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dc.contributor.authorVan Fossen, Anthony
dc.contributor.authorLafferty, G.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-24T05:08:09Z
dc.date.available2020-03-24T05:08:09Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.identifier.issn10349952
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10349952.1998.11876689
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/121986
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the most influential model of tourism development, the life cycle model, which has defined a ‘normal science’ of evolution for tourism destinations. The model is internally coherent, logical, easily intelligible and was used extensively as a guide to predicting development. For all destinations it postulates a path of steady growth until stagnation is reached. The model's widespread influence has discouraged policy and planning prior to stagnation. This paper illustrates the model's limitations, through a comparative analysis of tourism development in Queensland and Hawaii. Tourism growth in actual destinations does not support the model's predictions, in that some of the most attractive, but undeveloped destinations, have shown limited growth, while there are no indications of decline in established ‘mass’ destinations. Tourism growth in undeveloped areas is not inevitable, nor need developed destinations eventually stagnate. The paper argues that there is no automatic developmental progression. At all levels of development there are crisis points requiring coherent policy implementation if sustainable tourism growth is to be achieved.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.publisher.placeUK
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom50
dc.relation.ispartofpageto66
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPolicy, Organisation and Society
dc.relation.ispartofvolume16
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and Administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1605
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.titleTourism Policy and Planning: Evaluating the Life Cycle Model in Relation to Queensland and Hawaii
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorVan Fossen, Anthony B.


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