Government and Tourism: Actions, Impact, and Intersections

This report delves into the intersection of government and the tourism industry, highlighting the increasing role of government in tourism as a mass phenomenon. It explores how local governments invest in infrastructure, manage regulations, and support regional marketing to enhance tourism. The report emphasizes the importance of government decisions on infrastructure, visitor services, and creating an attractive environment for both residents and tourists. It provides examples such as the Jamaican government's efforts to link tourism with commodity production and the Auckland government's significant investments. The report also touches on the varying levels of government intervention in different economic models, referencing relevant literature to support its analysis. Overall, the report provides a comprehensive overview of government's multifaceted impact on tourism, from financial investments to regulatory frameworks.

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Intersection Of Government And Tourism
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The role of government is not limited only to a particular or specific field. Government
has intersected with numerous different non-profit sectors and issues such as health care,
immigration etc in current days. With the passage of time, government has recognized that duties
of the public sector should cover the matters like health, safety, consumer interests, and transport
infrastructures etc. This paper will elaborate on how government has intersected with the tourism
industry, their actions and its overall impact.
The participation of government has increased as tourism has become a mass
phenomenon. For example, the Jamaican government has decided to create and link in between
the tourism with the sectors of commodity production and complementary and other related
services for rejuvenating the tourism industry (Clayton, Karagiannis & Bailey, 2015). The
regional tourism industries have a strong relationship with the local government as the
investments that the local government makes in the tourism industry is very important for its
health and ongoing growth. The destination management plans that are developed in the council,
community and the industry partnerships provide a direction for the tourism industry. With the
same, providing balance between the environmental and social needs of the communities and the
visitors is an on-going process, like for example, the local alcohol policies, regulations of
freedom camping with the inherent challenges and opportunities.
The tourism industry also requires communicating with the councils in order to ensure
that they have right information for making decisions on the infrastructure which will satisfy the
demands of the visitors and the values and expectations of the community. The councils also
support the effective regional marketing that improves brand awareness and delivers stronger
value proposition.

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Moreover, the local government plays an important part in the determination of the
quality and level of the visitor services and the availability of infrastructure along with the events
that takes place and the money of the public that is invested for the promotion of destination
(Vogt et al., 2016). Government invests a lot in the infrastructure like airports, parks, stadium,
ports and gardens and they the responsibility for the cleaning of roads, removal of waste and
sewage and creation of a healthy and safe environment for the community as well as for the
visitors to enjoy. The local government is also a primary investor in the activities of regional
marketing that are often delivered through the i-SITE and RTOs visitor centers.
Government also manages the regulatory environment that influences investment and
tourism development under which the business of tourism operates. For example, it is the duty of
the government across the New Zealand to make sound infrastructure decisions on investment,
administering the fit for purpose regulations and for providing the services that makes the society
an attractive place to live, visit and to invest on. In the year 2012, the annual investment made by
the government across the New Zealand region was 8.4 billion dollars and was maintaining the
asset value of 124.2 billion dollars (Alleyne et al., 2017). The Auckland government is also a
good example of the level of investment it makes in essential services and infrastructure which
directly supports the tourism industry of that region.
Hao, Sheng & Pan (2017), have also argued that though the government intervention is
very important in order to control the influence of fragmented development on the society, it is
also true that the capitalist countries where the private sectors have adopted the laissez-Faire
policy of tourism has very less government intervention.

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References:
Alleyne, D., Charles, D., Hendrickson, M., McLean, S., Pantin, M., & Skerrette, N. (2017).
Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2016-2017.
Clayton, A., Karagiannis, N., & Bailey, J. M. (2015). Sustainable development of Caribbean
tourism. Public Administration and Policy in the Caribbean, 180, 337.
Hao, Y., Sheng, L., & Pan, G. (2017). Public Services: Redefining the Government-Society
Boundary. In Political Economy of Macao since 1999 (pp. 99-146). Palgrave, Singapore.
Vogt, C., Jordan, E., Grewe, N., & Kruger, L. (2016). Collaborative tourism planning and
subjective well-being in a small island destination. Journal of Destination Marketing &
Management, 5(1), 36-43.