Tourism industry responses to public-private partnership arrangements for destination management organisations in small island economies: a case study of Jersey, Channel Islands

Since the 1970s, in many developed countries, governance arrangements for tourism have been revised in response to significant challenges faced by national economies and the associated changing political contexts. Destination management organisations (DMOs) that have traditionally been part of public sector structures have been shifted towards the realm of the private sector and are now operated in a collaborative way, with public-private partnerships (PPPs). This paper takes a governance theory approach and examines tourism industry stakeholders’ responses to a proposed public-private partnership arrangement for the local destination management organisation in Jersey, a British Isle. The period under study is 2006 to 2012, a time when public sector governance arrangements for tourism were experiencing significant change in the UK context. Stakeholders acknowledged and agreed the common benefits associated with PPPs, such as greater efficiencies and expertise, but they also identified in particular the various reasons why a standard PPP model would not be appropriate for Jersey’s DMO because of the island characteristics of the destination. These stakeholders’ responses to a new PPP model are better understood by examining the relationship between governance and the concept of ‘islandness’

Business improvement districts and the visitor economy

Tourism is one of the largest components of the global economy and has been one of the only reliable drivers of economic growth and job creation in the United Kingdom since the start of the global economic crisis. 17% of all jobs created in the UK between 2010 and 2014 came from the hospitality industry alone, and total tourism employment is responsible for nearly one in ten of all jobs in the UK. Tourism currently contributes £126.9bn to GDP and has a significant economic impact in all of the UK’s nations and regions. Despite these impressive statistics, it is common to hear tourism described as insignificant by policymakers and businesses alike, and many BIDs undervalue the contribution that can be made by visitors of all kinds to thriving local economies

A note on the construction of right circular cylinders through five 3D points

In this short report, we address the problem of constructing a right circular cylinderfrom a given set of ve 3D points. The idea is to be able to construct a cylinder in a similarway as one can construct a plane from three points, or a sphere from four points. Thiswould be particularly useful for cylinder robust tting and cylinder extraction. However,this leads to a much more complex situation than for the plane or the sphere, since theequations involved are nonlinear with respect to the parameters. Our approach is tosimplify the initial system of equations in order to get a more tractable computationalproblem. The system arrived at in this paper consists of three polynomial equations inthree unknowns, of degree (2, 2, 3), which is simpler than the system found in relatedworks. This system has been tested numerically using an interval analysis software