LOCAL VERSUS EXTERNAL INTERVENTIONS IN RURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
LOCAL VERSUS EXTERNAL INTERVENTIONS IN RURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to understand the socio-political dynamics taking place within the local community as rural tourism is developing, and how this reflects upon social actors that are engaged (or not) in development practices, their interactions and development process itself. The insights in the rural tourism development process, presented in this paper are drawn from an actor-oriented perspective. Applying actor-oriented approach to the context of rural tourism development allows conceptualizing it as a dynamic, on-going process that is shaped and reshaped by social actors who are not passive recipients of the consequences or impacts of rural tourism development policy, but are instead capable to negotiate the outcomes of a given situation. Rural tourism is, thus, an emergent property.

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