems associated with the post-socialist European context, nor linked advancements in the design of projects with their implementation, and analysed the
role of consultants as a central element of this process. In its analysis of consultancy processes and practices in the field of rural tourism development in CEE, this paper focuses on the nature of designed
learning experiences, the interpretation of knowledge shared and the sustainability of processes established. In order to explore a conceptual understanding of the interactions between development theory
and the practical roles of consultants at project implementation stage, the authors use a typology of consultant practitioner and a set of project contexts to illustrate the ways in which different approaches
of consultants add a further dimension to projects by shaping relationships, processes and outcomes.
© Channel View Publications 2001
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