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| THE PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE CORE CONTENTS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN TOURISM PLANNING |
| YANG Xing-zhu1,2, LU Lin2, WANG Qun2 |
1. Department of Urban and Resource, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
2. Tourism Academy, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China |
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Abstract Public participation is a new research field, democracy management idea. It involves planning, tourism, geography, management, economics, organizational behaviorism, political science, social psychology and so on.From different angle of perspectives, Public participation is a new planning idea, a new management means, and a way to realize planning aim.
Taking a broad view of the theories and practices of public involvement in tourism planning in China, these researches on public participation in tourism planning is still at the starting stage. Traditional top-down planning has still been applied to the majority of tourism planning and management. As far as the theory researches are concerned, scholars and experts are more concerned about object studies than subject studies on tourism planning in our country. In practice researches, they pay more attention to the formulation of the text than public participation and planning management. That theories and methods on public participation are systematically researched is rare.
So this article probes into theories and methods and sets forth the connotation of public participation and then analyzes the contents and process of participation in tourism planning and the tools and the methods used in participation in order to strengthen and promote further research on public participation in tourism planning.
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Received: 19 May 2005
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2006, Vol. 21 
