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Avian flu, terrorism, global financial crises), and that governments are often required to pull together a raft of actions at short notice to respond to perceived risks. Separate planning processes and policy development can be triggered in such scenarios. 29 tourism. g. , 2008; Yeoman, 2008). ’ 4. The procedural tradition that provides direction on how to plan and manage destination and is oriented towards identifying detailed steps, actions and initiatives. g. Murphy, 1985, 1988; Gunn, 1994; Dredge and Jenkins, 2007a; Hall, 2008).

G. an allocation of public funds or incentives to ecotourism operators across Australia rather than an allocation of funds to promote tourism generally in a regional destination). Dredge (1999, p. 774) defines planning as ‘the process of defining a strategic vision for an area which reflects the community’s goals and aspirations and taking the necessary steps to implement it’. In this definition the full range of interests present in the community, including the tourism industry and residents, are valued.

In its most simple form, planning is defined as the activity of setting goals and identifying steps to fulfil those goals. It is an inherently difficult concept to pin down conceptually, even though many of us ‘perform’ planning on a daily basis: we make decisions about what tasks are our responsibility; we choose what tasks are more or less important; we assess the impacts of conducting these tasks on our available resources; we assess how best to undertake those tasks; and we make trade-offs between options when we cannot do everything.

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