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A Review of the Advantages and Disadvantages Associated with the Different Approaches and Scales Adopted in the Tourism Planning
J-kita Srisuan and Kankulanut Vichanurak
Planning for tourism can and has been approached from different perspectives with different scales and aims to boost tourism activities or to achieve sustainability. Tourism planning equally takes place at different scales: international, national, regional, and local levels. The planning process should be identified as a continuous and flexible progression, for example, the policies and recommendations need to be flexible for alternative circumstances. However if the approach is not well-managed and well-organized, it could bring the impacts to destination. In some local communities, local people may be provided just low-skilled minimum wage work. People in local community clearly do not get much in the benefit provided by tourism activities. The community usually pursues to get benefit from tourism, however the people might not have ‘a realistic understanding of what they are doing in achieving this development and what are the impacts of tourism’. It is strong that the way to achieve the strong well-planned local tourism development is the need of community participation as well as the decision making processes.
The paper was published in Sripatum Chonburi Journal in 2016.
