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Title Tourism’s role in regional development in the periphery
Group Cultural Geography Group
Project type thesis
Credits 36 (MSc)
Supervisor(s) Edward Huijbens, Karin Peters
Examiner(s) Prof. dr Edward Huijbens
Contact info GEO thesis contact person Chih-Chen Trista Lin: chihchentrista.lin@wur.nl
Begin date 2020/01/01
End date 2022/12/31
Description What are the challenges tourism faces when it is to be developed in peripheral communities? How are these challenges addressed and dealt with so tourism develops for the benefit of the communities involved and the setting in which it is to take place? Tourism is very often presented as the fail- safe way to diversify and develop an economy, as it is seemingly simple to implement with low or non-existent entry barriers for actors. Thesis projects under this topic will explore how tourism appears in policy and governance action for regions suffering decline through dynamics of peripherality.
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