Clustering the Problems of Sustainable Tourism Development in a Destination: Tsaghveri Resort as A Case
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Date
2019
Authors
Khelashvili, Ioseb
Khelashvili, Lela
Khokhobaia, Merab
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Ankara : Ankara Üniversitesi
Abstract
Over the last decades, Tourism has become one of the leading industries in Georgia in terms of generating income,
compensation of the country’s trade deficit and rising employment of local population. However, tourism lacks development
in the mountain region of the country. On-going re-development requires new approaches for the industries’ sustainable
development. The purpose of the study is to apply the method of transdisciplinary research to identify interrelated core
problems hampering sustainable tourism development. The research employed a case study approach. The method was
tested at mountain resort of the Caucasus – Tsaghveri (Borjomi Minicipality). The initial information for the research was
collected from the data received in the course of fieldwork organized by Austrian University BOKU and Ivane Javakhishvili
Tbilisi State University (TSU) in Georgia in July 2018. The study revealed four categories of the destination related
problems: leverage, critical, buffering and restricted. The outcome of analysis serves as preliminary information for the
problem-solving strategy as well as for making decisions on rational development of destinations. The research gave
opportunity to the involved parties to develop skills of participatory research for structuring complex problems.
Key words: Sustainable development, Tourism, Problem solving strategy, Transdisciplinarity, Destination planni
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Sustainable development, Tourism, Problem solving strategy