This chapter reflects on ‘relevant’ academic engagement with a Tourism Destination Management Organization and the City Council in Cambridge, to then consider aspects of local authority changes and tourism governance. This engagement focused on seeking to develop more sustainable tourism approaches during which questions emerged regarding where tourism governance could be found and how it is wielded in a time of neoliberal economic dominance and the shared human-made planetary disaster that has come to be known as the Anthropocene. We find that the growth models of businesses, universities, city, regional, and national governments are incompatible with the growing planetary crisis we face. This leads to a Foucaultian reflection of some recent tourism matters of concern in Cambridge in recent years to show that governance is a more-than-human set of practices that involves a huge range of differing organizations, technologies, natures, at a range of differing spatial and temporal scales. As part of this we look at how assemblages of regional policies work that effect tourism, and how policies are not just local or regional. Moreover, modern governance in a country like the UK has become irrevocably tied to neoliberalism, and now post-neoliberal forms that reduce contested social issues to technical and economic problems that deny a wider examination of the role of tourism and related activities of mobilities in the city and beyond.

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Local Government, Tourism, and (More-Than-Human) Governance: The DMOs of Cambridge

  • Chris Wilbert

摘要

This chapter reflects on ‘relevant’ academic engagement with a Tourism Destination Management Organization and the City Council in Cambridge, to then consider aspects of local authority changes and tourism governance. This engagement focused on seeking to develop more sustainable tourism approaches during which questions emerged regarding where tourism governance could be found and how it is wielded in a time of neoliberal economic dominance and the shared human-made planetary disaster that has come to be known as the Anthropocene. We find that the growth models of businesses, universities, city, regional, and national governments are incompatible with the growing planetary crisis we face. This leads to a Foucaultian reflection of some recent tourism matters of concern in Cambridge in recent years to show that governance is a more-than-human set of practices that involves a huge range of differing organizations, technologies, natures, at a range of differing spatial and temporal scales. As part of this we look at how assemblages of regional policies work that effect tourism, and how policies are not just local or regional. Moreover, modern governance in a country like the UK has become irrevocably tied to neoliberalism, and now post-neoliberal forms that reduce contested social issues to technical and economic problems that deny a wider examination of the role of tourism and related activities of mobilities in the city and beyond.