Abstract

This research focuses on the enhancement of natural and cultural landscapes to ensure tourism subsequently as an income generating activity in areas with difficulties. Even if in these areas the potential is high and the willingness of officials and other actors is strong to make tourism an activity that can help local population, success is long in coming. This study helps to highlight the importance of territorial governance for sustainable tourism in Tunisia. Territorial governance has become a central issue in tourism development and a challenge for public policy. Thus, the present study is to show how to evaluate territorial governance taking into account the interactions between the resource territory, local development policies and tourism. The integration of territorial governance principles in sustainable tourism development is one of the most important issues of this activity; in the center of several visions and practices of conservation, negotiating dynamics of the specific objectives of each of the concerned actors in ecotourism development seems to be conflicted between environmental and socio-economic concerns and converging and diverging interests.

Highlights

  • Having a great interest in the issue of development of disadvantaged rural areas in Tunisia and based on the observation of the great difficulties that actors face in these areas to set up a development process there, it is proposed through this study to report our thinking on sustainable tourism development in these fragile zones and understand the rules and strategies of the actors involved in the development process and the relationship between the governance and its effect on the degree of specific resources enhancement

  • Tourism is an essential vector of the national economy; Tunisia has a very diverse mosaic of natural and cultural landscapes that has encouraged the emergence of this activity, especially in the coastal areas of the territory

  • 1-Social dimension 1.1-owners originating from the region 1.2-Number of people in charge 1.3-Number of regular employees 1.4-Number of local employees 1.5-Participation in the local life: adherence to a voluntary, cultural, sporting activity 1.6-Customer Diversity 1.7-Pricing: family formula, fidelity discounts 1.8-Customer loyalty: return of tourists 1.9-Personal and sustainable contact with customers 1.10-promotion of sustainable tourism activities 1.11-Promotion and development of the territory

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Introduction

Having a great interest in the issue of development of disadvantaged rural areas in Tunisia and based on the observation of the great difficulties that actors face in these areas to set up a development process there, it is proposed through this study to report our thinking on sustainable tourism development in these fragile zones and understand the rules and strategies of the actors involved in the development process and the relationship between the governance and its effect on the degree of specific resources enhancement This field of analysis is applied to develop the. This isolation has shaped a non-open and non-creative population of development projects faced with endangered resources

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