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A Comparison of Two Case Studies in Kaikoura and Rotorua A Complex systems perspective on Communities and tourism: A comparison of two case studies in Kaikoura and Rotorua A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Lincoln University Chrys Horn Lincoln University 2002 © Chrys Hom, 2002 This information may be copied and distributed to others without limitation, provided that the author is acknowledged. Abstract of a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University, New Zealand. Thesis Title: A Complex systems perspective on communities and tourism: A comparison of two case studies in Kaikoura and Rotorua. By Chrys Horn This thesis analyses research into the evolution and adaptation of the communities in Rotorua and Kaikoura by using a complex systems perspective. This perspective requires that the analyst look beyond the obvious impacts of tourism such as employment, crowding, and congestion, to the processes that underlie the experiences of local people in relation to tourism. The configuration of the destination, the flows of people in the area, the visitor types and the ratio of hosts to guests all influence a community's interactions with tourists. In small destinations, the effect of host interactions with guests is potentially much greater than is the case in larger destinations. However, in using a complex systems perspective to analyse the effects of tourism on these two destinations, it becomes clear that the impacts of tourism are more than just the impacts of tourists. The impacts of tourism are intertwined with the processes of trust, leadership and decision making occurring both within the community and within the wider regional and national socio-economic systems. As such, local perceptions of tourism are associated with history, geography, local politics and local social processes. As concepts, the meanings of both 'tourism' and 'community' emerge from the experiences people have, and the associations that they make with the two terms. Thus, the meaning of both 'tourism' and 'community' are idiosyncratic and locally defined. Each term means different things to residents in Rotorua and Kaikoura, and each affects how residents perceive tourism in their respective towns. For example, the associations that people make between historical events and processes such as restructuring are quite different in each of the two communities. In Rotorua, tourism is seen as a source of stability, as a phenomenon that confers a higher level of perceived control on the community. In Kaikoura, tourism is seen as a source of change and it confers a lesser sense of perceived control on the community overall. Likewise, the relationship between the local council and the community underlies the sense of security people feel about local decision making processes. This relationship is mediated by a range of processes including the effort that the council put into communicating with community members, the leadership shown by the council, the way in which they facilitate community visioning processes, which then provide a basis for both leadership and decision making. Underlying these processes are community processes of rivalry, competition, cooperation, labelling and stereotyping that all affect the levels of trust that the community have in those around them. Community cohesion (which is not the same as community agreement) underlies a community's ability to work together to manage tourism. Thus using a complex systems approach to analyse the impacts of tourism in two destinations has shown that there is much more to tourism than the impacts of tourists and their activities. Instead, the way the community system interacts with the tourism system gives rise to the impacts of tourism. Tourism can be usefully conceptualised as a process that is inextricably interwoven with history, politics and community interaction processes at the destination level. Perceptions of tourism reflect these processes and the understanding that local people have of them, and the level of control that they feel they have over tourism development. With little trust in local decision making processes, people have a low sense of control over how tourism development affects them. In tourism planning, therefore, it may be more effective to focus primarily on the processes by which tourism development and management occurs in the local area and to look at mitigating the effects of tourists only after building community capacity to adaptively manage tourism in their area. Communities need a sense of control over their world, and this is only undermined when experts and institutions try to advise courses of action without involving a range of community players in the process of managing tourism. Thus, government and other organisations and institutions at local level must focus on working with communities to build local capacity to manage tourism, without imposing on those communities to convince them to 'treat tourists well' or to manage their environment better, so they become more attractive as a destination. Keywords: qualitative methods, complexity theory, chaos theory, systems, tourism, community, perceptions, social impacts, community development, reflexivity, perceptions of control, adaptation. ii Acknowledgements I have had the privilege to be surrounded by some wonderrul people throughout the course of this PhD. The names that follow are but a few of the major contributors. First and foremost, thank you to the people in Rotorua and Kaikoura who gave me their time in the form of conversation and interviews. Without you, this thesis could not have been completed. Thank you to David Simmons without whom the project, of which this PhD was a part, would never have happened. I feel privileged to have been able to work in such a collaborative environment with such a good person out front. Thank you, too, for all the supervisory work over the years. Tracy Berno was a great supervisor while I had her and an inspiration in whose footsteps I will never be able to follow. Kevin Moore was the best possible supervisor I could have for the writing of this thesis, and has provided excellent conversation and insights for the entire process of this research. Thank you also to Karen who has contributed more than I suspect she realises to my thinking. Thank you to John Fairweather, who made me think about where I stood and why, and who was a helpful guide, particularly in the early stages of this research. Thank you to Tussock, Andrea, David F., Rachel, Trudy, Matthias, John, Simon, Deb, Jude, Lucy, Gail and Grania for all your support, conversation, wit and feedback over the time it has taken me to complete this PhD. Thank you to all the Landcare Research people who have stopped by over the last year. I've particularly been encouraged by Linda Lilburne and Helen Harman! Thank you, Lucy, & Jude, who waded their way through a full draft of this thesis and gave me really useful and insightful feedback. Thank you also to Margaret and Will who also helped with comments, and to Christine Bezar for editorial help at a busy time. To all of you, your time and efforts were very much appreciated. Thank you also to the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, who funded the research phase of the thesis development. iii Table of Contents Abstract .......................................................................................................... i Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... iii Glossary of Terms ....................................................................................... xii Chapter 1: Author's Preface ....................................................................... 1 The Tourist Area Lifecyc1e .............................................................. 4 The Research Process ....................................................................... 6 Self Reflection in Research ................................................ 8 Defining Tourism and Community ................................................ 12 A Complex Systems Perspective .................................................... 13 A Complex Systems Perspective and Thesis Structure .................. 14 Final note ........................................................................................ 19 Chapter 2: Complex systems: a Tool for "Under-Standing" Community"? .............................................................................................. 20 Introduction .................................................................................... 20 Chaos versus complexity .................................................. 22 History of Systems Thinking .......................................................... 22 What are Complex Systems? ......................................................... 25 Complex versus Complicated .......................................... 26 Large number of interacting components ........................ 26 Non-linear interactions ..................................................... 27 Feedback! Recursivity ...................................................... 27 Self-organised criticality, the butterfly effect and catastrophe ................................................................. 28 Emergence and Attractors ................................................ 29 Range of influence ........................................................... 32 Complex systems are open ............................................... 33 History .............................................................................
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