NRRT 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cultural Policy

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism
• Course: NRRT 1100E
• Professor: Bertrum

Document Summary

Tourism policy- basically thinking about the set of regulations, guidelines, or directives that destinations use to make sure they are reaching their goals. Two big goals are to be competitive and to provide many benefits to the residents including economic, environmental, and cultural benefits. Why the need for tourism policy: competitiveness and sustainability, growing competition, p(cid:396)essu(cid:396)e to li(cid:373)it tou(cid:396)is(cid:373)(cid:859)s (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)ts, environmental, social, and economic, success is dependent on, competitiveness, sustainability, policy helps ensure competitiveness and sustainability! Tourism policy and type of destinations: countries, states, cities/counties, regions (no borders, but common offerings, crown of the continent (montana, alberta, and british columbia) Interplay with other types of policy: passports and visa, taxation. Interest rates: bilateral air agreements, environmental policy, customs/immigration, minimum wage policy, cultural policy, local zoning, support for public facilities. Infrastructure policy: currency/exchange rates, legal system, education policy. Implementation phase- who is going to assume responsibility for implementing it: *know def and order of stages.