tourism product development
Tourism Tidbits: Still More on Old-New Forms of Tourism Research and Product Development
Dr. Peter Tarlow | September 6, 2017
by Dr. Peter Tarlow The world is changing faster than most of us can comprehend. New threats seem to arise daily, from threats of nuclear war to threats of economic crises, from acts of low-tech terrorism, such as car ramming, to new computer scams. These accelerated changes means that tourism professionals must adapt to a world that is not only often incomprehensible to the professional but even more so to his/her client. This consistency of change requires tourism professionals to constantly update their attitudes and assumptions and become not only up-to-date with the world in which they work, but also be open to constantly new "...
Tourism Tidbits: Old-New Forms of Tourism Product Development
Dr. Peter Tarlow | August 1, 2017
by Dr. Peter Tarlow The famous French phrase: "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" (the more things change the more they are the same) is a good starting point for tourism product development. Often what is old becomes new, and what we see as innovative was always right before our eyes. Some basic principles of tourism product development are that "every community has a unique tale to tell, we just have not yet uncovered it". Another key factor is: "Be who you are, do not be what you are not". Finally, "what was "then", may well become what will be tomorrow". In other words things that were pedestrian a century or...
