Tourism Planning and Development

This collection contains critical studies on tourism development and planning, and calls for proactive, holistic and responsible thinking. It argues that recognition of the contextual and historical dimensions around tourism development and planning is essential to help both researchers and practitioners better understand destination and place-based decision-making. In addition, it will lead to improvements in stakeholder relations, and explains how tourism best works with localities and localities with tourism. This edition was originally published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies.