Problem Formulation 5

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Problem Formulation 5

• CCG Project Writing Course
• Autumn 2006
• Peter Kvistgaard

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Problems in regional tourism policy

• The ph.d. thesis is based on the observation that
  there is a lack of in depth knowledge about
  problem identification processes in regional
  tourism policy.
• It is claimed that accumulation of new knowledge
  is important for at least two reasons 1. If we
  dont know what problems there is, how can we
  solve them? (content). 2. If we dont know who
  defines the problems, how can we address the
  right problems in the right way at the rigth
  time? (process)

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Problems in regional tourism policy

• There are two purposes
• An explorative/problem identifying purpose
• A comparative purpose

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Problems in regional tourism policy
Case A Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Comparison with specifica-tion of para-metres,
state-ment of findings, reflec-tions on what
knowledge can be extracted from the cases
Introductory theoretical formulation of precise
purpose and assump-tions/existing knowledge as
basis for the case studies
Case B Nova Scotis, Canada
Case C Northern Jut-land, Denmark
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What is a case?

• An empirical investigation of concurrent
  phenomena
• Within the frames of the phenomena in case
• In which clear border lines between phenomena and
  context do not always exist
• And in which as big a number of data sources have
  been used as possible

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Problems in regional tourism policy

• How has regional tourism policy developed in the
  period between 1990 and 2000 in the three case
  regions?
• What problems have been included in the regional
  tourism policies?
• What policy actors are active in the decision
  making processes in the three regions?

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Two assumptions

• It is assumed
• That the three tourism regions constituate
  themselves as policy fields in which policy
  actors can be placed in positions relative to
  each other
• That it is possible to establish connections
  between problems and actors