Scenario Planning and Tourism Futures

156 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h57min.
First book dedicated to scenario planning methodologies in the context of tourism, hospitality and eventsThis book offers a practical guide for scenario planning to make sense of the future of tourism for practitioners, researchers and students. It provides an overview of the theoretical development of scenario planning, describes the scenario planning method and puts it into the context of strategic foresight. A variety of scenario planning and futures case studies are presented which demonstrate how scenario planning is used and deployed. Each case study is drawn from the European Tourism Futures Institute’s 12 years of practice, emphasising the different stages of the scenario planning method, and includes learning points and discussion questions to help readers understand key concepts, theories and applications.Figures and Tables Falco de Klerk Wolters: Foreword: 15 Years of the European Tourism Futures Institute (ETFI) Jeremy Sampson: Foreword: Focus on the Future of Tourism  Chapter 1. Why the Future is Important in an Uncertain World: The Role of Scenario Planning to Create the Future of Tourism Chapter 2. Is Scenario Planning a Theory Builder or a Research Methodology? Chapter 3. Strengthening Resilience in Tourism through Scenario Planning Chapter 4. Methodologies of Scenario Planning and Strategic Foresight Chapter 5. The Application of Scenario Planning in Tourism Chapter 6. The European Tourism Futures Institute Method Chapter 7. A Scenario Framework for the Post COVID-19 Futures of Tourism Chapter 8. The Tourism Futures of Rural Friesland: An Integrated Spatial Planning Approach to Tourism Planning Chapter 9. Futures Lab Fryslân  Chapter 10. Scenarios for Inbound Tourism to the Netherlands – Case Study Chapter 11. Notting Hill Carnival Futures 2020 Chapter 12. Visitor Pressure in European Cities Chapter 13. The European Tourism Futures Institute on the Edge of Time References Index