An exploration of formal tourism development in Quebec’s Indigenous Cree community of Waskaganish

The Cree community of Waskaganish is an Indigenous community situated on the James Bay in Northern Quebec. Waskaganish is in an early stage of tourism development and currently encounters a relatively limited number of visitors who participate in a variety of informal activities including traditional cultural Cree activities including fishing, hunting, and trapping. Current legislation restricts cultural practices such as fishing and hunting to members of the Cree Nation. However, locals informally involve visitors in these activities, which while illegal, is unenforceable. A recent Cree Nation Governance Agreement was passed in 2017 enabling the Cree Nation government to pass laws and regulations that supersede federal or provincial laws in designated category 1A lands. The Cree Nation now has the opportunity to consider modifying these regulations to allow for formal tourism opportunities which could benefit the local economy and protect and showcase local culture and environment. This study explores the preparedness and potential for legal changes that support formalized tourism in Waskaganish

A Framework for Assessing National Tourism Plans

An integrated framework is created to assess national-level tourism plans and is applied to the Egyptian case. To date, the assessment of tourism planning has been a tedious, expensive process and detailed evaluations have not often been undertaken in a systematic manner. It is argued that much can be learned about tourism planning by examining tourism planning documents systematically according to a set of criteria. Although plans differ depending on their contexts, there are certain attributes that should be present in all tourism plans. In this dissertation a set of characteristics is delineated that should be present in national-level tourism plans. The proposed assessment framework is divided into four major components: goals and objectives, approach to tourism planning, institutional elements, and marketing. Each component is then further divided into key points drawn from pertinent literatures that suggest the characteristics of a good plan and, therefore, what should be assessed in plan evaluation. The framework is then applied to the Egyptian tourism plan to guide an examination and assessment of the documents. Based on this analysis, recommendations are made to improve Egyptian tourism planning. This research contributes to tourism planning by suggesting a framework that can be employed with relative ease to assess tourism plans for different national-level destinations, thus facilitating problem and issue identification, offering an opportunity for learning, and providing a structure for undertaking comparative studies

Assessing Tourism Planning: Goals and Objectives for Egyptian Tourism

This study assesses tourism plans by comparing principles in the literature on tourism planning with Egyptian National tourism planning documents. Issues that are addressed relate to the choice of goals and objectives and the form that they take in Egyptian national tourism planning. It is found that Egyptian tourism planning follows the trends of according growing attention to sustainability and promoting the value of collaboration and synchronization on the part of multiple agencies. However, there is much room for improvement, particularly regarding reaping the benefits of such initiatives due to a lack of comprehensiveness in planning

Tourism Development and the Environment on the Egyptian Red Sea Coast

Tourism has become one of Egypt’s main sources of income and has undergone rapid privatization and subsequent growth. This has resulted in numerous policy and implementation gaps including those in environmental policy. Egypt’s natural resources are thus threatened by this unsustainable tourism growth. This study analyses the impact of the tourism privatization movement in Egypt on the distribution of environmental responsibility between the private and public sectors and the environmental consequences. Changes in the roles of the private and public sectors in tourism and other roles, priorities, and agendas that each stakeholder may have are considered in this thesis. In order to gather information for this study, Egyptian laws and legislations pertaining to the areas of the environment, tourism and investment were examined. Secondary data from government sources about tourist numbers and characteristics, and about investment trends in Egypt were also obtained and examined. A series of interviews of key informants from the public sector, private sector, and NGOs were also conducted in the Egyptian capital city, Cairo, and on the Red Sea. Two Red Sea cities, Hurghada and El Gouna were visited and environmental initiatives in them were observed and made note of. This study finds that the Egyptian private sector is more successful than the public sector at planning and managing environmental initiatives, and that Egypt’s tourism pricing policy is a key influence on the level of environmental degradation. In terms of laws and regulations, it was found that Egypt has a sufficient number of environmental regulations and institutions; but that the challenge lies in their functioning and efficiency, and that the government’s environmental initiatives are largely symbolic and designed to attract foreign aid. These findings suggest that Egypt should focus on improving the quality rather than increasing the quantity of tourism. Accordingly, the marketing competitive advantage should be the quality and uniqueness of the destination rather than its low price. In terms of private-public sector interactions, governmental institutions should assume a more active role in environmental protection and should employ experts and knowledgeable professionals as decision makers, while the private sector should be encouraged to undertake large-scale tourism projects. It is found that sustainable tourism cannot be achieved without the contribution and collaboration of both parties in tourism planning and development

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The book Opting for Elsewhere by Brian Hoey is a thought-provoking read with an appeal to a wide audience. It is about the challenges and opportunities from voluntary resettlement. These challenges and opportunities are examined in light of changing life circumstances or re-evaluation of quality of life. The book is written in the first person and takes the reader on a journey along with the author in constructing lifestyle migration and its role in contemporary American society. Throughout t..

Pour en lire plus : Opting for Elsewhere: Lifestyle Migration in the American Middle Class

The book Opting for Elsewhere by Brian Hoey is a thought-provoking read with an appeal to a wide audience. It is about the challenges and opportunities from voluntary resettlement. These challenges and opportunities are examined in light of changing life circumstances or re-evaluation of quality of life. The book is written in the first person and takes the reader on a journey along with the author in constructing lifestyle migration and its role in contemporary American society. Throughout t..

An exploration of formal tourism development in Quebec’s Indigenous Cree community of Waskaganish

Jonathan Blueboy is a Cree member of the community of Waskaganish and is currently a student at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario under the Bachelor of Hospitality and Tourism Management Program. Zainub Ibrahim is a professor at Algonquin College’s School of Business and Hospitality, in Canada’s national capital city of Ottawa. Her research interests surround the topic of tourism planning and how tourism is negotiated in the spaces it occupies.The Cree community of Waskaganish is an Indigenous community situated on the James Bay in Northern Quebec. Waskaganish is in an early stage of tourism development and currently encounters a relatively limited number of visitors who participate in a variety of informal activities including traditional cultural Cree activities including fishing, hunting, and trapping. Current legislation restricts cultural practices such as fishing and hunting to members of the Cree Nation. However, locals informally involve visitors in these activities, which while illegal, is unenforceable. A recent Cree Nation Governance Agreement was passed in 2017 enabling the Cree Nation government to pass laws and regulations that supersede federal or provincial laws in designated category 1A lands. The Cree Nation now has the opportunity to consider modifying these regulations to allow for formal tourism opportunities which could benefit the local economy and protect and showcase local culture and environment. This study explores the preparedness and potential for legal changes that support formalized tourism in Waskaganish

Lifestyle Migration and the Quest for a Life-long Vacation

With international migration on the rise, researchers are interested in understanding the link between migration and tourism more than ever before. In this paper, we introduce some of the main concepts used in studies on migration and tourism, which lead to our discussion of lifestyle migration. We then examine the case of the Québécois in Florida in light of the literature on lifestyle migration and assess whether this case fits the definition and characteristics of lifestyle migration. Our analysis is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with thirty Québécois migrants in Florida. We find that even though our case study does not adhere to the classical definition of lifestyle migration as it does not meet the restriction of relative affluence, it is representative of the characteristics of this type of migration, and class issues play a significant role in the lives and experiences of the migrants

Assessing Tourism Planning: Goals and Objectives for Egyptian Tourism

This study assesses tourism plans by comparing principles in the literature on tourism planning with Egyptian National tourism planning documents. Issues that are addressed relate to the choice of goals and objectives and the form that they take in Egyptian national tourism planning. It is found that Egyptian tourism planning follows the trends of according growing attention to sustainability and promoting the value of collaboration and synchronization on the part of multiple agencies. However, there is much room for improvement, particularly regarding reaping the benefits of such initiatives due to a lack of comprehensiveness in planning