eprintid: 1318001
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creators_name: Attia, A.
title: Planning for sustainable tourism development: 
an Investigation into implementing tourism policy
in the North West coast region of
Egypt
ispublished: unpub
divisions: F32
note: Thesis digitised by British Library EThOS
abstract: 'Policy analysis is one activity for which there can be no fixed
program, for policy analysis is synonymous with creativity, which may
be stimulated by theory and sharpened by practice.'
(Wildavsky 1979: 3)
This study is concerned with analyzing the tourism public policy process within the
framework of institutional arrangements, power arrangements, values, interests, and
motivations of the principal actors involved in the process. It aims to explain and
analyze the development process of the North West Coast (NWC) region of Egypt
which experienced the implementation of a tourism public policy that was employed
to assist with the resolution of Egypt's human settlement and economic problems.
Accordingly, it examines the national development challenges, the policies adopted to
address them and the coherent history of the tourism policy process executed in the
NWC region.
The study evaluates the tourism policy in terms of how far it achieved its promises.
The findings of the research support the research hypothesis, which postulates that
short-term political expediency constrained the implementation of national and
regional policy objectives. Political expediency was examined in both the policy
formulation and policy implementation stages of the policy process and was
manifested when the actors involved were found seeking special advantage through
public policy. In addition, it was manifested when institutions (each with its own
preferences) struggled to control resources and implement their agendas. Furthermore,
it was manifested when certain concessions to a powerful clan or a kin were awarded
to gain more political powers.
Accordingly, the theoretical framework is based on analyzing three dynamic and
interrelated fields: First, the politics of public policy implementation, with particular
reference to tourism as an instrument for development. Second, the concept of
sustainable tourism which is utilized as an analytical tool and as an idealized model
against which tourism development in the NWC region has been evaluated,
particularly because it was an overall objective for the region's tourism policy. Third:
the extent of government activity in formulating tourism public policy and managing
tourism development.
The research shows that much of the deviations from achieving the national and
regional policy objectives can be explained through the interactions, variations and
relationships between institutional structures, power arrangements and the differences
in values, motivations, and interests of the actors and institutions involved in
formulating and implementing the tourism policy in the NWC region.
date: 1999
vfaculties: VBEF
oa_status: green
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
thesis_view: UCL_Thesis
dart: DART-Europe
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pages: 426
institution: University of London
department: Development Planning Unit
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Attia, A.;      (1999)    Planning for sustainable tourism development: an Investigation into implementing tourism policy in the North West coast region of Egypt.                   Doctoral thesis , University of London.     Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1318001/1/312770.pdf