This chapter discusses the tourism project environment, the role of private-public partnership, the tourism development process and design, as well as the possible range of project outcomes.

This chapter reflects on a neglected export sector in the Nigerian economy, that of tourism, in order to identify whether some refinements to the existing principles of developing tourism are merited. It then goes on to hint at both the issues that deserve consideration for future tourism...

This book chapter seeks to: (i) explore the role of the settings approach to health promotion and the need for organizational change; (ii) discuss the importance of evidence-based practice and evaluation; (iii) describe some of the ethical issues in practising health promotion; (iv) suggest a means ...

This book chapter aims to: (i) explore the role of the epistemic and academic community of health promoters; (ii) suggest that there are new and emerging public health problems to take into account; (iii) reinforce the need to defend the radical intent of the Ottawa Charter and to develop further...

This chapter looks at tourism route development from the viewpoint of the public sector - the agents of national, regional and local government. It explains how routes are seen as a way of distributing value across a destination, and uses examples from Peru and New Mexico to illustrate how...

This chapter takes a high-level look at who the risk managers are, what they do, the roles they play, vertical and horizontal alignment of risk management and the qualities of a good risk manager. It identifies the risk managers in two broad categories of risk: production risk, which is borne and...

This chapter provides an overview of destination management, supported by relevant theory and concepts. It covers the role of public and private sectors in destination management, planning for destination development, the formation of destination management organizations, as well as funding and...

This chapter provides an overview of options for private sector tourism partnerships in protected areas, with a range of for-profit and not-for-profit business models based on land owned by government, the private sector, communities and others. Institutional arrangements of varying degrees of...

This chapter focuses on understanding the supply and demand aspects of food value chains and their relationship to nutrition using a food-systems perspective. It considers the collaborative roles of value chain actors, including producers, consumers, organizations, businesses, and the public...

This chapter explores the distribution of funding and approvals for GM crops in Australia in order to determine if private interests dominate public research in agricultural biotechnology and if public interests can be served by collaborations with private organizations. Although a highly detailed...